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
When trying to conceive, observing your cervical fluid is more important than charting your temperature.
The reason that temperatures don’t help determine the best time to achieve pregnancy is because by the time you have a temperature shift, the egg is usually already gone. However, the temperature is still very useful for determining many things, including: (1) whether you are ovulating at all (2) whether the second phase of your cycle (from ovulation until your period) is long enough for your egg to implant (3) whether you have gotten pregnant that cycle.
Stumbling Upon Something Amazing
Who knew that the chicken scratch that I scribbled on the back of a piece of paper grabbed from my recycling bin 25 years ago would one day form the basis for my 536-page book, Taking Charge of Your Fertility? I had already been teaching Fertility Awareness for years at that point, buoyed by the excited responses I always elicited from the women and couples in my classes. The truth is, their reactions were usually no different than mine was when I first took a class in the Fertility Awareness Method at the age of 27. The only difference was that I slithered into my class in the dark of night, hoping that the instructor wouldn’t see me. Why, you [...]
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.
