Early Signs that You May be Pregnant Based on Charting Alone

One of my favorite letters to receive are from women who were able to tell they were pregnant just by charting alone, even before a pregnancy test confirmed it. One of the first signs that many women who chart will notice is implantation spotting, a type of light bleeding that occurs when the fertilized egg [...]

By |2023-03-02T11:00:55-08:00March 2nd, 2023|Front Page, Tips|7 Comments

When to Trust Your Gut

We as women are so used to experiencing various types of pains and discomforts during our cycles that we may lose sight of what is normal versus what merits seeing a health practitioner. Of course, the benefit of learning about Fertility Awareness and charting your cycle is that you become acutely aware of what signs [...]

By |2022-06-16T15:03:21-07:00June 16th, 2022|Front Page, Tips|2 Comments

The Elephant in the Bedroom (Revisited)

It probably comes as no surprise that many couples are sexually incompatible, but often, the reason could be so easily remedied if people just understood basic physiology. If you were a fly on the wall in bedrooms throughout the world, you’d be stunned to see how many women fake orgasms, even with men who they’ve [...]

By |2022-01-18T10:11:24-08:00January 18th, 2022|Front Page, Tips|0 Comments

The Ideal Time to Try to Conceive Each Cycle

Remember the days when you’d meet a stranger at a social event and one of the first questions you’d usually ask each other is along the lines of “And what do you do?” Who am I kidding? I don’t either. The pandemic has ended any semblance of normalcy for all of us. But stay with [...]

By |2021-12-02T12:26:50-08:00December 2nd, 2021|Front Page, Tips|0 Comments

A Little Tidbit to Spice up Your Next Zoom Meeting

So what if I told you that a woman carrying twins can look down at her belly and know that she is carrying the actual physical cells of half of her future grandchildren? First of all, how is that even possible? And more specifically, if it is possible, why only half? I’ll give you a [...]

By |2021-10-29T14:49:53-07:00October 28th, 2021|Front Page, Tips|0 Comments

The Missing Piece of the Menstrual Puzzle

Can a woman get pregnant if she isn’t menstruating? Or another way of putting it is: Can a woman assume she doesn’t need to use birth control if she isn’t having periods? The answer is not as intuitive as you’d think. On the surface, any fairly educated person might think “Of course she can’t get [...]

By |2021-07-22T12:37:06-07:00July 20th, 2021|Front Page, Tips|0 Comments

Sigh . . . here we go again.

I recently received yet another inquiry from a woman asking me about one of the scores of fertility apps currently flooding the internet. While I find most of the apps concerning, one in particular worries me the most. The developers claim it is the first FDA-approved birth control app that purports to tell you when [...]

By |2021-06-22T08:39:15-07:00June 17th, 2021|Front Page, Tips|5 Comments

When Charting Leads to a Surprising Diagnosis

I received an amazing email from one of my readers in the UK recently that reminded me yet again about the extraordinary benefits of charting menstrual cycles. Several years ago, she had had a couple of miscarriages, with the last one ending in a dilation and curettage (D&C), a procedure in which the woman’s cervix [...]

By |2021-04-21T09:10:23-07:00April 21st, 2021|Front Page, Tips|1 Comment

Why Women Often Think They May Be Pregnant When They Aren’t

There’s a cruel irony in the fact that the majority of women have at one time or another probably experienced mild panic when their period was even just a few days late, only to discover years later that they would do anything to actually get pregnant. But both situations are really two sides of the [...]

By |2021-03-22T10:50:50-07:00March 22nd, 2021|Front Page, Tips|2 Comments

Fake. Fake. Fake. Fake.

If you are a Seinfeld fanatic like me, just reading those four words above probably elicited an immediate chuckle of recognition. And if you’re not? Just google it. At any rate, one of the hardest things for some women to reckon with is that they’ve never had an orgasm, or they often assume that they [...]

By |2021-02-08T15:25:20-08:00February 8th, 2021|Front Page, Tips|0 Comments
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