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
Identifying Your Peak Day
You know the drill . . . you meet a stranger in the course of a day, and one of the first questions you usually ask each other is along the lines of “And what do you do?” As soon as I mention that I’m a women’s health author specializing in fertility, invariably I’ll get any number of questions, including the following two: Is it true that women are most fertile on Day 14? When is a woman most fertile in her cycle? The first one is the pervasive ‘Day 14 Myth’ that we were all raised hearing. And while it’s true that a woman in a particular cycle may be most fertile on Day 14, in another cycle she may be most fertile on Day [...]
From the Fertility Awareness Network to AFAP (Say, what?)
For those of you who may be snickering at the acronym above, all I have to say is that you are clearly more current on sexual lingo than I apparently am. I had no idea what “FAP” alluded to until I recently mentioned how excited I was that there was finally going to be a professional organization to bring the former FAM network I co-founded back in the ’80s into the 21st century. . . when my friend just about lost her lunch as I told her the name: the Association of Fertility Awareness Professionals, or AFAP. “A-what” she asked with a smirk? “A-FAP” I meekly repeated. “What’s the problem?” It was only then that I, purveyor of all things fertility and sexuality, apparently needed to be [...]
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.
