What is the best way to take basal body temperature if you think you are pregnant?

Answer 1

What is basal body temperature?
Basal body temperature (BBT) is your temperature when you first wake up in the morning. Before you even get out of bed to brush your teeth or start your day, pop a basal thermometer (available at drugstores) into your mouth. (It's important to try to wake up and take this reading at about the same time each morning.) This thermometer shows the minute incremental degree changes that a regular one can't. Most basal thermometers come with a temperature plotting chart.

Your BBT probably ranges from 97.2 to about 97.7 degrees before ovulation. During the two or three days after you ovulate, hormonal changes have caused a rise in your BBT of between 0.5 and 1.6 degrees, which lasts at least until your next period. You'll probably notice your temperature spiking on other days, but unless it stays that way, you probably haven't yet ovulated. If you become pregnant, your temperature will stay elevated throughout your pregnancy.

It's helpful to chart your temperature for a few months so you can see whether there's a pattern to your cycle. If you're sick or fail to take your temperature immediately upon awakening, any pattern you find may be inaccurate.

Answer 2

You must take it around the same time each morning BEFORE you rise out of bed. Keep it at your bedside. You can take it orally or vaginally, although I don't think many woman go that route. Either way get a thermometer especially made for BBT(basal body temp) and check it the same way each time. It is used to moniter ovulation. A bbt stays up after ovulation until next cycle. It will stay up during pregnancy, but by then you can take a hpt to see if you are prego.

Answer 3

Why do you want to take it to see if you're pregnant? It's used for charting your menstrual cycle and ovulation date. It won't show anything about whether you're pg or not.

Even still, basal always means resting/sleeping temp, so take it before you get out of bed in the morning, with a special basal thermometer

Answer 4

If you already think you are pregnant then it won't help now. Taking your basal body temps is to ensure you are ovulating and you can only tell if you are pregnant if you have 18 days of high temps after a thermal shift.