Re: 'Secretly' charting, any suggestions?

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Anyway, he doesn't mind if I do practice charting or take prenatals or stuff. He just doesn't want to be *reminded* of future babies every morning by seeing me take my temperature.

He even went with me to a free seminar for people considering having a baby. I got some free samples of prenatals there, and then he said "go ahead, start taking them, just keep them out of my sight and don't talk about them".

I'll try taking temperature every morning when I wake up and go to the bathroom. We'll see if there's any pattern.

By the way, do I need a special "basal" termometer or would my regular (digital) termometer do?

At Fri, 15 Mar 2002, anonymous wrote: >
>Hi there — I too have a husband who is completinga Phd. Boy do I know
>what that is about. A couple of months ago we had a HUGE fight about
>him wanting to hold off on ttc until a year from now. I wouldn't mind,
>except I'm 38. I don't have a year to wait around. But, in answer to
>your question: 1) tell him you plan to chart for 6 months or so to get a
>feel for your cycle and you can use charting as birth control until
>you're ready. Besides it really takes several months to get the hang of
>it, so that wouldn't be unreasonable to do at all. 2) If you don't want
>him to know you're charting at all....if you ALWAYS take your
>temperature at the same time when you get up and go to the bathroom, you
>would still see a pattern, (though probably not as accurate.) However,
>you'd have to consistently take your temp in that manner. One thing
>worth noting — I noticed that my day time temps went up after ovulation
>so for a couple of months I took my temps every afternoon at the same
>time just to see if the temps correlated, and sure enough I showed just
>about the same pattern only 1-2 degrees higher. I know that is HIGHLY
>unorthodox and not at all how you'd chart for birth control, but just
>thought I'd mention that my day temps show the same bi-phasic pattern as
>my morning temps. Good luck.

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