Dear DesiringBoth,

Your desire to space your children under the circumstances is fine. You are correct in stating that contraception is not a moral option."Pulling out to spill one's seed elsewhere other than one's wife reproductive tract is a form of contraception and is also an act that violates natural law and conjugal love.

I have two things to add. There are several different methods of Natural Family Planning, not one. There is:

• the Billings method
• the Creighton model
• the Sympto-thermal method, and
• the Marqutte method, to name a few.

Every couple seeking to legitimately space children should look into whichever one may be best for them. They can be very effective if done right. Also, when a woman is regularly breast feeding a baby, there is a hormone in her body that often disables another pregnancy from occurring in the sexually active couple. It may not be foolproof, but this is nature's way of spacing children and why women that regularly breast feed rarely have children within three years of each other.

For more in depth information go to https://www.popepaulvi.com.

Peace,

Paul

No problem.

Thanks for writing.

Paul