https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:03:33 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-does-your-husband-help#post-27894 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:20:42 +0000 looch 27894@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband doesn't help at all, he'd be more of a hindrance honestly. I wake up naturally without an alarm and the beeping on my thermometer doesn't seem to bother him.</p> <p>I keep a simple chart, I just write the temp on a little calendar, every once in a while I migrate it to Excel, but I have really no need for that anymore. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-does-your-husband-help#post-27762 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:55:00 +0000 MrsMccarthy 27762@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: ha that is so funny! My hubs hates the beep too. He calls it my vagina alarm. He freaked out and bitched so much this morning about "losing sleep" (he needs Luke 11 hours sleep) that I finally did some research and just bought mercury free glass analog thermometer. They are available in amazon if any of you ladies encounter the same tantrum. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-does-your-husband-help#post-27591 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:14:27 +0000 hilsy85 27591@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband hates that I temp, because the thermometer wakes him up in the mornings, lol. It beeps pretty loudly, so now I've taken to sticking my head under the pillow while I temp. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-does-your-husband-help#post-27506 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:03:28 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 27506@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband isn't involved in the charting part at all. I'll tell him something about my cycle and he'll look at me blankly and say "i don't know what that means." The CM part of it freaks him out, too. So I just let him know when he gets to have his "perfect week" (BD every day), and he's pretty compliant. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-does-your-husband-help#post-26474 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:43:17 +0000 ALittleP 26474@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow - my hubby is very not much involved other than the BD part hee hee. He barely even looked at my charts unless I showed them to him for a reason! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-does-your-husband-help#post-26343 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:46:05 +0000 cyneswith 26343@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband says that charting reminds him of Pokemon players. You've got people who just play the game, and people who have spreadsheets upon spreadsheets to maximize each individual Pokemon. He's glad that I'm alert to things like CM, etc, but he's glad that I a) don't temp and b) don't explain things like CM beyond "my body lets me know when I'm most fertile". </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-does-your-husband-help#post-26266 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:17:22 +0000 Mrs.VW 26266@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My sweet, poor husband :) He is really good about listening and looking the chart and acting excited when I say 'Do you want to see our chart??' :) I'm sure he does it to humor me but I know he also doesn't mind. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-does-your-husband-help#post-25621 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:55:22 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 25621@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We wake up at different times so he isn't home to help me temp. But he does ask for updates daily and keeps his own chart on his phone. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-does-your-husband-help#post-25453 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:09:05 +0000 Puddingpop 25453@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine murmurs, "what's the temp?" and follows that with an "awww" or "oh good!" before falling back to sleep. LOL </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-does-your-husband-help#post-25370 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:03:32 +0000 MrsMccarthy 25370@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rachel: @mediagirl: I am with you gals! my hubby is very compliant. hahah but he does what he is supposed to do and not much more than that. he has been very supportive of our trying though and even though he is 5 years younger and it came on a bit quicker than he had imagined in life and took getting used to, he becomes more involved and into it every day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-does-your-husband-help#post-25299 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:27:33 +0000 Rosie Girl 25299@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH didn't help at all! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-does-your-husband-help#post-25296 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:25:54 +0000 mamabolt 25296@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine played no role other than having to hear about my chart occasionally. Considering he can sleep through his alarm most mornings, he would have been a bad person to rely on to give me the thermometer! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-does-your-husband-help#post-25243 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:45:41 +0000 heffalump 25243@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine would hand me the thermometer every morning, read it, and put everything in his phone app. He's much more organized than I am. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-does-your-husband-help#post-25241 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:37:55 +0000 Adira 25241@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I haven't started yet, but I suspect my husband will play NO role in charting. I think having a baby is waaaaay more important to me than him (although he's definitely up for it), and he won't care if it takes a while to get pregnant (at least at first), so I suspect in the beginning, he won't help. Perhaps once we've been trying for a while with no results, he'll start chipping in though (hopefully it won't come to that...). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-does-your-husband-help#post-25238 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:36:14 +0000 Shutterbug 25238@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not at all, other than that the beeping of my thermometer wakes him up. And that I love to show him my chart on my iphone app </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-does-your-husband-help#post-25216 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:07:43 +0000 MaisyMay 25216@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Reading TCOYF stressed that the husband needs to be involved. Also, I am rather opposed to the idea that birth control should be mostly the woman's responsibility. This way he has an equal part in this, well as equal as he can without having it be his body! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-does-your-husband-help#post-25214 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:05:36 +0000 mediagirl 25214@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Dang girl! Go hubby! I didn't ask mine to be a part of it and didn't expect him to be. I would just tell him, WE NEED TO HAVE SEX RIGHT NOW and he knew what that meant. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-does-your-husband-help#post-25211 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:04:29 +0000 MaisyMay 25211@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What role does your husband play in charting? Mine sets the alarm as well as keeps the thermometer and chart on his side of the bed. He hands me the thermometer in the a.m. and records the temps and when we bd. I am in charge of recording CM and updating fertilityfriend. </p>