take charge!

My grandmother emailed this morning after reading all about my pregnancy. She reminded me that, fifty or sixty years ago, most women were a lot less informed about fertility, conception, and pregnancy (they didn’t have Google, for one thing). In her first (of five) pregnancies, she didn’t even know she was pregnant until the third month.

Her email reminded me that I should recommend to you the one book that more than any other helped me understand birth control and fertility.

Take charge, girls!

Toni Weschler’s book taught me what really happens in each cycle, and how to know the signs of ovulation. Using only her charting methods (called the Fertility Awareness Method, or FAM) for birth control, we didn’t conceive for ten months. Using only her charting methods for conception, we conceived in the first month that we tried.

But this is a book for any woman, sexually active or not. If you want to understand and take control of your body, read it.