This will give you the necessary foundation to understand your personal charts. Body temperature is influenced by the cyclic ebb and flow of hormones in women. While men have a relatively static BBT, women see a noticeable difference in the pattern of their temps before and after ovulation. In order to get a clear understanding of when you are ovulating or pregnant, you will need to track your BBT daily.
You might also consider charting cervical mucus. You can use a regular BBT thermometer not to be confused with a fever thermometer to catch a resting temperature as you wake early each morning. Or you could buy a Tempdrop! Using a wearable fertility tracker like Tempdrop will make identifying your most accurate BBT seamless!
You will need to make a note of your daily temperature on your chart. You can use a printable paper-pencil chart or you can use Tempdrop's integrated charting app or another charting app of your choice.
Once you have a few months worth of data to review you will begin to notice patterns and trends. This study on implantation timing followed more than women, and most of the successful pregnancies implanted during that window. Some women experience symptoms with implantation such as cramping or light spotting, called implantation bleeding. For those tracking their BBT, the dip may be seen as another indicator, in addition to these possible other symptoms, that implantation was successful.
Although it may be a challenge, waiting for the day your period is supposed to start will give you the most reliable results. If your test is positive , consult your doctor for prenatal care.
If your test is negative , you can try again in a few days or consult your doctor if you still think you may be pregnant. Additionally, the dip was present in 11 percent of charts that did not result in pregnancy, and in 23 percent of charts that did.
These numbers mean that the implantation dip alone is not a reliable way to determine if you are pregnant or not. You can indeed be pregnant without the dip, and even with the dip you may not be pregnant. So, it should just be considered as one of many potential signs, rather than proof of pregnancy. While a dip might indicate two pink lines are on the way, it is definitely not a guarantee.
The best way to find out for sure is to persevere through the difficult 2-week wait and to test when you have missed your period. This means taking your temperature before you get out of bed and before eating or drinking anything. Take your temperature at about the same time every day. If you like to sleep in on the weekend you might have to set an alarm! Be sure to record your sexual activity on the chart too. You will see the jump in temperature the day after you ovulate.
The primary way to use a BBT chart to get pregnant is to look for patterns. Do you tend to ovulate on certain days of your cycle? Use this information to time intercourse better. For example, if over a three-month period you note that ovulation occurred on days 11, 12, and 15, then on your next cycle, you probably want to time sex between days 6 through 16, with special attention toward days 11 through You don't need to have sex on the day of ovulation to get pregnant.
If you have sex just a few times during those days before ovulation, that should be enough to get the sperm to the egg in time. Some couples try to have sex every other day the week before they expect ovulation. This is also a good plan. To make charting most effective for you, you should track more than just your morning temperature. Here are some other things you may want to notice and indicate on your chart.
Here are some other things you may want to record on a BBT chart:. One of the advantages of charting is you can see whether you are ovulating. If you're not ovulating, you can't get pregnant. If you are ovulating irregularly , it may indicate a possible infertility risk.
Lack of ovulation is called anovulation and is a common cause of female infertility. Most women with anovulation can take fertility drugs , which will trigger ovulation and hopefully help them get pregnant. Yes and no. Many women read into every little temperature fluctuation. It's part of the two-week wait obsession and the never-ending search for early pregnancy signs. There are four ways a BBT chart can indicate a pregnancy the possibility of pregnancy.
You can only know if and when you ovulated a few days after it happened in a BBT chart. You can look back on your chart and determine this. You are most likely to conceive if you had sex on the two days preceding ovulation. If you have an implantation dip on your BBT chart : An implantation dip is a one-day drop in temperature about a week after ovulation.
The majority of the time, an implantation dip is nothing more than a mid-cycle dip in temperature and does not indicate pregnancy.
If you have a triphasic pattern on your BBT chart : A triphasic temperature pattern is a second temperature increase occurring about one week after ovulation.
Seeing a triphasic pattern on your BBT chart is slightly more likely to indicate a potential pregnancy, but it is also no guarantee. A triphasic pattern indicates that progesterone rose a little bit more, causing your temperatures to also rise slightly more.
If your luteal phase is longer than normal : The most reliable way to detect pregnancy on a BBT chart takes patience. The old-fashioned method: By waiting to see if your luteal phase —the time between ovulation and your expected period—is longer than usual.
If you see that your luteal phase has gone at least one day past the usual length, you might be pregnant. This is a good time to take a pregnancy test. Not many women can wait that long without taking a pregnancy test. Still, it is the strongest early sign of pregnancy detectable with a BBT chart.
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