How to take your Basal Body Temperature

How to take your Basal Body Temperature

Your Basal Body Temperature can be taken orally with a normal mercury thermometer or a basal digital thermometer. Ideally, a larger thermometer that registers from 96F to 100F / 34C to 39C degrees (in easy-to-read one-tenth degree increments) is recommended.

Important: Your BBT temperature refers to a 'resting' or 'base' temperature. That means that your BBT must be measured prior to any physical activity, after at least four hours of sleep.

1. Taking Your BBT Temperature
Take your BBT temperature first thing each morning - as soon as you wake up. You must remain in bed (as physical activity can increase your temperature) and avoid eating or drinking or even moving. Either insert the thermometer in your mouth - or alternatively your rectum - and wait five minutes. Read the temperature to within 1/10 of a degree and record the reading.

2. Charting Your BBT Temperature
Starting on day one of your menstrual cycle - the first day of your period - begin recording your BBT temperature using a calendar or notebook and graph paper. Each morning, record your temperature. Plot each day's BBT on the graph. Your temperature rise may be sudden, gradual, or in steps. The pattern may vary from cycle to cycle.

3. Predicting Ovulation, menstruation and Pregnancy
For most women, 36.2 to 36.5 degrees is considered normal prior to ovulation and 36.7 to 37.1 degrees after ovulation. By charting the differences - in one-tenth degree increments - you can determine when ovulation has taken place. Typically a rise of at least 0.4 to 0.6 degrees will take place after ovulation, though for different women the temperature increases may be sudden or gradual.

Pretty common for women who find their temperature cross 36.7 degree as the point of their ovulation day

And when your temperature drop down back to the normal range , your menstruation would start within the 24hrs. Another way of predicting your menstruation day is by adding 10 to 14 days from your ovulation day (the day when you detected a sudden increase of temperature).

18 consecutive days of ovulation high temperatures means a woman is almost certainly pregnant

recent studies show that if your BBT chart show signs of triphasic pattern (3 time of upward shift temperature within the cycle) there is sign of possible pregnant.

BBT Limitations in Ovulation Prediction

BBT charting only tells you when ovulation has already occurred - and is therefore important for predicting general patterns. To predict ovulation, LH testing (ovulation predictor kits) is more effective - and examining cervical mucus is also a very valuable method.

Ways To Get Pregnant - relaxing enough ?

Ways to Get Pregnant

4. Getting rid the unnecessary stress that is delaying your ovulating

Problem:
stress can affect the functioning of the hypothalamus. This is the gland in the brain that regulates appetite and emotions, as well as the hormones required to release the eggs in women and produce testosterone in men. If you or your partner are feeling stressed, you may feel less interested in having sex and may not have sex as often, which isn't going to help you get pregnant. If the effect of stress on your normal hormone levels is severe then it could result in you ovulating later in your cycle than usual or not at all. This is a recognised condition, which is sometimes called "stress-induced anovulation".

It's important to differentiate between constant and sudden stress. Your body often gets used to constant, everyday stresses so you'll probably ovulate fairly consistently each cycle. It's a sudden stress, such as a death in the family, which can throw your cycle off and interfere with conceiving. But this varies from woman to woman. Some women find that even a business trip away can delay ovulation, while others find that a severely traumatic incident doesn't affect their cycle at all.

It's also important to note that positive stress can affect your cycle; again, you might ovulate later or not at all. Brides often report strange cycles because they're happily stressed about their weddings. Women who go back-packing round the world may also find their periods stop temporarily. It doesn't matter that the stress is good; it can still affect ovulation.

If you're trying to get pregnant and you're under stress, your cervical mucus may give you a warning that something's wrong. Rather than noticing increased cervical wetness as you approach ovulation, you might find patches of wetness interspersed with dry days; it's as if your body is trying to ovulate but the stress continues to delay it. You won't know that you've ovulated unless you're using a method of detection, such as ovulation predictor kits or charting your basal body temperature and cervical mucus. Even then you may not be totally sure that you've ovulated;

Best way to do it:
The good news is that stress-induced delays to ovulation should not stop you getting pregnant. That is provided you are having sex every two to three days throughout your cycle, which is the frequency fertility experts recommend to optimise your chances of success. Also if you have completely stopped ovulating as a result of stress, you can be treated with hormone therapy to get your system going again or some experts recommend cognitive behaviour therapy for better long-term health results.

Ways To Get Pregnant - what you eat ?

Ways To Get Pregnant

3. eat correctly and properly that will boost your fertility and increase your egg health.

Problem: Overweight
Are your eating correctly and properly? You may have a improper eating lifestyle that defer you from conceiving.
Research have found that extreme weight gain /loss have a direct impact of your hormones balance. If you are already overweight, obese, overly fat, then your chances of getting pregnant will have drop -80% out of 20% that will be left 4% of chances getting conceiving.

Best way to do it:
maintain a healthy weight. You can always check your healthy weight status by using the BMI calculator . For a normal healthy weight , your BMI should keep to 18.5-24.9, on average of 21.7

What you can do is Regular exercise, proper meals at the proper time.
(There is a large pool of advise on the weight management that can be easily found from the internet.)

