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
What Does A Boy With A Hammer Have To Do With Fertility?
The conventional wisdom is that a couple should wait to see a doctor until they’ve tried to conceive for a full year. But is that really the best advice? If you’re familiar with my teachings, you already know where I’m going with this. The answer is a resounding NO! For one thing, if a woman knows how to chart her cycles with the Fertility Awareness Method, and therefore knows when to time intercourse perfectly or is able to quickly discern that she may have a problem with her cycles, she needn’t waste time by postponing treatment for a full year. And for those who don’t chart their cycles, they may be unwittingly misled to believe they have a fertility issue. [...]
Don’t Get Me Started
When I was a young teenager (about a decade ago, give or take 50 years), I remember the constant assault to my self-esteem from the onslaught of ads for douches. Obviously, I hadn’t yet developed the confidence to question the veracity of such ads. In reality, I wish someone would have told me that our healthy vaginas were never designed to smell like a bouquet of gardenias or a field of wild lilacs. Is it any wonder that women grow up believing they are dirty all the time and in need of douching and spraying away the “discharge”? The continual advertising of douches and feminine sprays only acts to reinforce the confusion between healthy cervical fluid and what is in [...]
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.
