Tips for taking your temperature - Tracking your cycle

Tracking your cycle to conceive, or avoid pregnancy, or to get information about your health or just to live more in sync with your cycle - this video is filled with tips for taking your temperature (your basal body temperature). This video will be followed by another video where I explain the temperature pattern you want to see when tracking, but before I get there I thought it would be useful to share tips to ensure that the temperatures you are interpreting are as accurate possible. In this video I provide over 10 practical tips. I answer frequently asked questions about temping and common concerns/doubts people have shared with me.

What do I know about tracking?
Aside from having read multiple books on the topic - I have tracked my cycle (and used the fertility awareness method) for between 3-4 years now. For the last 2 years I have kept detailed daily records of my physical symptoms, my mental and emotional state and all my health efforts. I speak to other women who track their cycles about their charts on a daily basis (I wasn't kidding when I said I am a fertility nerd).

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Disclaimer: Please take what serves you and leave what doesn't. This is not advise. This is me sharing my experience, information & some recommendations, but with your body - it is your choice & your responsibility.

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Time codes:
0:00 - Introduction
1:40 - Disclaimer
2:38 - What thermometer to use?
4:39 - Where to take your temperature
5:33 - Basal body temperature
7:21 - Don't do other things before taking your temperature
8:34 - Needing to wake up at different times
9:05 - Disrupted sleep and temping
12:37 - Morning cuddles and temping
13:33 - Accurate reading on a digital thermometer
15:45 - Bluetooth linking to an app
17:00 - Should I bother?
19:39 - Heating devices