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
Two Sides of the Same Menstrual Coin (Part A)
Two of the most common questions women have about their periods and conception are whether it’s possible to get pregnant either (1) during menstruation or (2) without actually having periods altogether. Today I’ll address the issue of whether or not a woman can get pregnant during her period. Surprisingly, in many ways, the answer lies in the wording of the question. More precisely, it’s unlikely that a woman could conceive during her period, but on rare occasions, it’s possible for a woman to get pregnant from intercourse during her period. Huh? Isn’t that the same thing? No, it’s really not. Since sperm can live for up to five days inside a woman, a couple could have sex near the end [...]
Opening a Pandora’s Box
When I first considered writing my book, many of you were still but an egg in your mother’s ovary, email didn’t exist, and the internet was not yet a thing. So back in the early 1990s, I had no idea that what would eventually keep me up nights these days was in many ways far more insidious than what my initial concern was back then: that women would maybe misunderstand concepts in my book, leading to unplanned pregnancies. Today, my fear is even more amplified by a much bigger issue: the pervasiveness of scores of bogus apps, all of which claim to be able to predict a woman’s fertility based on nothing more than inputting the first day of a [...]
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.
