Taking Your Basal Body Temperature You Predict When You Are Most Fertile

Learn to take your Basal Body Temperature (BBT), so that you know when you have just ovulated. Basal Body Temperature, alongside other signs of ovulation, such as the cervical mucus (CM) is very helpful to know when you have the greatest chances of getting pregnant. You can observe the natural pattern of your ovulation and have a better understanding when your body is ready for conception.

What is Basal Body Temperature?

Study shows that women who take their Basal Body Temperature (BBT) and observe their cervical mucus conceive faster, because they take responsibility and start noticing the signs of the approaching ovulation, so they rarely miss the moment to conceive, which is one of the most common reasons to have difficulties in having a baby.

Basal body temperature (BBT) is the temperature of the body just before waking. BBT fluctuates throughout your menstrual cycle. When you have just ovulated there will be a rise. BBT rises because of the increased levels of progesterone just after ovulation. Knowing this can help you to observe when you ovulate on a monthly basis and so you can find out patterns that will help you to predict in which days of the month you are most fertile.

How can you take you basal body temperature?

What you need to take your basal body temperature:

• Basal thermometer - this is a fertility thermometer which gives you the temperature to the one hundredth degree, and so makes the fluctuation during the menstrual cycle more obvious;
• BBT chart -- send an empty mail to get an artsy fun kit of charts for each month of the year automatically -- this is a special chart where you record your daily temps. These charts make it very easy to see the fluctuations throughout your cycle.

Important points to remember to take your BBT correctly:

• Take it just before waking, while you are still lying in bed and have not done any activity, even talking and stretching. Do not go to the bathroom first or do anything else.
• Take it at the same time every day.
• Take it daily right after your period stops
• Take it after at least three-hour sleep.

Tips to help you do it:

It is very useful to have an alarm clock which runs before you normally wake up or anyone might make you get up abruptly. If you have other children or anyone to take care of and do not wake up at the same time every day, try to predict when you have slept at least three hours before you take it. It is really not necessary to wake up completely. If you use a basal thermometer which saves at least the last reading, so that you do not have to write it or remember it when you measure it.

For accurate reading you need at least 3 hours sleep. If for any reason you miss a day, do not fret over it, it will not change dramatically the pattern that will emerge from your consistent readings.

How to interpret the BBT chart?

You have taken your basal body temperature all the month and now you want to know when you have ovulated. Look at the basal body temperature chart. You will see a rise somewhere in the middle of the menstrual cycle, the temp is higher until your period starts or you get pregnant. When you get pregnant, your basal body temperature will remain high.

The point of temperature rising is the day after the the ovulation. That's why you need to check also your Cervical mucus which can help you to know the time when you are about to ovulate. You check your cervical mucus with ovulation predictor kits (ovulation tests). Another option is a fertility monitor to predict ovulation.

What you can do right now?

-- you can send an empty mail to get immediately a BBT chart;

-- you can buy a fertility thermometer which saves the last reading;

-- you can get an alarm clock and set it at a time when you would have slept for at least three hours and can stay at least 5 minutes longer in bed and make it easy to check it at the same time every day;