Good thing this is my first cycle...cause I am soo confused

tonna621 · #1 July 31st, 2009, 05:49 AM

At first I thought that when your temp went up you were ovulating, then I realized that it goes down and then back up. after. So when i was looking at my chart and my cervical mucus,, it made me confused. but maybe its because i just got my iud out or i don't know how to tell. Yesterday morning my cervical mucus seemed ew then in the afternoon it was whitish and blobby, or creamy and it is that way today. FF when i logged on said that today was my o day, probaly because of my cm. After i added my temp in it said i o'd on the the 14th which the only day we bd'd anyway. I wasn't really trying this cycle. What do you think? If you understood that.

Admin-pattyandthemoos · #2 July 31st, 2009, 06:02 AM

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Originally Posted by tonna621

At first I thought that when your temp went up you were ovulating, then I realized that it goes down and then back up. after. So when i was looking at my chart and my cervical mucus,, it made me confused. but maybe its because i just got my iud out or i don't know how to tell. Yesterday morning my cervical mucus seemed ew then in the afternoon it was whitish and blobby, or creamy and it is that way today. FF when i logged on said that today was my o day, probaly because of my cm. After i added my temp in it said i o'd on the the 14th which the only day we bd'd anyway. I wasn't really trying this cycle. What do you think? If you understood that.

Okay first off, I think FF has your o date marked wrong. I don't know that you have ovulated yet. You still have a lot of fertile signs that you shouldn't be seeing AFTER you ovulate. Once you ovulate your CM should dry up and your CP should move to a lower position. The IUD can throw off your cycles for a bit but you should return to normal pretty quickly.

I would mark ewcm on your chart yesterday if it looked clear and stretchy. If it was white and lotiony looking I would mark it as creamy. Some gals will get creamy cm before they ovulate that turns over to ewcm.

When you ovulate you will see a temp spike on your chart. When you see this temp spike look at the previous six temperatures before you had the temp spike. Your temperature after you ovulate should be higher than your last six temperatures. If you see this has happened you can draw your coverline. You draw your coverline 1 tenth of a degree higher than the highest temp you had during those six days. (Now FF doesn't draw your coverline this way so don't let this confuse you)

Once you have your coverline drawn you can tell if you have ovulated by seeing that you have three sustained higher temps after you ovulate. They should stay above your coverline for three days. They may not be consecutively higher day after day but they SHOULD be above your coverline (or higher than your last six preo temps). They could fall back down but again they should stay above your coverline. Occassionally you will see a chart with an unusual pattern that falls below the coverline but that is not typical.

I don't think you have o'd yet because you are still having fertile CM and your didn't have a very strong thermal shift. I think you may be about to ovulate though. Or you could have a slow rising shift but in either case I don't think you o'd on the day FF has you marked. I would keep trying to bd. I think you may see a strong thermal shift soon!