Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health

by Toni Weschler

Book Overview

In celebration of its 20th anniversary, a thoroughly revised and expanded edition of the leading book on fertility and women's reproductive health.

Since the publication of Taking Charge of your Fertility two decades ago, Toni Weschler has taught a whole new generation of women how to become pregnant, avoid pregnancy naturally and gain better control of their gynecological and sexual health by taking just a couple minutes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062326031
• ISBN13: 9780062326034
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great book

Came in good condition. Love the book

Very Informative Book

I was diagnosed with endometriosis almost 3 years ago and found out that I am not fertile. I have been looking for information, not necessarily for fertility but for healthy woman care in general. I stumbled across this book and has actually been very helpful in all avenues and teaching me things about the reproductive system to kind of understand my own womb more. Something that people have tried to make me feel ashamed about & this book has been another great additional help for me to love mines. I encourage those to read.

You WILL Learn Something

I’ve successfully used her method as birth control for almost two years, it’s great. Plus I learned quite a bit about what to expect during menopause and how to discern an infection from normal discharge (HINT: It’s almost always normal, don’t panic.).

Every woman should read this!

Extremely informative! And easy to read/understand. Highly recommend.

Must have for all women

I am taking a fertility doula class and this book was on the list, holy cow I have 4 kids and there are things I have learned here that I never knew. All women should read this. It teaches you the right way to track you period, while also going over things like PCOS, endometriosis, age, and so much more!!!!

A must have

I have recommended this book to many friends but am having a hard time gleaming any new information that is helpful to where I am in my body knowledge

Essential for every woman, especially teens

This is not just a guide to getting pregnant. It is about knowing your body without being embarassed. It is quite liberating to read this book and then be able to recognize exactly where you are in your fertility cycle. Too often, women are made to feel guilty or shamed about even looking at our bodies. It's beyond imagination for some women to examine themselves or to ask questions about what exactly their bodies do. Weschler helps break this barrier and shows us why it's critical to overcome the societal embarassment or reluctance.She makes a very good point: why is it that men are fertile all of the time, that women are fertile for just 5 days a month, yet the majority of birth control involves a woman taking a drug 30 days a month, or inserting a contraceptive device before every sexual encounter? Forget about the burden being placed on women (as long as we bear the children we will be ultimately responsible). Think about the ridiculousness of taking powerful hormonal drugs every day or having to use contraception when you're not even fertile! The drug and contraceptive industries are having a field day!This book has three very distinct values:1. An essential part of every adolescent girl's education about her changing body. This book will do more than almost anything else in preparing her for responsible sexual encounters, and will help her self esteem by getting rid of her trepidation about her body.2. Tool for avoiding pregnancy.3. Tool for achieving pregnancy.It boils down to three basic fertility signs: basal temperature, cervical fluid, and height of cervix. Once you read the book and become accomplished at tracking each of the three signs, you can put away the thermometer. Weschler urges you to track the basal temperature faithfully for several months. But, especially if you're using the method as birth control, you can judge by the other two signs and safely avoid pregnancy. And it takes absolutely no extra effort or monitoring.Most of us have heard the jokes about natural family planning. Weschler discusses those criticisms and shows why this book is different and reliable."Taking Charge of Your Fertility" will ease your mind and give you the confidence of being certain when you are fertile or not fertile.

Brilliantly enlightening!

I bought this book after 4 unsuccessful months of trying, which was after 3 months of waiting after having 2 miscarriages. Since I'd gotten pregnant right away with my first child, I figured there might be something I needed to learn and I couldn't have been more right. This book is an absolute must for anyone, whether you're trying to get pregnant or not. I learned more about my body in the day and a half it took me to read the book than I ever did in any of the sex ed classes in school. After 4 months of what we thought was perfect timing and no success, we thought there might be a problem. I bought the book to learn about detecting ovulation and potential fertility problems. I got pregnant the first cycle I charted because of the knowledge I gained about ovulation and its signals. I learned through charting that I ovulated on Day 21 rather than Day 14. I was also able to determine I was pregnant without even taking a test! I'm so thrilled about the knowledge I've gained by reading this book and I feel much more in tune with my body now that I am pregnant. I urge any woman to get this book if you are at all interested in your body, pregnancy achievement, or pregnancy avoidance. This book is very well written in plain English that is easy to understand. The illustrations, color photographs, and numerous charting patterns were especially helpful to me. I can't say enough about this book!

You've got to have this book - and recommend it to friends!!

After over 4 months of trying to get pregnant, a good friend of mine recommended this book. She told me that if nothing else I would feel more knowledgeable about my body, its cycles, and what it was telling me when. So I ordered it. It is so well written that I found myself looking forward to reading it. It is incredibly informative and easy to understand. And I immediately knew from reading it what my husband and I were doing wrong (we were a little late in my cycle each month). Thanks to the charting I knew that having a mild flu with fever delayed my cycle's ovulation date *and* I knew when to keep going before ovulation. I'm happy to write that thanks to my first cycle of charting I'm now 3 weeks pregnant. I very very highly recommend this book. It helped me to relax and, literally, go with my body's flow. (I wish there were one this good for during pregnancy!!) THANKS TONI!!!!