Advice on charting BBT

xlittlerosebudx

I'm in nursing school right now and I work at the hospital part-time so I have a pretty odd sleep schedule.  On the days I have to work, I'm up at 5:30am.  On days I have class, I usually let myself sleep in a little so I don't get up until 9:30am.  On my days off from both, I try not to set an alarm at all so I could sleep as late as 11:30am or so.  When I'm charting my temp, does it need to be the same time every morning, or should it just be whenever I wake up?  I would think for it to be the most accurate, it would have to be the same time.  Should I just set an alarm for 5:30am every morning and hope I can go back to sleep on the days I can sleep later?

How do you ladies do it?

kali55

With DS I had been up at different times and just measured it when I could and marked the time on FF.  I have a lot of open circles but I can still see a shift

 

GL! 

Rocknroll64

I would set your alarm for 5:30am every morning and on the days that you don't have to go to the hospital just temp and then go back to sleep.  Thats what I do on weekends. I still wake up at 630am to temp but then go back to sleep.  Unless I've been drinking, then I just don't bother to temp.

Valie18

For your health I think you may want to regulate you sleep a little more if possible. Between 5:30 and 11:30 is a really big swing.

We wake up at 5:50 during the week and at 7:50 on the weekend. We recognize that there is going to be an elevated temp from sleeping in. When TTA we knew when to expect my spike and if it was on the weekend we woke up early to avoid misinterpreting the chart. We don't worry about it so much now that we're TTGP - we HIO.

mrs_tacos

ashleysyn2:

I would set an alarm for 5:30 and try to go back to sleep afterwards on days you don't have to get up. I have an early alarm set but most of the time I don't actually get up that early.

This. I wake up to temp at 6:30 every morning anyway just because I found that I got more consistent results if I did that vs charting when I get up. 

xlittlerosebudx

Thank you for the advice!  When AF finally shows up I think I will try setting a daily alarm and then I'll see what happens from there.

awisern

I'm a nurse...on my work days my alarm goes off at 5am. I still use the 5am alarm to temp on my days off and then I go back to sleep until 8-9 when DS wakes up.

brookeK1990

I just started temping yesterday but habe an alarm set every day of the week for 620 (its the time I get up for school on the week days) . I hit the snooze so I ended up temping at 630 but im trying my nest to temp between 620 and 630 lol

 

rtv3

My 1st month charting I just temped whenever I woke up (between 5-7 with a couple of 9 o'clock weekends) and my temps were all over the place to the point that FF didn't give me any cross-hairs. This cycle I temped at 5 (when DH gets up) every morning and got a clear temp shift

mmb248

I don't have to get up until 7-7:30, but I have my "temp" alarm set for 5:30 because DH leaves for work so early and he tends to wake me up.  I have no problems getting back to sleep and honestly, I usually fall asleep with the thermometer in my mouth, wake up when it beeps, then go back to sleep.  When my "wake up" alarm goes off, I look at the thermometer, record the temp and go on with my morning routine.

Same thing for the weekends, except no "wake up" alarm.