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
When the Birds and the Bees Take On A Whole New Meaning
If you’ve ever written a book, you know that it can be one of the most challenging, exasperating, and frustrating experiences. And those are the positive aspects of such an undertaking! So after my first book was released, I thought, why not write another book? Won’t that be fun. So one day well into year two of working on my book for teens entitled Cycle Savvy, a bee (nay, wasp) landed on my computer as I was working on the manuscript. No problem. I’m a big girl. I can handle it. Grab a piece of cardboard and a jar, capture said wasp, open the window and let it fly free to be with its family. An hour later, as I’m continuing to work on the book, another [...]
Every Day or Every Other Day — The Perennial Question
One of the most common questions women desiring pregnancy ask me is whether they should have sex every day or every other day. If you are charting, you know that there are only a few days per cycle in which you can even get pregnant. (Actually, if truth be told, even if you aren’t charting your cycles, there are still only a few days in which you can conceive!) Regardless, the days that you should have intercourse will be a function of your combined fertility. A woman will generally have fertile cervical fluid for several days. The most obvious and ideal type is usually clear, slippery and often stretchy, like raw eggwhite. If your partner’s sperm count is normal, you should have sex every day, but if it is [...]
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.
