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Hello,
We've decided hat we want to try to have kids this summer so I've just gone off my BC. I don't want to get pregnant yet but I've heard that you need a few months to start ovulating but I don't want to take a chance of conceiving yet. I've been looking at different websites for this charting and I'm getting different answers. Is there a simple rule to follow to figure this out? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
TIA
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Re: Charting help
Well you can ovulate the first month off BC. I would suggest buying taking charge of your fertility and trying out fertilityfriend.com. Gl when the time comes!
It's different for everyone - some people can get pregnant right off BC and some people take up to a year for their body to regulate. Charting will help allow you to see what your body is doing.
You can buy the book "Taking Charge of Your Fertility" if you want or check out FertilityFriend.com and read their tutorials on charting.
The basic concept is you have to use a basal body thermometer - it will give you the temp 98.52 vs 98.5 - you need that extra # in the temp to chart correctly. You have to take it the same time each morning for your chart to "work". You need at least four hours of uninterupted sleep and you cannot do anything before you take your temp, no talking, getting up, sitting up until your thermometer beeps.
You plug in your temp to the chart each day and after three days of a rise above your base line it's safe to say you ovulated. Charting will tell you you've ovulated AFTER the fact so don't use it as BC until you've figured out if you have a set fertile time.
Not every woman will have a set cycle, I ranged from 30 days to 56 days depending on my body so I couldn't chart to abstain because I never knew when I would ovulate. Everyone is different and after you have about three charts under your belt you should be able to figure out what your body is doing. Best of luck!
Honestly, I read Taking Charge of Your Fertility, but I still wasn't clear. My cycles were not textbook normal and I had a hard time figuring out if I O'd or not.
DH and I attended the Natural Family Planning (NFP) class offered by the Archdiocese of Detroit and that was great. It was 1:1 instruction in learning how to read my crazy charts. You don't have to be Catholic to attend. It was very in-depth and helped make sense of the Taking Charge book. Below is link to 2011 NFP classes:
https://www.aodonline.org/aodonline-sqlimages/NaturalFamilyPlanning/PDF/SpecialEvents/All_NFP_Schedule.pdf