Here are examples of basal body temperatures in pregnancy, luteal phase in a pregnancy cycle, in your follicular stage (during your period / menstrual time and beyond), at ovulation, the days following ovulation, implantation and pregnancy, and temperatures when pregnancy has not occurred.
Here is a graphic to show you the dips and rises. Notice the days on the top and the temperatures on the side.
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| 1: Before ovulation, in the pink pre-ovulation temperature box above, notice that the box covers a range from 96.9 - 97.8. Depending on how your thyroid, hormones and liver behave you will have temperatures in this range; typically. I have seen many women who have temperatures below 97 and I would suggest liver cleansing, green drinks for the thyroid and progesterone cream. A large number of women will see basal body temperatures like those above. These temperatures are considered normal in that your estrogen is supposed to be proportionately higher at the time of menstruation. Estrogen is cooling on the body. | 2:
Just before ovulation, when your follicles are
maturing and your egg of the month is ready, there SHOULD,
if your body is not behaving badly, be a dip in
temperature. This is absolutely normal and what should be
anticipated on the day just before you ovulate. It is a
negative spike. So notice the dip that happens at the time when these follicles are matured. We say matured here because this is what happens in the follicular phase of the cycle. That is when Follicle Stimulating Hormone grows the follicles into eggs. We won't go into that more here because it is not our function but you can read about this at: INFERTILITY WORKSHOP.COM and FERTILITY TRACKER.COM. |
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It isn't as important to have the same temperatures that are
here in order to understand how this works. You just
need to know that your basal body temperature should drop a
few tenths of a degree before ovulation and have some spike
after ovulation occurs. Progesterone is warming and so
temperatures will rise when progesterone is released during
the luteal phase (the phase that follows ovulation. Notice the temperatures are around the low 98s here. These are normal temps even if your cycle is not necessarily "normal". You might have basal temperatures that are lower but keep the patterns in mind. |
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If you become pregnant you should see some kind of
dip as you can see here; at the time of implantation.
Your temperatures will then go up and should stay up until
close to your due date. These temperatures should be
at a higher level since hCG will signal your body to produce
more progesterone. These show what might be pregnancy
temperatures not long after pregnancy begins. At this point you might want to consider a pregnancy calendar and ovulation wheel to help determine your due date. Without pregnancy and the hCG hormone your basal body temperatures will begin to drop, placing you back at the beginning of the cycle again. Also without progesterone puffing up the endometrial lining it will begin to slough off and your menstruation should be begin. |
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