TTC advice

Ok, basically you take your temp with a special thermometer called a BBT or fertility thermometer (from a chemist). You take it at the same time every day, as soon as you wake up, before you get out of bed, have a drink of water etc. I used to set the alarm to go off at 6am so that I got my temp at the same time every day and then go back to sleep until Maya woke up.

Then you plot them on a graph (which comes with the thermometer, or try the online version at www.fertilityfriend.com) Basically what you should see if you are ovulating is a series of low temps early in your cycle, followed by a sudden rise and a series of higher temps. The day that you see a temp rise means that you have ovulated the day before. Some people get a slight dip on the day they ovulate and then a sharp rise te following day confirms it.

There are no right or wrong temps, basically when you look at the chart as long as you see two clear, separate phases you can be sure you are ovulating.

Also, disrupted sleep, sleeping with your mouth open etc. can affect your temps too.

I found www.fertilityfriend.com to be the best source of info.

Hope this isn't too complicated! the thermometers (mine cost $20) come with full instructions too.

Also, the only way you can confirm ovulation is that there has to be 6 lower temperatures followed by 3 higher temperatures- unless this happens then you haven't ovulated. Lots of people think that if they have had fertile mucus and maybe O pain followed by a temp spike then they have o'd but the rise has to last for 3 days or it doesn't count.