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
Learning to Self-Advocate, Not to be Confused with Self-Medicate! (Part 1)
Over 30 years ago, I had a slight scare when some of the cells on my cervix came back suspicious in a routine pap test. So I had cryotherapy, in which my abnormal cervical cells were destroyed by freezing with liquid carbon dioxide. The timing of that procedure was a tad inconvenient, though, because a few days later, I moved to a different state, and needed to find a new doctor to follow up on the procedure. Coincidentally, the night before my re-check at the new medical facility, I discovered a small breast lump. I was so relieved that I was going to the doctor the next morning anyway. So when I met the new gynecologist in a less-than- dignified manner, stark naked under a whisper-thin paper gown [...]
Fertile Memories from an Old Fuzzy Picture
When I was 25 years old, I spent an incredible year volunteering on a kibbutz in Israel. You can imagine that back then fertility was the furthest thing from my mind. Instead, I would wake up before dawn, drag myself out of bed and walk in the freezing cold across the kibbutz to the cafeteria, where the only people up at that ungodly hour of 5am were the others who were there to join me on the bumpy tractor ride out to the avocado fields. So after a quick piece of thickly sliced homemade bread and butter, we’d all hop on the flatbed of the tractor, and off we’d bounce for a 10-minute ride out to the fields. The closest I got to the concept of fertility 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.
