COULD SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME WITH CHARTIN BBT..

Take your temp at the same time in the morning. It's affected far more by time of day than by interruptions in your sleep. If you take the temp more than 30 min outside your usual time you need to note that and/or discard it if it's WAY out of trend. If you need to get up to pee, try and do it in the dark as much as possible (maybe get a nightlight), it'll disturb your temp less. I pee like a million times a night and it doesn't seem to skew my charts too much as long as I do it quick and don't turn on the full bathroom light.

Don't worry if your first few charts are a mess, it takes a bit to get the hang of it! I temp vaginally, it's not for everyone but I find it gives me a much steadier result than orally.

Do join FertilityFriend, it's free and they have a huge FAQ on how to chart properly. The notebook beside the bed is a good idea, there are also bbt thermometers that will save your temp for you so you don't have to remember it. I highly recommend the book Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler, it's the bible of all things charting.

GL!

Im SOO bad with the temp taking i wake up different times everyday .. DD is teething so she wakes me up once or twice in the night.. so Now im thinking to put an alarm on everyday same time so i can temp.. but then i will sometimes get woken by DD like an hour or 2 before im expected to take my Temp.. does it really matter if im woken up i dont get out of bed or anything i just try tap her back to sleep lol.. this is one thing im finding hard keeping up.. im trying to chart my BBT on FF so i can familiarise with my cycle!

I would set the alarm, when it goes off pop your thermometer in and wait for the reading then get up, and dont worry if you have been woken up previously that night, see how your temps look and if there are huge variences each time we may need to come up with another way.

yaaay i woke up with the alarm so far.. AF is here and my temps have been reading 97.45 yesterday and today 96.63??? i have no idea what that means for me lol

That's exactly what you want to see. You're temp always drops when AF comes. It should stay relatively low like it was today until O. You may see a drop the day before O...not everyone sees this drop, but it is a clue that you are about to O. The day after you O, your temps will rise again and stay up until the next AF arrives...if your temp does not drop again when expected for AF, that is a clue that your are PG. When you do become PG, your temp will rise again around the time of AF instead of dropping. It will stay high throughout pregnancy. Temps are all about hormone levels...kind of like when women go through menopause they get hot flashes...hormones :)
good luck to you and I also agree that Taking Charge of your Fertility is an excellent book...we have used that method for over 10 years and have both prevented and conceived our two children without any other form of birth control...first attempts on both!

Thank you vannase so Usually what does our temp range to and from when we see it drop right before we ovulate.. And soon as we get the first sign of temp going up O has already taken place is this right? I'm on FF but just started properly taking temps and recording so hopefully I shall see this month how it goes .. Yes I read about temp rising when we fall PG I still clearly remember mysel how hot and stuffy I would feel !

afy on the left hand side of FF there is a "charting course" and "games" you can go into, its really helpful when learning about charting, if you have time its fun too :)

I didn't have much luck when I used FF back in the day, I could never get it to tell me that O had taken place, eventhough it clearly had.
Each person is different in terms of how much their temps range throughout a cycle. It looks like your range may be as much a 1 degree which is a nice shift to make it easier for you to tell.
Again, not everyone gets the dip just before O, but it is something to look for. As you are charting this month, pay attention to how much your temp changes from day to day. If it is pretty consistent within .1 each day and then you have a day where it is more than .1, that's most likely the drop.
The day after O, you will see the rise. It could be gradual though where it goes up for a few days and then remains steady.
Don't forget that temping isn't the only signs to look for. If you are having CM, that is another great indicator of O approaching or having past.

It matters for some people but not for others, and the only way you know if it matters for you is by charting!

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Originally Posted by afy

Thank you vannase so Usually what does our temp range to and from when we see it drop right before we ovulate.. And soon as we get the first sign of temp going up O has already taken place is this right? I'm on FF but just started properly taking temps and recording so hopefully I shall see this month how it goes .. Yes I read about temp rising when we fall PG I still clearly remember mysel how hot and stuffy I would feel !

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People have temps all over the map, but what matters is taht your temp is lower and then it stays higher. That's what counts and not the range you're in.