Aria, a 27-year-old woman, plans to get married next year but avoid having a baby for at least two years after marriage. She starts monitoring and noting her menstrual cycles for a period of 10 months to determine her longest and shortest menstrual cycles. At the end of 10 months, she calculates her expected fertile period and decides to abstain from engaging in sexual intercourse during this period. In the context of fertility awareness-based methods, identify the method used by Aria in this scenario.

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Aria used the calendar (rhythm) method, which involves tracking the length of menstrual cycles over several months to predict when ovulation is most likely to occur. This method requires abstaining from sex during the fertile period, which is calculated as the period of time around ovulation when a woman is most likely to conceive. The symptothermal method and the cervical mucus method involve tracking changes in body temperature or cervical mucus to identify the fertile period, while the basal body temperature method involves tracking basal body temperature to identify when ovulation has occurred.

Aria, a 27-Year-Old Woman, Plans to Get Married Next Year