Another NFP question

[yessisan]

For those of you who use STM, can you help me figure something out?

I have been waking up before my alarms goes off at 6:30am, and I take my temp then, just to see the differece from then till 6:30am. Sometimes, my temp before 6:30am is lower, sometimes higher than when I take it at 6:30. I don’t get up at that time, I just take my temp at that time to make sure I always take it at the same time.

So, the days I wake up before my alarm goes off, I take my temp, go back to sleep or try to go back to sleep and then my alarm goes off and take my temp again.

Which temp should I use for my charts? For expample… a few days ago, I woke up at 5:30am and took my temp. It was 97.1. I fell back asleep and at 6:30 I took it and it was 96.6. The room temperature didn’t change, I have the heater set at a certain temperature and I use my blankets, so I wasn’t cold. I was thinking of using the 96.6 temp, but I don’t know if I should.

Any suggestions on how to handle this chart-wise?

 

[Em_in_FL]

That’s a good question…
In those (few) cases for me (who wakes up BEFORE their alarm!?! )… I would actually chart BOTH, making little notes of the times next to the temperature dots…

Usually, a single data point can be thrown out if it’s an “outlier”… so I don’t worry about single day issues like that…

But if it happens regularly, then having the 2 temperatures charted would allow you to see the relative change from day to day…

Make sense? HTH!

 

[yessisan]

That’s a good question…
In those (few) cases for me (who wakes up BEFORE their alarm!?! )… I would actually chart BOTH, making little notes of the times next to the temperature dots…

Usually, a single data point can be thrown out if it’s an “outlier”… so I don’t worry about single day issues like that…

But if it happens regularly, then having the 2 temperatures charted would allow you to see the relative change from day to day…

Make sense? HTH!

It’s been happening alomost every day. In past charts, when it happened once or twice, I’d char both, but now it’s an almst every day thing… I guess I should chart them both anyway? This is going to make my charts more confusing…

 

[Em_in_FL]

It’s been happening alomost every day. In past charts, when it happened once or twice, I’d char both, but now it’s an almst every day thing… I guess I should chart them both anyway? This is going to make my charts more confusing…

Maybe… or maybe not… it might actually clear up things for you if you’re able to see the trends correctly…

Are you usually able to see a distinct temperature rise after ovulation? (at least 0.4 deg F jump)? Or is that still difficult to determine?

 

[yessisan]

Maybe… or maybe not… it might actually clear up things for you if you’re able to see the trends correctly…

Are you usually able to see a distinct temperature rise after ovulation? (at least 0.4 deg F jump)? Or is that still difficult to determine?

That’s a tough question. Before I was pg w/Julian, my temps would rise by .2 F then slowly reach .4 F. Then, the month I got pg it went up by .6F, same with the cycle following the m/c. This month it started again with .2 F, went down .1 F, then went up .4 F. Unless I’m reading this chart wrong (since the m/c I have a hard time interpreting), then it went up by .4 F.

 

[Em_in_FL]

That’s a tough question. Before I was pg w/Julian, my temps would rise by .2 F then slowly reach .4 F. Then, the month I got pg it went up by .6F, same with the cycle following the m/c. This month it started again with .2 F, went down .1 F, then went up .4 F. Unless I’m reading this chart wrong (since the m/c I have a hard time interpreting), then it went up by .4 F.

Yeah… It may help to have a second set of eyes look at your charts… maybe a local NFP teacher?
It’s hard to make guesses without seeing all the details, ya know?

Good luck… PM me if you need any help!!!

 

[yessisan]

Ok, so I just looked at my Art Of NFP book, and I guess I answered one of my questions. I had an overall thermal shift. Even thoughit went down it still counts since it was .1 F above the low temps.

So, now I just have to plot the other extra temps and see if I see a pattern.

Thanks for trying to help Emily. I think I’ll email my chart to my NFP instructor and see what he says.

 

[yessisan]

Since I got the waking up early part down, I wanted to post what I posted on the pregnant or not thread to see if someone could give me a hand with this…

yessisan:

Can someone help me out? Ever since the pregnancy, I cannot really read my charts. Well, last cycle was easy to interpret, but this one is kind of leaving me confused. Yessi’s chart I thought I had ovulated early, on cycle day 18 but I’m a bit unsure now.

The reason why I’m confused is that my temp went up by .2 degrees, then down by .1 degrees, and then up by .4 degrees. So I thought it’d be an overall thermal shift.

But then I started thinking that maybe the 97.7 would be my highest low temp and the 98 would be 1 dpo instead of 3 dpo. My high temps have NEVER been under 98.0. They are always 98 and up. My lowest low has been 97.5 in 9 months. My highest low has been 97.8. So, should I count what I thought as my overall thermal shift as the shift? I would be 5 dpo. If not, then I’d be 3 dpo today. Oh and the earliest I’ve ever ovulated is cycle day 19.

I’m confused Another reason why I’m confused is that I am using ovusoft too and according to ovusoft, I am on 3 dpo today.

I’m trying to figure out if I have a chance at being pregnant or not. If I did ovulate early, then I do. If I ovulated on cycle day 20, then no. I hate this chart. It’s the most confusing one I’ve had. Not even the ones from when I got off the pill were this hard for me to interpret.

Oh, and here’s the ovusoft one too so you can see why I’m confused.