Your Basal Body Temperature.

The first thing that I would suggest anyone to start off with is tracking their Basal Body Temperature.

According to Wikipedia, “Basal body temperature is the lowest temperature attained by the body during rest (usually during sleep). It is generally measured immediately after awakening and before any physical activity has been undertaken, although the temperature measured at that time is somewhat higher than the true basal body temperature. In women, ovulation causes an increase of one-half to one degree Fahrenheit (one-quarter to one-half degree Celsius) in basal body temperature (BBT); monitoring of BBTs is one way of estimating the day of ovulation. The tendency of a woman to have lower temperatures before ovulation, and higher temperatures afterwards, is known as a biphasic pattern. Charting of this pattern may be used as a component of fertility awareness.”


Charting your temperature is the first step towards really being able to understand what is going on with your body. It is best that you buy a digital thermometer so that you can get an accurate result. Make sure you take your temperature first thing in the morning before you even get out of bed and also chart it. There are many different ways that you can chart your BBT (basal body temperature), you can print a calendar and chart it that way or you can get a specific BBT chart. There are also many online programs that can be used to help chart your BBT.

Here is a site where you can print off a BBT chart that you can use:

http://www.womenshealth.gov/pregnancy/mom-to-be-tools/basal-temperature-chart.pdf

This site gives step by step on charting your BBT:

http://www.babycenter.com/ovulation-chart

And this site gives an example of a completed BBT chart:

http://assets.babycenter.com/ims/Content/bbt_sample_chart.pdf