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Advice needed on temp charting?
Hello ladies,
12 DPO today and just got that feeling we haven't done it. So, in anticipation of BFN, I am trying to be proactive and positive about next month (I figure any wasted money will be worth it if we get a surprise BFP). I have just invested in another pack of OPKs to see me through next month and prepared hubby regarding trying SMEP again - he doesn't look too devestated! I am going to buy some preseed as well. The last thing on my list was charting my temps as that seems to help a lot of people. I have your bog standard thermometer at home - stick it in your armpit, wait til it beeps and says something like 36.4 degrees C. Is that the right sort of thing or does it need to read to a greater decimal place? Also, what am I looking out for? Oooh.. last thing, I read somewhere that it isn't that effective if you don't sleep very well (majorly guilty of this) so is it best to ignore the temp on restless nights?
Thanks for any tips...
Em x
12 DPO today and just got that feeling we haven't done it. So, in anticipation of BFN, I am trying to be proactive and positive about next month (I figure any wasted money will be worth it if we get a surprise BFP). I have just invested in another pack of OPKs to see me through next month and prepared hubby regarding trying SMEP again - he doesn't look too devestated! I am going to buy some preseed as well. The last thing on my list was charting my temps as that seems to help a lot of people. I have your bog standard thermometer at home - stick it in your armpit, wait til it beeps and says something like 36.4 degrees C. Is that the right sort of thing or does it need to read to a greater decimal place? Also, what am I looking out for? Oooh.. last thing, I read somewhere that it isn't that effective if you don't sleep very well (majorly guilty of this) so is it best to ignore the temp on restless nights?
Thanks for any tips...
Em x
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i temped last time, temping will tell you that you have oved (after 3 days of higher temps) not that you are going to so it wont help prepare you for OV, IYSWIM, although if you have high temps past when AF is due can indicate pregnancy (temps stay high due to progesterone)
You need to use a special BBT thermometer as it needs to be very accurate, you can get these from boots, i got mine from ebay cheap. you either use it orally or vaginally, you need to take your temp at the same time every morning before getting up out of bed (very important) and chart it to see a pattern. i used fertility friend a free basic chart with the option to pay for extras x
HTH
good luck
Fertility Friend is a good website to use, I'm on it.
Here is my home page if you want to take a look although I have been undergoing tests in the last couple of months so only did symptoms and not temps as I wasn't supposed to be ttc while they were doing the testing. If you scroll down though you can see my temp charts.
http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/2e0873
Let me know if you have any questions. Good luck.x
this is my preg chart from last time,
http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/2219e2
How many dpo are you?