Fertility Monitors and NFP

Natural Family Planning (NFP) is a method of monitoring symptoms in a woman’s body to determine the best time for intercourse to either achieve or avoid a pregnancy. Natural Family Planning is typically presented as a natural alternative to medical birth control methods, and NFP advocates often claim that your body produces all the information you need to monitor your fertility without assistance.

In practice, however, many of these symptoms are either hard to monitor or give uncertain results. With a Zetek fertility monitor, a couple can identify precisely which days the woman can or can not conceive.

Zetek fertility monitors are sold and approved by the FDA only as an aid to conception. Zetek plans to seek FDA approval for contraceptive use of its devices, based on promising research such as this scientific study done at Marquette University.

If you do plan to use the monitor for Natural Family Planning, please consider the following items:

1. You must be spontaneously ovulating. The monitor will NOT identify the fertile phase of your cycle if you are not ovulating.
2. Use of the vaginal sensor will result in more accurate results.
3. The OvaCue is not approved as a contraceptive device. Zetek is able to provide Customer Support regarding the use of the monitor only as a conceptive device.
4. Continuation of previous NFP observations is recommended for at least the first two cycles using the OvaCue.