June 2010
Welcome to the June 2010 charting to avoid and fertility awareness thread. We are all at different stages in family planning and our own fertility. Some of us are very ardently Charting to Avoid (CTA); most are CTA but would be thrilled with a BFP; and we even have a few who are not CTA but are also not TTC, and continue to hang out here.
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The May 2010 thread can be found here
*Charting/Using FAM/NFP to AVOID*
Who we are:
Who we are:
AlaskanFlower
AnnieA - since 12/07
Annie2186
Baby_Cakes
BarefootScientist - since 08/08 and 12 cycles in '05-'06
bbrandonsmom
Bellabaz
Blueone
Crabbyowl
dealic
doriansmummy
Fresh veggie
InMediaRes
JenineJessica - since 12/07
Jodi5
JonahRoo
Kidzaplenty
K-Mom3
Kcroto42 – CTA since 10/09
Lauren31
lilcrunchymama
MarineWife – CTA for 10 months, now CFS&G
MissE
mom2cash
MovingMomma - CTA since 02/09 plus some time before
MQ
Mummoth
nerdymom
Newbiemama09 - Using FAM for 2+ years
nerdymom
peabean26
Pinkgeek
RaraAvis - CTA since 8/09 plus 13 months before
Readytobedone
Sammerson0814
Sk8ermaiden
Smokering
Smylingeyz
Sunniecooks
theboysmama
Toolip
yippiehippie
youngspiritmom
Graduates 
Wholewheatchick - Due in Dec. 2010
OsUvet - Due in Feb. 2011
Echospiritwarrior - Due in Feb. 2011
Lyterae - Due in Feb. 2011
Dex_Millie - Due in Feb. 2011
AnnieA - Due in March 2011
Summary of FAM rules (sympto-thermal)
Pre-ovulation rules:
Pre-ovulation rules:
1) First 5 Days Rule: You are safe the first 5 days of your menstrual cycle if you had an obvious temp shift 12-16 days before.
2) Dry day rule: You are safe to DTD after 6PM if you have been dry all day.
Post ovulation rules:
1) Peak day rule: the last day of fertile mucous is called the peak day (the day before your mucous begins to dry up). You are safe to DTD on the fourth consecutive day after the peak day. If another patch of more fertile mucous appears, start your count over.
2) Temperature shift rule: You are safe the evening of the third consecutive day your temp is above your coverline. If your temp falls at or below the coverline during the 3 day count, begin your count again.
BOTH rules must be satisfied to be considered in your infertile phase.
How to set a coverline:
When you see a temperature shift of at least 0.2 degrees F above the highest of the previous 6 temps, draw a line 0.1 degrees F above that highest temp.
Resources
Books:
Taking
Charge of Your Fertility, by Toni Weschler
Garden of Fertility and
The Art of Natural Family Planning
by John and SheilaKippley
Breastfeeding and Natural Child Spacing: How Ecological Breastfeeding Spaces Babies by Sheila Kippley
Fertility, Cycles and Nutrition
by MarilynShannon
Websites:
Ovusoft charting software, and brief fertility library
Fertility Friend charting software, and ttc charting guide
myfertilitycharts.com free software for ttc or tta
Author Katie Singer's Garden of Fertility website
Mothering Magazine article by Katie Singer
Billings Ovulation Method info
Billings Ovulation Method Association, USA
Billings Centre, CA
Couple to Couple League (find an NFP instructor)
Creighton Model
Abbreviations:
AF: Aunt Flo, your period
AFM: as for me
BD: baby dancing; bed dancing (i.e. sex)
BFP: positive pregnancy test (big fat positive)
BFN: negative pregnancy test (big fat negative)
BIP: basic infertile pattern
CD: Cycle day
CM: cervical mucous (same as CF)
CF: cervical fluid (same as CM)
CTA: Charting to Avoid
CTW: Charting to "whatever" (not avoiding, not preventing)
DPO: Days past ovulation
DTD: Do the deed
GIO: get it on
EWCM: eggwhite cervical mucous/fluid
LP: Luteal phase - the time from ovulation until your period, average 10-16 days
LTL: low temp level (basically 1/10th below FAM's CL or on the highest of the 6 previous temps)
HTL: high temp level (4/10ths above LTL, temp rise needed to indicate O)
I am still ambivalent. So I'm not really sure if we'll be avoiding this cycle, or for how many more cycles. But I'm going to continue to hang out here for a while anyway. 
At this point we are still officially avoiding...
I am going crazy just dealing with my 1 1/2 year old...........ugh, she is going through a hard stage
is CF and not leukorrhea? If it's leukorrhea, you are safe those days. It seems strange that you'd go from sticky to watery to creamy and then back to watery/ewcf. Or is creamy your most fertile CF? What cd do you usually O?
