September 2010 Welcome to the September 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 "whatevering" , and continue to hang out here.
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Who We Are:
bbrandonsmom
Toolip
RaraAvis
lovebeingamomma
Smokering
HulaJenn
Smylingeyz
Guthu
LionessMom
knittinanny
katiedidbug
Got_Cloth
AnnieA
theboysmama
**mom2one**
Mom2SammyJoe
SomethingAnonymous
LisaN
mommyin2008
tellmemore
capretta
Xerxella
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
annie2186
TTC/TTW/No Longer TTA
Baby_Cakes
jeninejessica
BarefootScientist
MovingMomma
Good luck to those of us who are now TTC! Summary of FAM rules (sympto-thermal)
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 Plannin
g by John and Sheila Kippley
Breastfeeding and Natural Child Spacing: How Ecological Breastfeeding Spaces Babies by Sheila Kippley
Fertility, Cycles and Nutritio
n by Marilyn ShannonWebsites:
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)
Happy Charting Everyone!!
Katy, if you haven't I would suggest you test again. I was looking through my baby box last night and I looked at the pg tests I took 11 DPO. If I didn't know better, I would have thought they were negative. Better result 12 DPO on the dollar test but a nice clear line on the FRER.
I thought it was Katie but saw that it was posted as Katy when I checked the front page. One thing I was thinking is that I wonder if it's possible you didn't O until 2 days after FF put your crosshairs. It seems that even with that really low temp, it's still above your CL but you did discard a couple of higher temps so...Of course, that doesn't really help with the not being pg thing because that would mean you dtd the day before O, which would make pg even more likely. It may explain the longer lp, though.
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