How To Read Bbt Chart For Ovulation
It provides a clear graphical image of when ovulation occurs marked by a sharp rise in body temperature.
How to read bbt chart for ovulation. If you don t take your temperature immediately after waking up your bbt chart will not be accurate. While many women keep bbt charts as a way to predict ovulation there s actually soooooo much more a bbt chart can tell you and when ovulation is occurring is usually the least important. This article will go through the basics of reading bbt charts. Chart all of your fertility indicators.
You may know already that ovulation can be mapped from bbt charting but did you know that learning to read your bbt chart can give you incredible information about different hormonal imbalances in your cycle and in your body as well. The initial rise may last for a few days then the temperatures do rise again for the second time typically 7 to 10 days after ovulation. Your cycle data will be interpreted to help determine your ovulation date fertile days and. Using a basal body temperature chart is very easy but it requires a little bit of dedication.
A triphasic pattern indicates that progesterone rose a little bit more causing your temperatures to also. A bbt chart is biphasic. If you have a triphasic pattern on your bbt chart. The triphasic curve or stair step rise pattern happens to be a chart in which the temperatures do rise twice after ovulation thus creating 3 phases on the chart.
Before ovulation your bbt may range from about 97 2 to 97 7 degrees fahrenheit. This basal temperature rise will vary among women depending on several impacting fertility factors but will typically conform to a 0 4 to 1 0 f thermal spike. Charting basics how to use the chart and pin point ovulation fertility for beginners class. What is the normal basal body temperature.
You ll need to use a digital bbt thermometer a special type of thermometer that tracks temperature changes to a tenth of a degree to take your temperature every morning before you do anything else and log the results on a paper chart or in an app. 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. In fact with one look at a bbt chart i can usually pinpoint the major reasons a woman is struggling to get pregnant.