How do I check my basal temperature?

Question

I am trying to count my days and find out when I am fertile. Can someone please explain to me the way the "checking you basal tempurater" work. Someone has told me that I need to do this, but not sure when I have to check. Thanks

Answer 1

# Take your temperature first thing in the morning before you get out of bed or even speak -- leave your thermometer at your bedside within easy reach so you don’t have to move much to get it. If you use a glass thermometer, make sure you shake it down before going to bed.

# Try to take the temperature at as close to the same time each day as possible -- set an alarm if you need to. Staying within a half hour either side of your average time is a good idea because your temp can vary with the time (i.e., if you usually take your temperature at 6 a.m., it is OK to take your BBT between 5:30-6:30, but the closer to 6 the better). The normal variation is by up to .2 degrees per hour -- lower if you take your temperature early, higher if you take it late.

# It is best to take your BBT after a minimum of 5 hours sleep, and at least 3 in a row is preferable.

# You can take your temperature orally, vaginally, or rectally -- just stay with the same method for the entire cycle.

# You should try to place the thermometer the same way each day (same location of your mouth, same depth vaginally and rectally).

# Plot your temperature on your chart each day, but refrain from reading too much into it until the cycle is done.

# Some women, not all, have a temperature drop when they ovulate. If you see this drop, it is a good idea to have sex in case you are ovulating.

# What you are looking for is a temperature shift of at least .4 degrees over a 48-hour period to indicate ovulation. This shift should be above the highest temperatures in the previous six days, allowing one temperature to be thrown out as inaccurate (fluke, illness). Perhaps the best way to explain this is to show an example.
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In the image above, the seven BBTs before ovulation are 97.2, 97.3, 97.8, 97.4, 97.2, 97.3, 97.0 then it jumps to 97.7 and then 98. Ovulation most likely occurred on the day with the 97.0 and you can comfortably draw a coverline at 97.6. You just ignore the 97.8 on day 10.

# After you see a temperature shift for at least three days, or at the end of your cycle, you can draw a coverline between your follicular phase and luteal phase temperatures. With luck, it is easy to see a clear shift and draw your line between the highest follicular phase BBT and the lowest luteal phase BBT as in the sample above. The main reason for drawing this line is just to clearly delineate that your chart is biphasic.

# Look at the chart at the end of the month to analyze what happened.

# Chart for a few months and look for patterns.

# If your temperature stays up for 18 days or more after ovulation, you should test for pregnancy.

Answer 2

you need to use a generic thermometer, yet i detect for charting applications, the basal is a lot greater helpful. i think of I paid $10 for mine at Walgreens. the belief is to take your temp each morning in the previous you do something in any respect, at the same time with sitting up in mattress. I set my alarm for 5am, take my temp & then circulate back to sleep. everybody's temperatures are diverse. Mine tend to be a splash bigger than the common, so there is incredibly no longer a sequence temperature you may conflict by using. you purely ought to examine your guy or woman physique's development. There are super charting web content obtainable. i take advantage of fertility buddy, yet i understand there are numerous thoughts accessible. actual, you temp each morning, enter it into your chart. once you ovulate, your temperature is going up a splash. the coolest thing approximately the charting application is it does discover ovulation. you additionally can save music of cervical mucus & different indicators on the internet website. After ovulation, your temperature spikes & it maintains to be bigger via something of your cycle. in case you're pregnant on the tip, it maintains to be extreme. in case you spot an important drop, you may assume your era quickly. I take my temp orally. the information I particularly have study says that once you have become volatile temperatures which you would be able to take them vaginally besides.

Answer 3

I have just started tracking my basal temparature and have found
fertilityfriend.com to be very helpful.

It is a free site and it has a tutorial, and explains on how to track and what to look for. You can enter all of your daily information on your chart. Check it out, it can be a bit confuusing, but this really helped...

Answer 4

1) Buy a basal thermometer
2) Insert it in your hoo-hoo
3) Wait about 5 minutes
4) Read the temperature

Answer 5

First thing in the morning before you do ANYTHING. Keep the thermometer by your bed.