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Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health (Revised Edition)
Toni Weschler
Rating: 5.0/5 Stars
Rank: 265
This comprehensive book explains in lucid, assured terms how to practice
the fertility awareness method (FAM), a natural, scientifically proven but
little-known form of birth control (which is not to be confused with
the woefully ineffective "rhythm" method).
Author Toni Weschler
has been teaching fertility awareness for almost 20 years, and it's only
just now gaining in popularity.
As the book explains, by using simple
fertility signs including peaks in morning body temperature and changes in
cervical position and cervical mucus, it's possible to determine when
ovulation is taking place.
Fertility awareness is therefore useful for not
only couples who are trying to conceive, but for those who are aiming to
avoid pregnancy without the use of chemical contraceptives.
It will be of
special interest to those women who have suffered from infertility; many
FAM practitioners have told the author that by filling in the detailed
charts in the book, they've realized that they were chronically
miscarrying, even when their doctors told them they weren't conceiving at
all. As the book explains, by charting body temperature, it's simple to
tell when pregnancy has occurred--and when there's danger of miscarriage.
Taking Charge of Your Fertility also explains how to choose the sex
of your baby by timing intercourse according to certain fertility signs.
It
also features thorough, easy-to-understand explanations of hormones, the
menstrual cycle, and menopause, along with fertility tests and treatments
and their long- and short-term side effects, plus a topnotch resource
section.
Recommended for any woman who wants to better understand her
body. --Erica Jorgensen--This text refers to the
Paperback edition.
About the AuthorToni Weschler is a nationally respected women's health educator and
speaker with a master's degree in Public Health.
She founded Fertility
Awareness Counseling and Training Seminars (FACTS) in 1986, and has
lectured at hospitals, clinics, and universities since 1982.
She recently
helped develop cycle-tracking software as an adjunct to her book,
Taking Charge of Your Fertility.
The TCOYF Fertility Software is
available at TCOYF.com. She is a frequent guest on television, radio, and
Internet Web sites, where she continues to advocate the dissemination of
Fertility Awareness education as an empowering body of knowledge for all
women of reproductive age. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
Editorials
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Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health (Revised Edition)
Toni Weschler
![]() | | | Co-authors of The New Our Bodies, Ourselves | | This beautifully written guide to a woman's fertility signs....packed with
knowledge, wisdom, humor a must for the bookshelf. --This text
refers to the
Paperback edition. |
![]() | | | Book Description | | THE GROUNDBREAKING BESTSELLER NOW UPDATED AND
REVISEDAre 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... read full editorial |
![]() | | | HarperPerennial | | Are you unhappy with your current method of birth control? Or are you
demoralized by the fertility treadmill you've embarked upon in your quest
to have a baby? Do you experience confusing signs and symptoms at various
times... read full editorial |
Customer Reviews
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Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health (Revised Edition)
Toni Weschler
![]() | | | Useful for every woman! | | October 22, 2004 - 5.0/5 stars | | I read a review on another site saying that this book was useful for every
woman, even if she's using another form of birth control and has no desire
to become pregnant. One of the author's main arguments is that very... read full review |
![]() | | | Amazing Book! Better than the Art of Family Planning | | (California, USA) February 17, 2005 - 5.0/5 stars | | If you ever want to avoid pregnancy or get pregnant, this is the book to
have. It also explains an alternative birth control that doesn't have
side effects and will only require 2 minutes of your time in a day. I
like this... read full review |
![]() | | | A MUST HAVE!!! THE ABC OF FERTILITY! | | (Central America) October 3, 2004 - 4.0/5 stars | | I consider this one a must have for females and males too. It should be a
textbook for seniors or college students. It's the ABC of fertility.
There's nothing in the book that you won't understand. The language is
simple,... read full review |
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