How To Chart Your Temperature For Ovulation
Your body temperature dips a bit just before your ovary releases an egg.
How to chart your temperature for ovulation. Using a special thermometer you can track your basal body temperature over time to estimate when you ll ovulate and figure out your most fertile days. You ll be most fertile during the two to three days before your temperature rises. Your cervical changes during that time will show an egg white type vaginal discharge at around the same time that your temperature dips a little bit before going up at the time of ovulation. The basal body temperature method a fertility awareness based method is a type of natural family planning.
The first step to charting your basal body temperature is getting a chart to record your temperature. In general the temperature range after ovulation is between 97 to 99 degrees at least two tenths of a degree greater than your temperature was during the previous week. See other ways to pinpoint your fertile days and get pregnant fast. After ovulation it rises to 97 6 f 36 4 c to 98 6 f 37 c.
A typical basal body temperature chart shows the changes in your bbt day to day. Signs you may be ovulating. Before ovulation a woman s bbt averages between 97 f 36 1 c and 97 5 f 36 4 c. Find out how to use an ovulation predictor kit chart your basal body temperature and pay attention to changes in cervical mucus.
The cervical mucus changes become favorable for pregnancy when you are 2 to 3 days before ovulation. You can find sample charts in some fertility books such as take charge of your fertility harper perennial 1995 a book considered by many to be the go to resource for basal body temperature charting guidance. Ovulation may cause a slight increase in basal body temperature. Then 24 hours after the egg s release your temperature rises and stays up for several days.
The menstrual cycle consists of two phases one taking place before ovulation and the other after which is why the normal basal body temperature chart is biphasic looking like a bird flying upwards. Mild cramps or twinges. Make sure you ve gotten at least three hours of uninterrupted sleep for the most accurate reading if you re using a smart bbt thermometer your temperature might get stored on your phone automatically. During ovulation your body releases the hormone progesterone which brings on a slightly raised temperature a day or two later usually by 0 5 degrees.
Your basal body temperature is your temperature when you re fully at rest. Your basal body temperature bbt is your lowest body temperature in a 24 hour period and it increases slightly right after you ovulate. Rise in basal body temperature.