How To Track Your Basal Temp For Ovulation
If you are concerned you aren t ovulating bring your bbt chart to your gynecologist.
How to track your basal temp for ovulation. Ovulation may cause a slight increase in basal body temperature. If basal body temperature charting was the only way to find your fertile window we might not be so critical of it. There are better ways to track ovulation. 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.
When your basal body temperature rises higher than the temperatures you ve recorded in the past six days and stays at this level or increases for at least three days it s likely that ovulation. It can also help your doctor detect possible ovulatory infertility. After charting your bbt for a few months you ll be able to see whether there s a pattern to your cycle. In the first phase of the cycle bbt usually stays below 98 6 f 37 c.
Basal body temperature charting is a great way to track your cycles and ovulation patterns. Tools for tracking your bbt and cervical mucus. Next record the results on a chart. Before ovulation a woman s bbt averages between 97 f 36 1 c and 97 5 f 36 4 c.
This blank chart gives you a handy way to track your basal body temperature. Right before ovulation basal body temperature usually drops with a sharp increase right after ovulation. After ovulation it rises to 97 6 f 36 4 c to 98 6 f 37 c. The process for basal body temperature tracking is simple but it does require a small commitment.
Every morning before getting out of bed you ll take your temperature and note it on a chart. You can also use it to track your cervical mucus. You ll be most fertile during the two to three days before your temperature rises. You can track your cycle by taking your bbt every morning.
It s cool that charting your basal body temperature can give you insight into your body but for the limited information it gives you it just doesn t seem worth it to us. The basal body temperature method a fertility awareness based method is a type of natural family planning.