For "most" people, you can track your ovulation by charting your temperature from day to day. The norm is for your temperature to be lower prior to ovulation, then a spike down and then up for ovulation, and then an increase or high temperature during the rest of your luteal phase.
The first month of charting, I had this perfect example of the temperature differences, including a spike down the day prior to ovulation and a significant spike up on ovulation. So I figured, hey this thing is easy, we got this, let's try next month. Well here's where it goes wrong...
The second month of charting I did not have the sudden spike signaling ovulation. I thought maybe I didn't ovulate because I was kind of stressing over "the perfect time" since Tyler really wanted to try for a boy. Since I didn't think I ovulated, and wasn't able to track it, I pretty much hoped that month would be a fluke and we'd try the next month.
The third month of charting I also did not have the sudden spike signaling ovulation. I had several spikes, but then the following days the temperature would decrease or increase. I was getting really frustrated and took again to the internet to see what I could find out. Apparently not all ladies get the sudden spike in temperature for ovulation, it can also be a gradual increase over the rest of your luteal phase. Now this was starting to make sense, because that's what happened in month 2. I also found out that you don't necessarily ovulate on the same day from month to month, something else I was predicting wrong. Bottom line, each month can be completely different, from the day you ovulate to how your chart signifies ovulation... great, this may be harder than I think! Since I didn't feel confident I could "pinpoint" the day of my ovulation, we decided on the other route -- try multiple times during my "fertile" window. I believe I was able to pinpoint my ovulation after the fact, and we just hoped that our method worked this month.
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