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By Chris Jones | Published: June 24, 2008    Comment on this article Leave a comment

When Dr. Mary Martin talks to patients about the Billings Ovulation Method, many are skeptical.

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Dr. Mary Martin, who specializes in obstetrics, gynecology and infertility answers the most frequently asked questions about the Billings Ovulation Method.

•How effective is the Billings Method?

80 percent worldwide.

•Do I have to take my temperature?

No, this method was discontinued in 1963, because there are too many variables.

•How do I know which discharge is fertile?

It is based on a changing or unchanging pattern, and not on the characteristics such as color or the quantity.

•How long will it take to conceive?

Failure to conceive is based on three fertile cycles. Not all cycles are fertile cycles.

•How is it determined if the spouse has a problem?

The husband can be referred to a urologist for a workup, or a post-coital test can be done during the fertile phase. The fertile phase is not based on the calendar date.

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Martin, who specializes in obstetrics, gynecology and infertility, is on staff at St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City. She advocates the natural form of family planning developed by John Billings, an Australian neurologist who developed a natural contraception method endorsed by the Roman Catholic Church.

Billings, who died in 2007, was married to pediatrician Dr. Evelyn Billings. He began studying natural contraceptive techniques in 1953 at the request of the Catholic Marriage Bureau in Melbourne. The couple created the Billings Method. The method relies on a woman's ability to sense changes in the amount and texture of her cervical mucus, which helps predict ovulation and fertility.

Jennifer Daly, 29, experienced years of painful health problems due to endometriosis beginning in her teen years. When she married, she and her husband discussed adoption, because her doctor recommended a hysterectomy. She took a risk with her health and finances and went through an in-vitro fertilization process with a 52 percent chance of success.

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