@LemonBitter Im sure if you test before you leave for work and when you get home that will be enough to not miss a surge!
I think Seville and that article have probably covered the cervix stuff but yeah basically as you approach ovulation your cervix gets higher and feels softer (like lips or the inside of your mouth) whereas when you’re not fertile it tends to sit lower and feel firmer (like the tip of your nose).
That, along with cervical fluid becoming more like egg white, are good indicators that you’re getting closer to ovulating/ are fertile.
Once you ovulate, the cervix pretty swiftly goes back to the infertile position of lower and firmer, with no egg white CF. So it helps to confirm ovulation too. (I read this all in the book ‘taking charge of your fertility’).
So as of yesterday evening it was clear from my softer/higher cervix that I’m now in the fertile phase which also lines up with starting to get some ewcm (and the fact that I’m 3-4 days away from predicted ov).
@Sevillegarden I am exactly the same as you, I used to have 28 days cycles (14 day luteal) but since baby, I now ovulate around CD19/20 and have an 11-12 day LP. Until I started monitoring BBT, I was completely missing the timing on ovulation. I thought it’d eventually even out again to a regular 28 days but that hasn’t happened so far (cycle 7ish of trying and 15 months postpartum).
Looking like I’ll ovulate this weekend. I never do pregnancy tests anymore though as I can tell from my temperature around 10dpo that I’m not pregnant and am going to get my period soon. Somehow that always feels less disappointing than seeing a blank test strip