Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health
January 15th, 2010
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Product Description
THE GROUNDBREAKING BESTSELLERNOW UPDATED AND REVISED
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.
Taking Charge of Your Fertility has helped literally hundreds of thousands of women achieve pregnancy, avoid pregnancy naturally, or simply gain better control of their health and lives. This book thoroughly explains the empowering Fertility Awareness Method, which in only a couple of minutes a day allows you to:
This expanded new edition includes:
Amazon.com Review
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
January 15th, 2010 at 11:15 am
i was looking forward to getting this book but i never did get it, which was really disappointing and i never got compensated for never getting it.
Rating: 1 / 5
January 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
If you’re looking for a way to turn the exciting and romantic prospect of conceiving into a clinical examination of temperatures and cervical fluids, this is the book for you. Check your cervical fluid three times a day! Focus on its *quality*! Dry, sticky, creamy, slippery? Focus on your vaginal sensations during the day! Don’t have fun, this is a baby you’re trying to make here!
And don’t forget the ancedote about Vanessa and Max. You’re ovulating, but your husband just had surgery, is filled with painkillers and sex is the last thing on his mind? Tell him you can take care of things yourself, and force yourself on him!
Rating: 1 / 5
January 15th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
This book uses the concept of Natural Family Planning, but calls it a different name. It gives instruction on how to use the Natural Family Planning method but doesn’t explain how this protects the sacredness of life. I highly suggest that you buy the book by Kippley titled Natural Family Planning instead. Kippley’s book addresses the sacredness of human life and how that affects the way we treat our bodies. It is a great book for all couples.
Rating: 2 / 5
January 15th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
I was looking for another form of birth control and bought this book. Knowing that the withdrawal method was risky, I hoped that this book could give me clear instruction on charting and the Fertility Awareness Method (FAM). Instead, the majority of this book is anecdotes, rather than clear and concise information.
I am left wondering if FAM has too many variables or if Toni Wechsler is incapable of explaining it. THIS BOOK WILL NOT GIVE YOU ANY USEFULL INFORMATION IF YOU WANT TO LEARN ABOUT FAM AS BIRTH CONTROL. I have no doubt that if I followed the “instructions” in the book I would get pregnant eventually (assuming there were no fertility issues.)
Rating: 1 / 5
January 15th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
Toni comes across as a most caring, well-intentioned person. She is a very capable writer and is highly convincing. This creates a problem because it lends credibility to an absurd proposal: that a souped-up version of the “rhythm” method of birth control can be relied on to produce results! The Fertility Awareness Method,(FAM), monitors cervical mucus and body temperature on a daily basis to predict the week or so per cycle when a woman could potentially become pregnent. The other three weeks or so are completely safe. I’m sure this works flawlessly for the majority of women. Unfortunately, the only way to find out if you’re one of the minority for whom it doesn’t is by becoming PREGNANT!! Think about it. Then do what women have done since the start of spoken communication: ask other women about some of the intimate details of their lives. You will be amazed at how open and forthcoming mothers, grandmothers, aunts, friends and acquaintances can be. The truth that emerges is stunningly simple: humans have an incredible reproductive potential. INTERCOURSE AT EITHER END OF OF A THREE WEEK TIME FRAME OFTEN RESULTS IN CONCEPTION. “End of period” babies are very common. Sperm can survive longer than you might think. Eggs can be fertilized long past their peak time. Ms. Weschler and I share a deep distrust of M.D.s. Still, you may want to run FAM by your gynecologist. They’ve seen too much to be totally clueless on the subject. Maybe your friends with ten years between children were’nt careless, just ignorant.
From personal experience, I offer this: there is no resistance to ovulation and conception provided by actively nursing.
Rating: 1 / 5