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Tips on charting temp please

Wren83

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Morning. I have just ordered myself a basal thermometer.
I literally have no clue so can I have tips please. Is there a good app to chart with?
I know I need to temp as soon as I wake up before I even sit up, would being up in the night affect the temp?
What day of my cycle do I start? Thank you
 
Step 1, it's for your mouth, not your bottom...I used to think a 'basal' thermometer was for your bum, and didn't get one for ages as I was put off. Put it under the tongue obviously.

I chart on paper. I find it easier. Just make a spreadsheet with days of month and cycle days at the top. Then I have temps down the side and at the bottom down the side things like 'period', CM, ovulation pain, etc.

Personally I don't trust apps...I chart on fertility friend and it gives me a different ovulation day to Ovia, which I think is generally more accurate but doesn't have a BBT charting option.

My sleep is dreadful...I wake up all the time. It still seems to work. It's best if you have at least 4 hrs sleep before but I don't always. I take it different times when I remember to when I wake up in the early morning.

A good book about temping is 'Taking Charge of Your Fertility'. The temps for 6 days before your luteal phase should all be lower than your temp when it goes up for luteal phase. You want your luteal phase to be 10 days or more. My temp doesn't go up the day after ovulation but several days after and for some women it creeps up slowly.

In my opinion one of the best things about temping is that I know exactly the day AF will start as the temp drops. You also don't really need to do a pregnancy test because you can see by the temps going down before AF that you are not pregnant.
 
Sunflower that's hilarious! It's a good thing you decided not to get one then hey! :)
You've given me some great info there thank you, I like the idea of knowing exactly when my period will start as, for times like now, I'm sat here wondering what day it will turn up. So that would be great, thank you x
 
I haven't temped for ages but always found it really helpful. I use the fertility friend app to chart my temps. The one good thing about temping is that it shows when AF is about to arrive so cuts out the uncertainty about whether you are pregnant or not! Take your temp at the same time each morning and you can start immediately. In order to see when you have ovulated you need to have all days of your cycle i.e. Make sure you have charted from CD1. Good luck :)
 
It's arriving on Monday and I'm due on between today and Monday. If I have come on by Monday it won't matter a huge amount if I only start on the 2nd or 3rd day would it, the first month? X
 
CD1 by the way is the first day you bleed red when the 'flow' starts properly. I was confused about that. Also, if you start in the evening then you tend to count the following day as CD1. Just spotting is counted as part of the previous cycle so on it's own doesn't count. Technically you only need a week before ovulation to get a sense of your temps but I think it's good to do it every day.
 
And no 2nd or 3rd day is fine. You really just need 6 temps before luteal. If you are lucky you'll get an ovulation dip in temp. It's best to temp with opks as the temping won't tell you that you are about to ovulate, only that you have just ovulated or are pregnant or about to get AF.
 
Oh yes I know cd1 is the first day of your period. That's great thank you, I will start temping Tuesday morning, that should be no more than cd4, thank you :)
 
Ovia does have an option to log temps, that is what I used. Found it pretty user friendly. You need to look at the overall pattern rather than individual results, the more data you can log the better, so start as soon as it arrives to get into the swing of it. I found it best to keep by my alarm so I didn't forget.
 
If you sleep with your mouth open you may find you get more accurate results ahem vaginally. I didn't experiment with that as I got ok results orally. Oh also if you have one of the thermometers that beeps when it has the reading you should ignore the first reading and immediately take it again without removing from the mouth for best results.
 
I've bean using the natural cycles app for 1 cycle so far, quite like the interface
 
Wow really snowbee I never knew that about how you should take it again after the first beep!
I temp vaginally..my oral temps were literally everywhereeeee
 
I'm full of useless information! It said that would give best results in the booklet that came with my thermometer. Seemed to work for me even with pcos, which can make temps a bit nuts.
 
Haha yep I noticed that!hence why having to temp vaginally lol theyre still a bit up and down a lot haha will try that :)
 
This may sound stupid... but how do I take it vaginally...? Just literally pop it up there?? I guess there's no other way really :)
 
Yeah haha I kinda make sure to insert it to the same amount each time if that makes sense . haha you would get the hang of it! see what they are like orally first as is easier and lots of women are fine doing it that way :)
 
Hi, I've been temp charting for a week or so now. I'm on cycle day 10 and this morning my temp was slightly lower, just reading back over replies it seems like this is right (should dip slightly about 6 days before ov).
I don't have a graph yet as it's my first cycle but if I list my temps can someone say if it seems about right please?

Started on CD2; 36.47
CD3; 36.18
CD4; 36.32
CD5; 36.37
CD6; 36.30
CD7; 36.31
CD8; 36.39
CD9; 36.30
CD10; 36.21 / 36.26 (I took it twice as I thought the first one must be wrong being so low).

Does this all look pretty normal up to now? Xx
 

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