Tips 1:
You should eat carbohydrates with a protein and not alone. Eat proteins in a ratio of 1:1 with carbohydrates. For example, if you eat 4 ounces of cooked rice, you should also eat 4 ounces of chicken or tempeh at the same time. This will help forestall blood sugar spikes that can affect your fertility and fertilized egg attachment. You can consume protein powders (an occasional choice), eggs (the best choice for fertility), raw dairy, fish, or meats.

Tips 2:
Getting enough calcium is important to keep your body in an alkaline state, which is important for fertility. You can get calcium from dark leafy green vegetables, organic cottage cheese or yogurt, other organic dairy products, quinoa, almonds, seaweed, sesame seeds, and other calcium rich foods.

Tips 3:
You also need to get a certain amount of fat in your diet to produce the proper hormones. Remember that fat is not the enemy. It provides essential vitamins such as vitamin A that you need for good health. In addition, if you're trying to get pregnant, you need to avoid very low-fat diets. Instead, focus on getting a moderate amount of fat from healthy sources such as organic meats and dairy, flax seed, olive, and fish oils.

Tips 4:

Fertility Cycle Nutrition Diet guidelines

Drink clean water.

Don't ingest refined sugars or processed fruit juices; you can consume freshly squeezed juices.

Don't consume soy unless it's fermented, such as tempeh or miso.

Only eat whole, natural grains.

Eat protein and carbohydrates in balance with each other, in a ratio of 1:1.

Eat enzyme rich foods at every meal.

Eat free-range organic chicken.

Eat organic, grass fed red meats.

Eat fish at least three times per week.

Eat small amounts of organic dairy products only.

Eat organic vegetables and fruits.

Tips 5:
breakfast is even more important, since it kick starts your metabolism and can help balance your blood sugar levels. The two foods you should definitely avoid for better fertility are coffee and any processed sugars.

Ways To Get Pregnant - when do you intercourse ?

Ways To Get Pregnant

2. how often you should be having intercourse to increase your chances of conceiving

Problem: One of the most important components of getting pregnant is knowing when you should be having intercourse to enable you to get pregnant.
you need to make sure you are having intercourse during your fertile window. That means the several days that are leading up to ovulation, and also the day after you ovulate. Assuming you have used one of the several methods to figure out when your fertile days are, you also need to know how often you should be having intercourse to increase your chances of conceiving.

Best way to do it :

Avoid 1: It is not a good idea to have intercourse several times a day in an effort to increase your conception odds. In fact, this can have the opposite effect. There will not be enough good quality sperm if the male partner ejaculates several times a day over the course of a few days.

Avoid 2: On the other extreme, it is also not a good idea to "save up the sperm" by waiting for the "fertile window" in hopes that you will then have alot of extra sperm to increase the chances of conceiving. This too, can have the opposite effect. The sperm supply needs to be flushed out to be kept fresh, so "saving it up" will cause a lot of sperm to be stale, and sluggish.

Try 1: to have intercourse either every day or every other day starting several days before you actually ovulate. The every day approach is slightly more favorable, but only if you are certain there are no issues with sperm count.

Try 2 best coverage: it might be best to vary this by trying every other day one month and every day another month just so you have all your bases covered. This way, if the sperm quality/count is not the best, you'll be doing the more favorable every other day approach as well.

Ways To Get Pregnant - when do you ovulate ?

Ways To Get Pregnant

1. determine approximately what time each month that you do ovulate.

Problem:
Part of the problem is the widely held notion that women ovulate on day 14 of their cycle. This myth comes from the false assumption that women have a perfect 28 day cycle and ovulate right in the middle. The truth is, many women have cycles that are much shorter or longer than this, and they don't necessarily ovulate at the halfway point. There is a great range which is personal to each women, and therefore it is fundamental that you get to know your body and figure out what time of the month you are generally ovulating. Also keep in mind that this can change from month to month. It's quite common to ovulate on day 13 or 14 or 15 or even 16 for the same woman on different months.

It is important to note, the best way to get pregnant is to make sure the sperm is "waiting" before the egg is released. The sperm can live for approximately 3-5 days inside a woman, but the egg only lives for about 12-24 hours. So, for the best chance of conceiving, it is best to time intercourse for several days leading up to ovulation and on the day of ovulation too.

Best way to do it:
Choice 1 : Basal body temperature. The best way to do that is to get a basal body thermometer and chart your temperature each morning upon waking, before doing anything else. If you do this for some time you will see that your temperatures rise each month a few tenths of a degree and then stay up until your period comes. This shift in temperatures signifies that you have indeed ovulated. Once you have a good idea when this occurs month to month, you will have a better chance of predicting when you might be ovulating.
Keeping your temperature chart regularly will help to detect possible female fertility problems such as short luteal phase that leads to insufficient progesterone production.

How to do it : Basal body temperature <- Click to find out. For what type of people: Anyone, who willing to keep track their temperature shift regularly.
and for people not willing to spend big bucks on test kits.

Choice 2: ovulation test kits. Using ovulation test kits will give you a helpful indicator of when ovulation is approaching. Usually the test will predict ovulation within about 36 hours, so once the test turns positive, it is important to have intercourse that day and for the next couple of days until your temperature shows that you have already ovulated.

How to do it : buy ovulation test kits from any pharmacy.
For what type of people: Anyone,who can't keep their temperature shift tracking regularly
and for people willing to spend big bucks on test kits.