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
A New Take on Basal Temperatures: Seeing the Forest Through the Trees
When interpreting temperatures, you’ll want to train your eyes to “see the forest through the trees.” The key to doing so is to look for a pattern of lows and highs. In other words, you’ll find that your temperatures before ovulation will go up and down in a low range, and the temperatures after ovulation will go up and down in a high range. The trick is to see the whole, and not focus so much on the day-to-day changes. I learned how helpful this concept is when I first taught at a women’s clinic. Within a few weeks of the first class, I would inevitably start getting calls from clients who were convinced they must not be ovulating. But [...]
Five Mind-Bending Fertility Myths
Orgasms cause women to release eggs. This is an especially intriguing myth — that orgasm can lead to spontaneous ovulation. But alas, it’s completely false. The process that leads to ovulation is the gradual increase of estrogen over a period of several days. Now I suppose if you had an orgasm that lasted from, say, Monday to Friday, you might be able to instigate the release of an egg. But by that point you might be too exhausted to care. A woman can spontaneously ovulate at any time in the cycle. This is the other side of the orgasm coin! Even though the timing of ovulation can vary from cycle to cycle, once a woman ovulates, it is virtually impossible [...]
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.
