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 Suspicious Russian Tale of a Different Kind
When my book was first released 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 maybe lived in the UK or the States [...]
The Elephant in the Womb: A Woman’s Aging Eggs (Part 2)
It would be fabulous if there were an easy way to count the remaining eggs in your ovary, in much the same way that you could open a carton of eggs from the refrigerator and count how many good ones remain. Alas, there isn’t, but there are several tests that, along with your age, offer the best tools currently available to estimate your remaining pool of viable eggs. Unfortunately, none of the tests is ideal, and there is no consensus among physicians as to which are the best. However, there is general agreement that a woman’s increasing age will affect the quality of her eggs, and that she should have at least two or three different tests done to get a better indication of the number of [...]
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.
