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Press Release
THE BILLINGS METHOD Using the body’s natural signal of fertility to achieve or avoid pregnancy Dr Evelyn Billings & Ann Westmore
NEW EDITION ‘A Natural Success - more than a million copies sold’ Since it was first published in 1980, The Billings Method: Using the body’s natural signal of fertility to achieve or avoid pregnancy has become a classic health book for women. Worldwide, it has sold more than a million copies in 22 languages. It is estimated that more than 50 million couples worldwide use the Method, across all cultural boundaries. Melbourne doctors, Evelyn and John Billings met over a dead body while they were studying anatomy as young medical students. She went on to study paediatrics and he neurology. In the 1960s they became interested in looking for a natural alternative to the notoriously unreliable Rhythm Method and discovered the Billings Method. The Billings Method itself has been hailed as ‘Knowledge that every woman ought to have’. This book is an invaluable guide in that knowledge. It explains - clearly and simply - how a woman can observe her body’s own natural signals of fertility and use that knowledge to achieve or avoid pregnancy. It also taps into the ever-increasing demand by women for natural ways of dealing with issues of health and contraception. Dr Billings was fascinated to learn that the Billings Method - observing changes in a woman’s mucus as a signal of when she is fertile - is actually ancient knowledge that we had lost. She discovered that this method of contraception was taught by grandmother to grand-daughter in some African tribes, and was also known to some Aboriginal people. Dr Billings is internationally renowned for her work and the Billings Method has proved particularly invaluable in Third World countries. In these countries, where birth control is a critical, and even live-threatening issue, this natural method is widely taught and practised, with excellent results. Dr Billings travels overseas regularly and visits China several times a year at the invitation of the Chinese government to teach the method. An unexpected bonus has been its success for Western couples wanting to conceive, as it pinpoints precisely the time of ovulation. Twenty years on from its original publication, The Billings Method is as relevant today as it was on publication.
Dr Evelyn Billings is available for interview and talkback .Contact: Billings Family Life Centre, 27 Alexandra Parade, North Fitzroy, VIC 3068 Australia Phone: International +61 3 9481 1722 Fax: International +61 3 9482 4208 E-mail: contact Website: http://www.woomb.org
Published by Anne O’Donovan Pty. Ltd., Level 1, 171 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, 3000, Australia, November 2000. World renowned endocrinologist Professor-Emeritus James B. Brown publishes definitive article on ovarian activity, fertility and the Billings Ovulation Method 16 August, 2000: Professor-Emeritus James B. Brown’s new publication Studies on Human Reproduction - Ovarian Activity and Fertility and the Billings Ovulation Method is now available in both hard copy and on the WOOMB International website at http://www.woomb.org/. James Brown was involved in practically every major development in human reproduction since the 1940s until his retirement in 1985. He collaborated with Drs Evelyn and John Billings, who developed the Billings Ovulation Method, in the verification of the reliability of their method of natural family planning. Professor Brown believes that “achieving the full potential of natural family planning is the greatest research challenge in human reproduction today and that the Billings Ovulation Method is the nearest to achieving this aim”. The Drs Billings say in the Foreword of the publication ”It is an example of Professor Brown’s unique contribution to the protection and restoration of women’s health” . Contact information: Billings Family Life Centre, 27 Alexandra Pde, North Fitzroy VIC 3068 Australia. Fax: +61 3 9482 4208. Professor-Emeritus James B. Brown, MSc, PhD, DSc, FRACOG, Studies on Human Reproduction - Ovarian Activity and Fertility and the Billings Ovulation Method, OMR&RCA, Melbourne, July 2000. http://www.woomb.org/bom/science/ovarian.shtml
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