[Admin-pattyandthemoos]

Here is what I did wrong this month. I set my temp time too late in the morning and have had a hard time temping at the same time consistantly because of this.

I also bought two thermometers because I lost my thermometer this month.

I didn't temp consistently, I checked my CM alll wrong, I just was really erratic with tracking things. Now I'm almost OCD about charting. I almost blew up this morning when I couldn't find my thermometer...the cats had stolen it!

[Tiff802]

I got creamy and EWCM mixed up and charted that I had EWCM instead of creamy, then when I really got EWCM I realized I was wrong on the other days, so I had to go back and change it.

As we've talked about before, I thought my CP was high, when it was really medium and had to go back and change it after it really went high.

Also, with checking my CP I did it in the morning and then different times of the day, morning is not a good time for me!!! I get a much better "reading" in the evening and if I do it at the same time everyday. I didn't know that different movements can effect the position. i.e. getting up from sleeping all night, my cervix was much higher then if I had been walking around. Oh, and this took me until this cycle to realize, but it's best for me to be sitting (on the toilet-sorry for the visual ) to check it. I was checking it kind of squating, again, no good for me.


Wow, I'm really long winded today!

[sjkduke]

I didn't temp consistently, I checked my CM alll wrong, I just was really erratic with tracking things. Now I'm almost OCD about charting. I almost blew up this morning when I couldn't find my thermometer...the cats had stolen it![/b]

My cats do the same thing! It doesn't matter where I put that darn thermometer, they TAKE it!

I was very inconsistant with the times I took my temp. I'm very dilligent about it now.

My cats do the same thing! It doesn't matter where I put that darn thermometer, they TAKE it!

I was very inconsistant with the times I took my temp. I'm very dilligent about it now.
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OMG, I seriously can't leave them out at night.....last night they stole BOTH my thermometers. I'm going to have to tape the freaking thing down tonight!

[Proverbs31Mom]

I had three of four days of temp before the cycle that just ended and just had to discard it because, I used a different therm every morning, woke up at different time every morning, and didnt have at least three hours of sleep ANY of the mornings. Didnt make sense keeping it.

At the same time, didnt know how to differentiate CM or which to record when you have two types in one day!! What a mess!

[andi2284]

My biggest problem is getting a chance to take my temps at the same time every morning. I wake up when my daughter does, which varies by almost 2 hours sometimes. Also, if she gets up, it's usually only about 2 hours before she gets up for the night, she nurses and goes back to sleep. So I dont' get a solid block of sleep before I take it either.

[4 Butterflies]

I was pretty much the same as you ladies. The 3rd cycle I changed my temp time to 5:30 and stuck with it ever since. I just couldn't judge what time I would wake up. I also mixed up my CM, what was what. I'm like an expert now!

[hiskid1324]

I think my one mistake was not starting at the beginning of the cycle... it was almost half way through the cycle when I started charting. But, other than that, my other mistake was not checking my CM on every day, day 6 and after (I'm charting to avoid), so we had a few weeks of wondering, with a late cycle and everything... on my third charted cycle.