A Message from Toni Weschler
Welcome to TCOYF.com, the official companion site of my book, Taking Charge of Your Fertility. Here you’ll have access to a full-featured charting app, our vibrant TTC community, informative articles, and helpful tips and interesting tangents like the one below from yours truly!
Toni's Tips and Tangents
The Mysterious Russian Translation of TCOYF Updated
When my book was first released back in 1995, email was barely a blip on the horizon, so the only feedback I initially got came in the form of handwritten letters overflowing my stuffed PO Box at the local post office. One of the letters I received had a Russian return address. It was from one of my readers who basically just wanted to thank me for writing Taking Charge, since she said she was now happily practicing FAM. I was pretty impressed that someone whose first language wasn’t English could understand all of the complexities of the medical terminology. So I wrote her back, complementing her on her incredible English, and asked her out of curiosity if she had [...]
A Fascinating Epiphany in the time of Covid
I had an amazing realization a couple days ago. But before I tell you about it, let me set the Fertility 101 stage, as it were: A baby girl emerges from her mother’s womb with all the eggs she will ever have, already residing in her tiny ovaries. Baby boys, on the other hand, don’t start producing sperm (the analog to the female egg) inside their testes until they reach puberty, about 12 years later. So what does this have to do with every human walking this earth? The answer will probably challenge every notion you’ve ever had about where we all came from. In reality, every single one of us actually started out inside our maternal grandmother. In other [...]
Taking Charge of Your Fertility
Are you unhappy with your current method of birth control? Or are you demoralized by your quest to have a baby? Do you also experience confusing signs and symptoms at various times in your cycle, but are frustrated by a lack of simple explanations?
This invaluable resource will help you find the answer to your questions while giving you amazing insights into your own body.
