Lexie Sawonik, FCP

Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System (CrMS) is a safe and natural way of family planning. It requires no drugs, no surgery, and involves no artificial products or devices. It works by external body observations by the woman to determine fertile and infertile days. By planning around these observations, the couple can determine the times to achieve or avoid pregnancy. CrMS should not be confused with the calendar Rhythm Method, which is based on a woman’s past monthly cycle lengths and cannot account for irregularities. CrMS, however, determines fertility on a day-by-day basis.

The daily observations are independent of the woman’s cycles, so CrMS can be used successfully after childbirth, during breastfeeding, and also during irregular, long, or short cycles and all the way through menopause.

Every woman has the right to know how her cycles function in order to understand the way her body works.

The CrMS is also the basis for the new women's health science, NaProTECHNOLOGY (natural procreative technology).

The Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System (CrMS) is a standardized modification of the Billings Ovulation Method.  It is built on research, education and service (the “triangle of support” for the CrMS user) and is an integrated educational system designed to assure the highest quality service delivery possible for the FertilityCare™ Educator, Practitioner and the client couple. 

Research leading to the development of the Creighton Model System began in 1976 and the system was first fully described in 1980.  The research on this system has continued up until the present day and it has an extraordinary degree of scientific understanding and validity.  

In the CrMS, fertility is observed as a part of health, not disease.  It is a system that is specifically not a natural contraceptive.  Rather, it is a true method of family planning and can be used in two ways, to achieve, as well as, avoid pregnancy.  These principles make this system distinctly different from contraception, artificial or natural.

The CrMS is based upon a couple’s knowledge and understanding of their naturally-occurring phases of fertility and infertility.  Through this understanding, the couple is able to make decisions (choices) regarding the achievement or avoidance of pregnancy.  This system provides information which deals with the complete dimension of the procreative ability.  In addition, it provides women the added benefit of being able to monitor and maintain their procreative and gynecologic health over a lifetime.  It is truly the only family planning system which has networked family planning with gynecologic and procreative healthcare and health maintenance.  The teachers of the CrMS are trained allied health professionals and specifically-trained physicians have been educated to incorporate the CrMS into their medical practice.