TWW Monday 8.16

pajamstagrams

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Month/Cycle: 

CD/DPO: 

Timing: 

Typical LP length: 

Testing: 

R/R: 

CS/Q: 

agesandstages

Month/Cycle: 3/2

CD/DPO: 15/4

Timing: good if I ovulated on the day I think I did (good signal from CBAD and cheapie OPKs, but no temp raise)

Typical LP length: unknown

Testing: 14 DPO

R/R: Great weekend getaway with my husband!

CS/Q: How precise does temping need to be for accuracy (e.g., timing, before sitting up)? I haven't seen a temp rise, but as I read more, I may not have been recording in an accurate enough way.

pajamstagrams

*lurking from WTO* 

@agesandstages you definitely want to try to temp while still laying down, at the same time of day, and ideally not have to dig for your thermometer in your nightstand, etc.  That being said, usually, I can get pretty decent results if I temp within an hour of my normal time. After that, my temps start shooting up if I'm too late. Sometimes I have to redo my temps because I left my mouth open (I kinda fall back asleep 🤣). But the longer you're awake, the higher the temp will be. 

Eta: usually a quick MOTN pee doesn't affect my temps either, even if I don't have 4 solid hours of sleep. But I can say that me staring at the ceiling for 1.5 hours until 3 am this morning probably affected it, and I read abnormally high this morning. 

SmashJam

@agesandstages everything @pajamstagrams said. I also agree a MOTN pee doesn't really affect, even if it's at 3am (I get up at 4:30). I feel like as long as I REM it's ok? If I wake up at 4am randomly  though I'll temp because I won't fall asleep in time before my alarm.

Glad you had a great weekend getaway!

Month/Cycle: 3/3

CD/DPO: 25/9

Timing: pretty good.

Typical LP length: 10-12 days

Testing: BFN today. Unsurprisingly.

R/R: gorgeous temps these last few days and spent so much time outside! It was 49 the last two mornings when I woke up, which is a great relief from the heat! Rant is that the house is a mess because I keep going outside instead, lol 

CS/Q: I could google this(and probably will) but when I was comparing charts on FF there were a couple that mentioned they were using menstrual cups...is there a reason to note that regarding TTC or cycles in general? Anyone know?

pinkkillersheep

lurking…
@agesandstages I only have a couple cycles of temping so I’m sure others could answer this better, but what I’ve noticed in myself is it at least doesn’t seem to matter whether I roll over or not. Haven’t had an instance of sitting up to say for sure on that. I seem to have some error in my temp when I wake up a couple hours early (5 AM) and temp later (7 AM), but only in my follicular phase. Also, took awhile for me to have a thermal shift (my first temping cycle was anovulatory and second one was 30 days before O), but once I did it was very obvious. It sucks but you just have to give it time and keep looking for patterns.