I didn't ever look much in to BBT charting or natural family planning. The most I had heard about it up until recently was that it was something done in the Catholic church, and seeing that we're not Catholic, it wasn't ever something we considered. After having my IUD removed I wanted a way to figure out when I was ovulating. I have heard horror stories of IUDs causing infertility and women not ovulating for 4-5 months after removal. Daddy B and I are wanting to wait long enough to give my body a chance to return to normal (and also aim to have a May 2012 baby!), but we don't want to wait 5 months!!
I had heard of BBT charting so I thought I'd give it a shot to help me figure out when I was ovulating this time around. When I was tracking my cycle before we conceived Baby C, I had about a 32 day cycle and seemed to ovulate right in the middle, around day 16. While I was on the IUD, I had regular periods that were very light and they varied in length from 29-32 days long.
Here's a good link explaining how BBT charting works. Anyway, I started taking my temperature on the last day of the period I seemed to get 2 days after removal. I've been charting ever since every day at 6 am. I was using one site that said I never ovulated, but then ventured over to Fertility Friend and plugged in my data. It said I ovulated! It was the same day I was getting crazy symptoms and Daddy B and I actually decided to take a pregnancy test just to make sure I wasn't. (I wasn't!) I just wasn't used to having ovulation symptoms after NOT having them for over 2 years!
Here's what my cycle has looked like over the past three weeks:
See that huge dip that just happened today? I took that this morning and was shocked my temp went from 97.5 to 96.8. Then I went to the restroom when I woke up and I was starting another cycle! It is so cool that my body temperature reflects that! But now I have no idea how long my cycle is going to be. I guess we'll just wait another month and find out!
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