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NEWS UPDATE -
July, 2010A new soon to be published study on infertility gives hope to many having difficulties conceiving. It appears that 65% of those couples labelled sub-fertile conceive through use of the Billings Ovulation Method.
YOUTUBE VIDEO on the Billings Method - BOMA USA conference in Oklahoma City, November 2009. Go to google search engine and enter "Billings ovulation method, youtube". Duration: 10 mins.
NEW BILLINGS LIFE WEBSITE is up and running. Feedback is required in order to create the best possible site.
James B. Brown, longtime friend and associate of Drs. John and Evelyn Billings died in November, 2009
Vale James B. Brown - by Dr. Evelyn Billings
The Billings Ovulation Method movie that featured on Compass, Australian television can be viewed on Youtube. It is in three parts and is excellent. Another nine minute movie about the BOM and the research of Professor J.B. Brown and Professor Erik Odeblad (emeritus) can also be found on YouTube.
"Australian Doctor" article - This is an excellent comprehensive insert about the Billings Ovulation Method and is available on the Billings Life or WOOMB.org website
USA Oklahoma, November, 2009 - Dr. Mary Martin launched the Billings Center of Fertility and Reproductive Medicine
with the goal of educating medical professionals on the Billings Ovulation Method and its clinical application.
"The family medicine residency program here is extremely rigorous and has several attending physicians who do not prescribe contraception, so the Billings Ovulation Method has caught on rather quickly with the residents and students who come here to train," Dr. Martin said. The new center will also be available to ob/gyn residents for learning about the Billings Method. She said the idea was inspired, in part, to being frequently asked if there was a place where medical people could learn the clinical aspects of the Billings Method. For further information: visit: BOMA USA
RESPONSE OF OMR&RCA (OVULATION METHOD RESEARCH AND REFERENCE CENTRE OF AUSTRALIA INC.) TO THE SASKATCHEWAN UNIVERSITY STUDY ON OVULATION (ROGER PIERSON Ph.D)
Comment by: Professor-Emeritus James B. Brown, M.Sc. Ph.D. D.Sc. F.R.A.C.O.G. Re: "A new model for ovarian follicular development during the human menstrual cycle", Fertility Sterility, July 6, 2003
Waves of anovulatory ovarian activity as described by the Saskatchewan study were documented by hormone assays and published in the scientific literature during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Their existence has been known to the Billings Ovulation Method for more than 40 years and rules have been developed to allow for it.
The woman observes patches of mucus associated with each wave of follicular activity and is taught to distinguish these patches from true ovulation, which is associated with a more definite increasing mucus pattern followed by the Peak symptom. This distinction is important because confusion between the two events could lead to mistakes in timing ovulation and this applies both to the avoidance and achievement of pregnancy.
Thus, the facts revealed in the Saskatchewan study are absolutely correct, we are grateful to the authors for reminding the world that the waves exist and we ask them to continue with their studies. There are more interesting phenomena to discover.
However, their interpretation that their findings indicate that fertile ovulations can occur more than once on different days during the menstrual cycle is grossly in error. From observing the millions of women using natural methods of family planning and from the daily study of approximately 10,000 ovarian cycles in a large spectrum of women we can state that once ovulation has occurred another ovulation cannot occur in the interval to the next menstrual bleed.
The Saskatchewan study confirmed this in that all the women released only one egg during the study cycle and the only two who appeared to ovulate more than once had abnormal (infertile) cycles. This is also our experience. The problem is to define the day of ovulation correctly and it should be stated that conception could not occur in such abnormal cycles and that they are an important cause of infertility.
The emphasis in the report on the assumed possibility that more than
one fertile ovulation can occur on different days during a menstrual
cycle reflects the unwarranted hostility of the authors, the Journal
and the current official opinion to natural family planning. It also
demonstrates that preconceived ideas obtained from assisted
reproduction technology applied to infertile women are poor indicators
of normal reproductive mechanisms compared with the study of normally
fertile women using natural family planning.
Reference: The Continuum
