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, Uh, Cutting Edge Inception of the Fertility Awareness Network (FAN) (Part I)
I’ll never forget the phone call I got back in the’80s just a couple weeks before I was scheduled to do a presentation for engaged couples on a religious weekend retreat. It had come to their attention that I was single, so they felt they had no choice but to cancel my lecture because I would be an immoral role model. After all, how could a single person possibly teach couples about the Fertility Awareness Method and ‘the marital embrace’? Back in the mid-80s when many of you were but toddlers and computers were the size of VW bugs, there were only a handful of secular Fertility Awareness instructors in the country. Trying to organize such a group of like-minded professionals dispersed across [...]
Improve your sex life while waiting in line at the grocery store
Instead of begrudging the fact that you waste an inordinate amount of time each week in the grocery line, why not put that time to good use? Embrace a paradigm shift and decide that the longer the line is, the more opportunity you’ll have to make sex better for both you and your partner. How? By tightening your vaginal muscles, of course. Say what? The technical term for tightening and releasing the PC or vaginal muscles is called doing Kegels. If you aren’t sure what the muscles are, just imagine stopping your stream when you are urinating. And after you’ve done them for a while, you can check how much progress you are making by inserting a finger into your [...]
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.
