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Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health (Revised Edition)
List Price: $23.95 Our Price: $16.29
Paperback - 13 November, 2001
Perennial Currents
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Author: Toni Weschler
ISBN: 0060937645
Number of Media: 1
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| Paperback Description 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 |
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A Wonderful Resource for all Women This is an excellent and thourougly interesting book written in a light and humorous tone. It gives informative, solid advice on how (or how not to) get pregnant, but beyond that, it's just a wonderful read if you want to know more about your body. It goes into great detail about anatomy, cycles and hormones, and while you may think you know about all that, you probably don't know half as much as you think you do! Obviously, you're not guaranteed to get pregnant if you follow the author's advice, but I did and I am (after two cycles charting!), and I am grateful to the many friends who told me to read this book
Doesn't Always Work I followed this book's advice for over a year, and nothing happened. Then, I read "What to Do When You Can't Get Pregnant" by Dr. Daniel Potter, and learned I had been wasting my time.
I'm now starting an IVF program, and Dr. Potter's book is helping me through the whole process. If you haven't bought this one yet, you may want to check it out.
GREAT INFORMATION BUT BE WARNED!!! LOVED this book! I read it over 2 years ago and have recommended it all the time. But here is a WARNING for those pregnancy avoiders -- the book claims that sperm can last in the female body only 5 days, except in a few rare cases; well I guess I am one of those rare cases. I concieved nearly 7 days AFTER intercourse. I was shocked, but happy since we weren't actively avoiding. However, I was curious how I had gotten pregnant since I was charting and the dates didn't add up. I decided to research this information on my own. After an extensive search on google, I found NUMEROUS reports that have shown SPERM CAN SURVIVE 7 DAYS in the female body!! So keep this in mind any females with extremely fertile quality cervical fluid lasting many days each month. |
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