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 Little Tidbit to Spice up Your Next Zoom Meeting
So what if I told you that a woman carrying twins can look down at her belly and know that she is carrying the actual physical cells of half of her future grandchildren? First of all, how is that even possible? And more specifically, if it is possible, why only half? I’ll give you a clue to the second question. She is carrying a boy and a girl. Does that tell you anymore? If she were carrying two girls, she would be carrying all of her potential grandchildren. And if she were carrying two boys, she’d be carrying none of them. I know, I know, not fair. But stick with me on this. Every female fetus, including your mom, developed [...]
My Year of Kindergarten in a Charming French Village
When I was four years old, my father was a professor at UCLA on sabbatical, teaching at the University of Toulouse in southern France. So my family lived in a tiny village just outside of Toulouse for a year. Back in 1960, the locals had never met anyone from abroad, so they always referred to us as ‘Les Américains.’ Whenever our parents drove us to school, the children would surround our little car and peer into it as if we were the most exciting thing they’d seen all day. I attended kindergarten that year, initially not speaking a word of French. But the bigger issue for me was that I was so afraid of losing my balance on the ceramic [...]
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.
