How Do You Temp?

RunNanny

Hey ladies! So I just started temping this week (end of my 1st month) and I've been temping by mouth. Thinking about changing to temp vaginally (next month) because everything I've read says it more accurate, especially if you sleep with your mouth open. I sometimes sleep with my mouth open, but it's not every night so it's not consistent.

Just curious...What does everyone else do on temping? And those that changed to temping vaginally, did you notice a more consistent chart? TIA!

dixielee05

I temp vaginally. It made a big difference in my charts since I am a mouth breather sometimes. I could still see a clear shift before, but it is much clearer now.

themrsJRD

I temp by mouth, but I don't think I breathe through my mouth very often. If you aren't able to see a temp shift, I'd definitely try switching to vaginal temping.

Even though I don't temp vaginally, my husband calls the thermometer my vagmometer. Lol. He is like fifteen years old sometimes.

RunNanny

Thanks girls! themrsJRD, that's hilarious!

TravelingCouple

I temp orally, my temps seem to be all over the place so it's definitely catching the shifts. This is my first full month temping.

flowerx2

I have been temping vaginally for the last two months. I felt that I was mouth breathing too much so I switched.  I was able to see a temp shift both ways.  I find temping vaginally easier than orally.  

elizabethb3

DaisyCat11:

I temp orally. I'm not awake enough when I temp to be putting things in my vag. I do mouth breath sometimes, but I can still see a clear shift.

I'm pretty sure I breath through my mouth quite a bit and so far I've been temping orally. I'm kind of on the fence about switching to vaginally next month, but I'm leaning toward continuing to temp orally. I agree with DaisyCat that I don't know if I'm awake enough for it to be safe, ha ha! Also, I'm pretty sure I'd have a harder time falling back asleep.

I figure if I can see the temp shift, that's all that really matters. I don't need to have a super perfect looking chart. (And I'm a perfectionist!)  

rockopera

DaisyCat11:

I temp orally. I'm not awake enough when I temp to be putting things in my vag. I do mouth breath sometimes, but I can still see a clear shift.

this. I fall back asleep sometimes with the therm in my mouth and the beep wakes me back up. I imagine the beep wouldn't phase me from down there and I'd just stay asleep with a therm in my vag until my next alarm goes off.  

merebear09

I just started temping by mouth this month and FF was able to find crosshairs.

jjgrl55

DaisyCat11:

I temp orally. I'm not awake enough when I temp to be putting things in my vag. I do mouth breath sometimes, but I can still see a clear shift.

 

Yeah, I've given myself some pretty nasty vag stabs with my thermometer trying to put it in while half asleep. 

britt6292

This is only my second cycle temping but I do it orally. I am a mouth breather but last month I saw a clear shift and got crosshairs on FF.

NurseMom2007

In the vag. Mostly because putting a thermometer in my mouth makes me gag, but also because its more accurate. My chart is jagged anyway because of my inconsistent waking time, but it has been less jagged since I switched.

angelsnight

I switched to vaginal after I heard it could be more consistent.  I don't know if it was better because I wasn't Oing back then so I never got to see.  But I found for my own comfort, I disliked vaginal temping.  I am so out of it and half asleep in the morning, it's a pain to move the covers, and my short arms combined with the fact that I am stiff and often have a bit of a sore back in the morning it just wasn't good.

I find it much easier to just lay there, grab the therm, stick it in my mouth and often doze off to sleep while it's  working.  Plus I've still been able to see a clear temp shift from mouth temping.

coopsbaby

jjgrl55:

DaisyCat11:

I temp orally. I'm not awake enough when I temp to be putting things in my vag. I do mouth breath sometimes, but I can still see a clear shift.

 

Yeah, I've given myself some pretty nasty vag stabs with my thermometer trying to put it in while half asleep. 

 

ITA with everything DaisyCat said. Andplusalso... ouch on the vag stabs. So glad I can see a shift temping orally so I don't have to experience that!