Advice on how to chart temperature

[Sleepingstarsmommy]

Can any of you more knowledgeable ladies offer me any advice on how to monitor my basal body temp? Or point me in the direction of a useful book/website to read up on it?

All I know is Im supposed to take my temp first thing in the morning? Does it have to be at the same time every morning? What changes am I looking for??

Sign up with fertility friend. They will email you a charting course. That tells you everything you need to know.

Yes i 2nd Fertility Friend, my sister recommended it to me (but i am too lazy to temp) but she swore by it

Thanks ladies. Have signed up to it. Now just have to see whether I can remember or be bothered to temp at the right time everyday.

Yes that was my problem, i couldn't be bothered to wake up at the exact time every day!! Although i do shift work and wake up at different times every other week, so it would have been a total pain in the arse if i had done it.

My sister also sent me a book, which i only read the first page of which was very interesting

I need to pop out but will have a look for it when i get back.

Taking charge of your fertility by Toni weschler. Fabulous book. Tells you everything you need to know, not much on amazon. Plus sign up with fertility friend (iPhone app for it is free, you only need the basic membership).

Taking charge of your fertility by Toni Weschler

I charted BBT in month three of TTC and fell pregnant that month (now 20 weeks)! Used "MeFertil" iPhone app to track. Kept thermometer on bedside table and used to measure daily before getting out of bed/drinking water / kissing OH. My readings weren't THE most accurate but they did show me general up and down pattern and I knew when I was ovulating and as it turned out because I was waiting for BBT to drop pre AF I also realised I might be pregnant. Tested on day AF due and got faint BFP! Worth the 69p I paid for app!!

Eventually you get into a habit of just popping the thermometer in your gob first thing, but it takes a while! Fertility friend is great. I signed up for a proper (paid) account with extra features when actively TTC and now just use the basic free account to keep track of my cycles. You really don't need the extra features mind you; I just wanted to obsess over the similarities between my chart and others' in the TWW.
Taking charge of your fertility is also good, covers a lot of information.

I thought i would pop back on just to say in case you do end up being a bit lazy like moi, you could try my method too

I tried for 4 months just general dtd whenever, then stepped it up a gear and starting using OPk's, (Ovulation predictor kit) OPK'd the first month (using cheapo ones from wilkos) didn't get a positive, but mananged a darkish line so still dtd when i thought i was fertile, 2nd month i used the opk's and followed the SMEP (sperm meets egg plan) which basically means shagging every other day, using OPk's when you get a + shag for the next three days, skip a day and then shag the next day. That got me a BFP, (which sadly ended in miscarriage :( )

Any questions, just ask!!

HTH