HHP22 | Postpartum & using Fertility Awareness Method for Birth Control with Client Guest Kimberly Parker

Welcome to another episode of The Hormone Heartbeat Podcast! In today’s episode, we are talking everything postpartum from how to navigate your health and the return of your fertility to how you can use the fertility awareness method as your birth control during this phase!

My guest is Kimberly Parker, a mother of 5, ages 8 to 1-year-old. She grew up in central Minnesota in agriculture and her and her husband's harvesting business took lead the to recently settling in Holyoke, Colorado. As the daughter of a dairy farmer, Kimberly has a strong love for agriculture and nutrition. She believes families need to know they have lots of options for their health. She believes through the power of whole food nutrition one can change what society claims as normal. Her experiences led her to want to help families, women, and men with Juice Plus, which is simply a high powdered vine-ripened produce in a capsule!

In today's episode

• Introduction from Kimberly Parker and what lead her to Fertility Awareness Methods after being pregnant with her 5th baby
• Experience with previous Fertility Awareness methods, before finding the Justisse Method
• Pros and cons to self-teaching a fertility awareness-based method
• FAM is not just for babies but for women’s health
• Overcoming the challenges of postpartum charting and using FAM
• Understanding your fertility postpartum and during breastfeeding
• Creating time for FAM as a busy mom
• Difference between using an app to track cycles and learning a FAM
• Why fertility awareness apps are not effective at knowing when a woman ovulates
• How the Justisse Method affects your relationship with your partner
• Managing abstinence with FAM
• Postpartum nutrition and charting
• Stress and charting
• Advice for other postpartum moms about FAM
• Talking to your daughter about charting

Connect with guest: Kimberly Parker

Instagram: @Kimberhealthylife & Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kimberly.malechaparker

Interested in knowing more about Juice Plus: www.juiceplus.kparker.com

Connect with host: Dr. Antoinette Falco, ND

Download your copy of Antoinette's Post-pill Guidebook. Website: www.antoinettefalco.com. Instagram: @drantoinettefalco

Please send all inquiries and suggestions, including topics you'd like to see covered on the podcast to thehormoneheartbeatpodcast@gmail.com, If you'd like to be a guest on the show and you think you'd be a good fit, please reach out!