Charting my way to pregnancy (hopefully)

[beckyand3littlemonsters]

I've started charting my temp on fertility friend and hoping for a nice bfp this cycle
good luck to everyone else ttc
so far i've had
35.6, 35.6 and 35.1
would it ruin my chances that i started on cd 8/35 rather than starting on cd 1 i'm taking my temp at 7am when my alarm goes off.

My chart

[finnegansmom]

No you're fine to start after CD1, as long as you get a few days pre O for a baseline which you will have. Did you take the free course they offer? It's helpful.

Good luck!

[AdalynsMama]

Good Luck!!!

[beckyand3littlemonsters]

Originally Posted by finnegansmom

No you're fine to start after CD1, as long as you get a few days pre O for a baseline which you will have. Did you take the free course they offer? It's helpful.

Good luck!

thanks, yes i have it emailed to me daily but it confuses me does your temp go up before or after you ovulate? my dr told me it was before, at the moment my temp is pretty low.

[beckyand3littlemonsters]

I've had to change the thermometer i was using because it kept just saying low so i didn't know what my temp was, i had just put it as 35 for them times and i've just noticed on fertility friend that your not supposed to use the ear thermometers but my dr said this was ok, i'm using an underarm/mouth digital thermometer now i started this morning and my temp is 34.3.
heres is the link to my chart if anyone wants to have a look, tell what you think.
My Ovulation Chart

[Tear78]

Originally Posted by beckyand3littlemonsters

thanks, yes i have it emailed to me daily but it confuses me does your temp go up before or after you ovulate? my dr told me it was before, at the moment my temp is pretty low.

Doctors. I was told by my doc that we had to have sex EVERY SINGLE DAY starting from the last day of bleeding. um...hello, that's actually not true for people struggling with infertility. That's actually BAD advice. Anyway, when your temp goes up it means that you have already ovulated. Also, changing thermometers can sometimes make it hard to see the temp shift. Many people temp with a mouth thermometer, but this can be inaccurate if you mouth-breathe in your sleep. I temp vaginally. Good luck!

[MaerynPearl]

I temped vaginally too... orally my temp was really low and odd and bounced around a lot...would be just below 36C pre-O and just over post-O...

I would really worry about temps below 35 because to me that's a sign your oral temping is really unreliable or you are suffering from hypothermia... which is doubtful. I really highly suggest you try vaginal temping instead. Its really easy and not uncomfortable, you just put it in to the point between where it feels like its going to fall out and the point where it is uncomfortably in too far... I had about an inch leeway between those two points. No need to squeeze your legs around it tightly or anything in most cases our vaginas are like a vacuum and will close around it on their own.

when I started temping vaginally it smoothed out considerably and was 36.3C pre-O and 36.8C post-O most months on average (of course it still bumped around a bit, but that was the average for pre/post O temps)

[beckyand3littlemonsters]

i'm actually doing underarm although when i tried orally it was the same temp, i'm using a digital thermometer would that be accurate also my ds sleeps with me and i can just about manage underarm temping without waking him but not sure i'd manage as well vaginally, although may be worth giving it a try.

[MaerynPearl]

its much more accurate to use a digital thermometer made for basal body temperature... only because they are accurate to .02 and most other digital thermometers are only accurate to .2 to 1 degree (this is F, I dont know their accuracy in C but obviously that would be a smaller amount)

when doing BBT temping in F... .2 can be the difference between O or no O... which can make a huge difference and totally throw a chart off by days!

[beckyand3littlemonsters]

unfortunately thats all i have and can't afford to buy one till tuesday *sigh*
i've seen one on amazon and it comes with 10 opk's and 10 hpt's and is only £4.99 plus £2p+p only thing is it will probably be too late for this cycle hopefully i'll get on ok with what i've got and won't need the thermometer or opk's just the hpt's good luck to everyone
****babydust*****

[beckyand3littlemonsters]

New chart and hopefully new luck, for me and anyone else ttc, my temp was slightly lower this morning at 35.82 but thats higher than the underarm temps were.

[MaerynPearl]

You are probably in your usual pre-O range now... its totally normal to drop around AF as the progesterone is no longer surging through your system.

[beckyand3littlemonsters]

Thanks, is it normal to drop while still on my period? i only came on yesterday.

[beckyand3littlemonsters]

Looks like my period is finished already very short visit from Aunt Flo this month, but then so have my last couple, they seem to be getting shorter and closer together. The period before last was pink/light red spotting 2 days, 1 day light red bleeding, then 2 days brown spotting, last cycle day 1 light bleeding, day 2 medium bleeding, day 3 light bleeding and day 4 and 5 brown spotting and this one day 1 and 2 light bleeding and day 3 brown and red spotting. This isn't normal for me my periods january and all before where very heavy i had to use 2 pads at a time and then i'd often leak through them.
Now this last cycle was 30 days the 2 before where 35 and the 3 before that were 42, when would i start using opk's?