How to Apply Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health
The fertility knowledge most gynecologists were never taught and most women were never given the chance to learn
About This Book
Toni Weschler spent years being told there was 'nothing there' every time she rushed to the gynecologist convinced she had an infection, until a class called Fertility Awareness revealed she had been healthy all along and simply never taught to read her own body. Built on the more than 1,500 clients she has since taught, this book dismantles the myth that ovulation always lands on day 14, shows why doctors are rarely trained in the three signs a woman's body gives off every cycle, and explains why a single word change once got a taboo topic onto the evening news.About the Author
Toni Weschler is a women's health educator who has personally taught the Fertility Awareness Method to more than 1,500 clients and lectured to nurse practitioners, physicians, and infertility specialists. Her own frustrating years of unexplained gynecological visits, and a failed job interview at a women's clinic that exposed how little even trained staff understood about fertility signs, pushed her into the field. She is credited with popularizing the term cervical fluid in place of the more clinical cervical mucus, a change that helped bring the subject into mainstream medical coverage, and she built much of the charting terminology now used across the method.
Biggest Takeaway
Expect fewer confused trips to the gynecologist for what turns out to be normal cervical fluid, and fewer unnecessary tests chasing symptoms that simply follow your own cycle. If you're avoiding pregnancy, you'll know which days actually carry risk instead of guessing from a generic calendar. If you're trying to conceive, you'll know to watch cervical fluid rather than waiting for a temperature rise that arrives after the egg is already gone. And if you or someone you love has PCOS, endometriosis, or irregular cycles, you'll know which questions to bring to a doctor instead of accepting the first explanation offered.
Key Insights from This Book
Explore the most important ideas and learn how to apply them in your life.
When an insurance company all but accused a newlywed of lying
A slippery sensation most women are never taught to name
One word swap got a taboo topic onto the evening news
Bleeding that looks exactly like a period but isn't one
A bathroom habit that nearly triggered a colonoscopy
The hormonal condition one in ten women live with unnamed
The fertility sign almost every couple watches at the wrong time
Why nearly every contraceptive risk falls on women, not men
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