COULD SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME WITH CHARTIN BBT..

[afy]

I bought Basal body themotere from walgreens for a while now and seem to have lost the instructions.. do any of the BBT experts know how i should start using it..

[Adia]

I don't completely understand the question.

Are you confused at how to use the thermometer itself or how to chart BBT?

If you want to chart BBT you need to take your temp while you are still in bed at the same time every day after your longest stretch of sleep. When you plot those temps on a chart you can see how long your luteal phase is, when your estrogen rises, when you ovulate, etc. Hope that helps.

[afy]

Sorry it's actually taking the temp.

[atomic sagebrush]

How to Take Your Basal Body Temperature - iVillage

Is it digital or mercury?

If digital, you'll have to keep it under your tongue (or in the VJ) till it beeps. If mercury, keep under your tongue or in VJ for 3 minutes.

[afy]

Thanks AS that's what I needed to know.. I wasn't sure if I need to take it out before it after the beeping.. And I always get up like 1-2times In the night to pee.. Don't we need to be having certain amount of hours asleep?! I'm finding it hard keeping up taking temp because of me constantly waking up !

Thank you Adia that's what my concern is because I'm constantly gettin up..at night time

[luvalittleman]

Hi Afy.
I've been charting for two months now. I keep the thermometer next to my bed and as soon as I am awake and know I am going to get up I pop it in my mouth and wait till it beeps. Once I get up, I go straight out and log on to FF and put my temp readings in.
While I might sometimes get up to pee at 4am, I always make it a habit to take my temp when I wake up to start my day (sadly that's always 5am...sigh...).
Don't worry Afy, you can't mess it up.
Your temp will fluctuate a little in the first two weeks. What you should see is 2 weeks of lower temps. The day before you ovulate you will see a sharp drop in temp (ideally - but not always) and then you will hopefully see 2 weeks of slighlty higher temps.
You still have a couple of months to practice. Just make sure you do it each day.

[atomic sagebrush]

Well, in an ideal world we'd have 3-6 hours of sleep before taking our temp, but in the real world, just take it at the same time every day and FX that a pattern will develop. If you always get up 2 times to pee, that's actualy not that bad. It's if one night you sleep straight thru, the next night you get up 8 times, then you get up 3 hours late the next day - you want the pattern, and in order to see the pattern, the rest of the stuff has to be the same, if that makes sense.

[afy]

thank you so much ladies.. so im guessing im best off taking my Temp whenever i get up for a pee? its been few days now i always seem to wake up 4ish but does it matter if were slightly up or down with timing when taking the tests?

Luvalittleman im really keen on charting my BBT so I can have more of an insight of my fertility.. I do have FF account but havent yet charted down temperature, my attempt will hopefully be in April if all goes well so i have some time..

[luvalittleman]

Here's my chart for last month Afy if that helps.
http://www.fertilityfriend.com/ttc/i...p?d=2012-11-10
I generally tested between 4am and 6am and always went back later in the morning to add my CM readings. You can see I didn't add a temp in on day 18 of my cycle (the girls played with my thermometer and I couldn't find it when I woke up).
Hope this helps.

[Momofboys]

Just want to add that keeping a note pad next to your bed is a good idea to. That way you don't have to get right on ff and put in the temp, you can do it later just make sure you set a default time or adjust the time to when you took the temp FF also has a temp adjuster if you take your temp a couple hours later then normal (I do this sometimes on the weekends lol) it will adjust your temp for you.