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 BOOK PROPOSAL OF AN AMATEUR
I certainly never set out to write a 500+ page book on women’s reproductive health over 25 years ago. Truth be told, I would’ve just as soon sat around eating bonbons and playing Scrabble. But I felt compelled to after my zillionth passionate Fertility Awareness student asked why this invaluable information wasn’t readily available anywhere but Seattle. Now mind you, this was about five years before my book was published, and, gasp, there was no internet back then. I know! So first on the agenda? Write a proposal. This much I knew. And even though my older brother Lawrence was a well-known author, as best as I could tell, his books had nothing to do with women’s indoor plumbing. Ultimately, [...]
When Facing Your Fears Goes Awry
I have a friend who was so utterly overwhelmed with the 5-year process of researching and writing her book, that when it was finally published, she couldn’t wait to escape to another country where she wasn’t tethered to computers, fax machines, phones, and utterly stressful jaunts to the airport Fed-Ex office during rush hour to be sure her manuscript would arrive at her publisher’s doorstep the next morning. As you may have surmised, this was before the internet and email (gasp) so everything that could possibly go wrong did, and the the cost of overnighting manuscripts every few days required remortgaging your house. Anyway, she chose to escape to a country that was one of the furthest from her own [...]
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.
