
Published: Jan 5, 07
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Due to busy careers and later marriages, getting pregnant is becoming much more difficult. As a result, tracking everything from waking temperature to moods and various bodily fluids is integral in the act of successful reproduction. To aid in this process, a variety of websites are providing online charts and email services to alert women on their fertile days.
Now, FAM-inspired websites let women record, chart and analyze everything from their menstrual cycles to the color and texture of cervical discharges. Likewise, several free downloads turn PDAs into fertility-tracking devices.
It's a trend that Toni Weschler, who popularized FAM in her best-selling Taking Charge of Your Fertility, initially resisted. After the book was published in 1995, Weschler was solicited by several programmers who wanted to create software based on the method. "In each case I said, 'No, no, no,'" she recalls.
(wired)
References: wired
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