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Hi I'm Gabby!

Roots of Reproduction is the go-to resource for understanding fertility awareness and reproductive health in a simple, comprehensive way.

Our mission is to make fertility awareness simple, clear, and accessible for everyone, no matter where you are on your journey. By learning the basics of how your body works, you can make informed, confident decisions about your reproductive health.

Whether you’re looking to learn how to chart your cycle, improve your hormonal health, or just get more in tune with your body, you're in the right place.

Thank you for being here—let’s start this journey together!

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What You'll Find Here

Fertility Awareness Basics: Learn the fundamentals of charting your menstrual cycle, recognizing signs of fertility, and understanding how your hormones work.

Practical Guides: Step-by-step tutorials, tips, and tools to help you apply fertility awareness in your daily life, whether for health, contraception, or conception.

Inclusive Health Information: Our content is designed for everyone, no matter your age, background, or life stage. Here we believe that fertility awareness is for every body.

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Key Terms Used On This Site

  • Body Literacy: Living a life that integrates an intellectual knowledge of the body with a kinesthetic awareness and experience of it.
  • Puberty: The process of physical maturation where an adolescent reaches sexual maturity and becomes capable of reproduction; on average begins in females from ages 8 and 13 and in males from 9 and 14 (NIH).
  • Menstrual Health: A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in relation to the menstrual cycle (NIH).
  • Reproductive Health: A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and to its function and processes (World Health Org).
  • Sexual Health: Requires a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relationships with the possibility of having pleasurable and safe sexual experiences, free of coercion, discrimination and violence (World Health Org).
  • Reproductive Justice: The human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities (Sister Song).
  • Fertility Awareness: Body Literacy specific to the sexual and reproductive system. A lifestyle and body of knowledge that revolves around awareness of our hormonal cycle, fertility and sexuality.
  • Cycle Charting: The daily practice of observing and recording our fertility bio-markers, including the first day and duration of period, the total length of our menstrual cycle and any menstrual symptoms.
  • Fertility Awareness Method: A daily cycle charting practice that involves observation of fertility bio-markers and other signs of health.
  • Fertility Awareness Based Methods: An umbrella term encompassing all variations of cycle charting practices available.
  • Natural Family Planning: A term generally associated with religious variations of cycle tracking practices.
  • Sympto-Thermal Method: An FABM based on daily observations of our cervical fluid and basal body temperature.

*Please note some of these terms are defined by Sarah Bly of The Well School of Body Literacy. You can read her definitions here.*

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