How to measure basal temperature for pregnancy

This article will be very useful for those women who are trying to become pregnant and want to know how to correctly determine the most successful time for conception. As is known, the embryo appears during the exit of the ovum from the ovary (ovulation) and its connection with the sperm. Modern medical methods make it possible to calculate this period up to days by measuring the basal temperature.

What is it and how to measure it correctly?

In fact, this is a common measurement with a thermometer. You can do oral, vaginal or rectal (through the rectum). The most common is the last option. Better if you will note degrees on paper or count using a table on the Internet. So you can visually follow the changes up to the tenth degree.

A few recommendations

• Basal temperature is usually measured in the morning, immediately after sleep. A change in the schedule is allowed for a maximum of thirty minutes.
• Degree the temperature from the evening, so as not to make any movement before the measurement. If you get up during the night, try to detect the time, and make a measurement five to six hours after the ascent.
• Choose only one way to know the basal temperature (for example, vaginal) and use it all the time. Only in this way you can get reliable data.
• Do not count the days in the calculations when you were sick. At this time, the infection itself causes an increase in temperature, which has nothing to do with ovulation.

Schedule BT for an ordinary woman:

Due to the cycle of menstruation, the level of hormones in the body of a woman gradually changes, which reflects on body temperature and, accordingly, on the chart.

1. In the first phase (from the end of the monthly and until the new ovulation), the egg ripens. At this time, the BT level will be 36-36.5 degrees.
2. The day before ovulation, the temperature drops by 0.2-0.3 degrees of a degree. And when the egg leaves, there is a sharp jump of 0.4-0.6 divisions and the thermometer can show you 37 or slightly more degrees. This is the most favorable time for conception. It will be better if you will measure BT for more than one month and will be able to determine how many days remain before ovulation. The probability of getting pregnant three to four days before or within 12 hours after it is very high.
3. If you did not manage to get pregnant, then before the new monthly the temperature will again drop by 0.2 percentage point.

And here is the schedule of the woman who managed to get pregnant:

At this time, the body will produce a hormone called progesterone, which promotes an elevated body temperature. One must hold at a level of 37 degrees. It is permissible to increase by 0.1-0.3 degrees.

If the level of BT at this time begins to decrease, you should consult a doctor, since there is a threat of natural termination of pregnancy. But the indicator above 38 indicates problems. Most likely, you picked up some kind of infection.

Some tips in the end

• you can not only choose the most successful time for conception, but also to find out whether you become pregnant or not. But for this you need to regularly measure the temperature. The woman in the position of BT is kept at about the same level for quite a long time.
• After you managed to conceive a child, you should not immediately interrupt the measurement of temperature. Any swing of the mercury column can show you about changes in the body.
• Do not completely trust this method of determining pregnancy. It is better to be convinced of it, having lead the test independently or having handed over special analyzes.