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
The Elephant in the Womb: A Woman’s Aging Eggs (Part 1)
OK, to be geographically correct, the ovaries containing a woman’s eggs are outside of her uterus, but for purposes of the title, are we kumbaya with me taking some slight artistic liberties? At any rate, one of the first questions a fertility doctor inevitably asks is your age. This is because it’s still one of the best indicators of your ovarian reserve — the quantity and, to some extent, the viability of your ovaries’ egg supply. If the quantity itself is low, it’s usually called a decreased or diminished ovarian reserve. Ultimately, of course, what you really want to know is the quantity and quality of your eggs, in addition to how well your ovaries will respond if you’re going to use assisted reproductive technologies such as [...]
One of My Greatest Regrets
It’s only natural that once people pass over the 50-year milestone, they start the requisite soul-searching that accompanies such a birthday. I must be a little delayed in that department, because here I am, in my late 50’s — OK, 61 to be exact — and it’s only now that I’ve started the process. Do I regret all the Haagen-Dazs coffee ice cream I’ve eaten that may ultimately lead to my dying sooner than others who have denied themselves such pleasures? Heck, no. Why live if you can’t enjoy great food? Do I regret daily walking rather than jogging for exercise? Absolutely not. Well, OK, maybe just a wee bit. But what I do regret is that I never went back to thank . . . nay, [...]
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.
