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 Fertility Brain Teaser to Keep You On Your Toes
Two adult siblings are heatedly discussing their respective fertility. The 31 year-old sister says to her 28 year-old brother: You know, men have it so much easier than women. After all, men produce sperm every single day from the time of puberty until they die. Women, on the other hand, are only fertile the few days around the time they release an egg just once a cycle, and they are only fertile from puberty through menopause. Just at that moment, their grandmother on their mom’s side chimes in from the kitchen “All that may be true, but one thing you both share is the fact that I carried each one of you in my own belly.” HUH? How is that even possible? (Answer on Friday).
The Inception of the Fertility Awareness Network (FAN) (Part II)
Stuffed and mangled manila envelopes packed with all manner of research studies etc. would only get us so far back in the ‘80s. Ultimately, the founding members of the secular Fertility Awareness Network realized that in order to learn all we could from each other, we’d have to meet in person. But because we didn’t have the benefit of financial backing as did religious natural family planning organizations that held annual conferences, we found ourselves flying each year to members’ homes for week-long stays instead. One summer I treated my houseguests in Seattle to a stifling tiny attic space packed to the gills, but they were clearly so excited to be amongst like-minded instructors that they somehow failed to notice that the temp often reached into the 90s as [...]
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?
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