# @hortonlane_ on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C-JXm0wSbI7
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/38133111-hortonlane-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-08-01T23:59:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chrissy Horton (@hortonlane_) — https://gondola.cc/hortonlane_

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I recorded this when I was 7 months pregnant with baby # 6 and was too scared to share at that time, but feel called to share now 🤗❤️This is an incredibly personal story. In no way is this a lecture in how others should live. I am simply just sharing MY journey with my wonderful community who were interested. ❤️

Now whenever I share this story people inevitably ask, “How is NFP any different than birth control when used to prevent pregnancy?” It’s a very valid question and I would like to direct you to what Catholic Answers had to say about it. They articulate it much better than I. ⬇️

“Look at it this way: contracepting couples and NFP couples, intend the same thing: to avoid pregnancy. But they accomplish this in two vastly divergent ways. One—NFP—respects and tampers not in the least with the natural procreative ordering of the sexual act, whereas the other (contraception) directly inhibits and violates the natural procreative ordering of the act. 

NFP is merely non-procreative, since it avoids pregnancy as a result of circumstance (the circumstance of the sexual act occurring during the natural period of infertility of the woman’s menstrual cycle); whereas contraception is positively anti-procreative, as it changes the sexual act in kind by removing its procreative dimension-that is, by sterilizing it.

 If erasing the sexual act’s procreative design is the object of contraception, the object of NFP, by contrast, fully respects-leaves untouched-the procreative design of the act.”

I am not here telling anyone how to live their lives nor am judging how others plan their families. I am simply sharing what I do since my whole platform is sharing my personal experiences as a mother. I make no judgments on how others plan their families so I ask that you spare the judgement on how I plan mine ❤️

#bigfamilylife #nfp #catholicfamily #catholicmarriage #pregnancylife #honestmomconfessions 

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