you can pry my technology from my cold dead hands 😂 I use a Tempdrop. I chart my cycle in an app. I LOVE anything that makes fertility awareness easier. BUT when I decided to learn fertility awareness, I didn't want to come off hormonal birth control… only to become completely dependent on anoth

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let me spill the tea: 1. I never relied on a period tracker’s algorithm to tell me when I was fertile or not. They are historically inaccurate and instead tracked my own ovulation signs. 2. Instead of tracking ovulation, I CHART ovulation using an evidence based fam method. Tracking is fine f

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There is a whoooooole lot of life that can happen between “I don't want to be on birth control anymore” and “okay, let's have a baby” And if you're currently DEEPLY in that weird little reproductive in-between stage… hiiiii 👋 On September 3rd, I'm teaching a f r e e Body-Based Birth Control

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After 6 years of using FAM as birth control + 3 years teaching it, I’ve realized that confidently using FAM comes down to four different skills: 🧠 UNDERSTAND: Do you actually understand how ovulation + the fertile window work, why their timing can change + what your biomarkers can (and CAN’T) te

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For centuries, we’ve described reproduction through a gendered lens that makes the male reproductive system the hero. Millions of sperm line up at the starting line, race toward the egg, overcome impossible odds and, eventually the strongest sperm wins. It penetrates and It fertilizes the egg. IT W

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1. YOU LET AN APP DECIDE WHEN YOU’RE FERTILE You might log your period, cervical mucus, temperatures + all sorts of other data… but at the end of the day, you’re still looking at your app’s predicted fertile window to decide when pregnancy is possible. FAM has nothing to do with predicting wh

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1. YOU LET AN APP DECIDE WHEN YOU’RE FERTILE You might log your period, cervical mucus, temperatures + all sorts of other data… but at the end of the day, you’re still looking at your app’s predicted fertile window to decide when pregnancy is possible. FAM has nothing to do with predicting wh

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Because tracking your cycle + actually knowing how to use that information as birth control are two VERY different things... → maybe you downloaded a period app and started paying more attention to when your period comes. → maybe you’ve started noticing cervical mucus or taking your temperatu

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specifically the girlies who… → want kids someday… but would be absolutely HORRIFIED if “someday” meant 9 months from now → are engaged, newly married or in a long-term relationship and love their partner dearly… but are VERY confident that eventually ≠ right freakin’ now → want off hormo

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Because for YEARS, if my app said my period was supposed to come on Tuesday and Tuesday came and went with no period… I thought my period was late. … which meant my brain immediately went: cool cool cool, so obviously I’m pregnant even if there was literally no reason to think I was. Except

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turns out knowing what the heck is going on in your own body is actually very chic!!! 💅🏻 and IMO it’s even MORE chic to talk loudly about all the TMI + “taboo” sh*t we’ve been taught to hide in the face of patriarchal systems that have spent centuries shaming us for simply existing in menstruating

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I know that sounds crazy but let me explain!!! Your period app? Can’t tell you the exact day you’ve ovulated. Your most slippery, stretchy, egg whitey cervical mucus? doesn’t tell you the exact day. That suspicious little twinge coming from the general vicinity of your left ovary? can happ

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ah that canon moment when you come off birth control for the first time since you were a literal teenager and realize you have nooooo idea how your body works… I can guarantee that you are in two camps: 1. you are thinking of conceiving in the next couple of years and want your cycle to regulate

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I've successfully used fertility awareness as birth control for six years, and I still remember what an absolute mind f*ck it was to go from trusting the pill... to trusting my own body. When I first came off hormonal birth control, I knew two things: → I didn't want to be on the pill anymor

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I swear... every time I fall down another women's health rabbit hole, I end up asking myself the same question: How much did patriarchal ideas shape the science we have today? For example: For centuries, women were taught that menstrual blood was dirty, impure, disgusting and something to hid

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because newsflash!! You can believe in reproductive rights and access to birth control and still decide that fertility awareness is the right choice for YOUR body. Annnddd lucky for you, you’ve found a community of women who practice FAM from an evidence based, secular approach. On this page,

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I’ve also been teaching women how to chart ovulation for birth control (FAM) with a 100% success rate for four years and here are some things that genuinely surprise people: 1. pregnancy is only really possible for 5-6 days per cycle aka your fertile window… but if you’re not using fertility aw

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I can’t be the only one who learned to put a condom on a banana BEFORE I learned that my cycle was more than just my period… is that normal?! Who else had the same experience!? TOO many of us were left to figure out our menstual health on our own, which is exactly why @hellomiracare’s new campai

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There is this really weird stage of life that nobody prepares you for... You're in a loving relationship, maybe you're recently married, and you're ready to come off hormonal birth control because you want to understand your body, let your cycle regulate BUT you are also definitely NOT ready for

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Can we talk about the fact that thousands of women got their periods twice or skipped their period twice in June!??! I have thoughts: Is it a global conspiracy / phenomenon caused by frequency changes, the stars or a government attack…. or or just…. normal cycle variation and confirmation bias and

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Cait | fam educator