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 Biology (But Not Wisdom) Behind Old Men Fathering Babies
There are basically three differences between men and women’s fertility, though God only knows how many other types of differences there are (we’ll just have to save that for another blog). For starters, boys aren’t born with any sperm at all. They only start producing them when they reach puberty. Girls, on the other hand, are born with all the eggs they will ever have, but don’t start releasing them until puberty. In addition, men are fertile all the time, since they produce millions of sperm on a daily basis, whereas women are fertile only a few days per cycle since an egg is basically released only once a cycle. In a vacuum, we’d say that a woman is therefore only fertile one day per cycle, which is [...]
The Book Proposal of a Neophyte
I certainly never set out to write a 500+ page book on women’s reproductive health over 20 years ago. Frankly, I would just as soon sit around eating bon bons and reading People Magazine. Well, OK, maybe that’s a slight exaggeration. But I felt I really had no choice after the zillionth passionate student in my Fertility Awareness classes in Seattle asked me why this invaluable information wasn’t available throughout the country. Now mind you, this was about five years before my book was published, and, gasp, there was no internet back then. I know. First on the agenda? Write a proposal. This much I knew. And even though my older brother Lawrence was a famous author, as best as I could tell, his books had nothing to do [...]
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.
