I looked for "bathroom breaks charting temps" and didn't see anything in search.
When do you take your temp? I usually wake up around 4 something to use the bathroom and then I go back to sleep until 5:45ish.
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You are supposed to try for 3 hours of uninterrupted sleep. I had a problem of waking up naturally starting at 5 AM and then kind of snoozing off and on until I woke up for the day - I ended up just taking my temperature at 5 AM everyday. It sounds like if you always wake-up at 4 AM you could just re-jig your temp time to be then.
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This is why temping never worked for me. My wake up to pee is never at the same time, so there was no way for me to get a temp at a consistent time AND following 3 hours of uninterrupted sleep.
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I get up most nights to pee between 3-4:30 and then am up for the day at 5:30 or 6 depending on if it is a workout day. I have still been able to pinpoint ovulation and my philosophy is that my chart is "good enough" not perfect. I do write a note on the day in ff so I can go back and discard if needed but so far it hasn't seemed to be a big problem.
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I would take my temp after whatever was my longest stretch of sleep. So if I got up in the middle of the night, as long as I had slept for 3 hours, I'd temp then. ESPECIALLY if I thought I wasn't going to get an additional 3 hours after going back to bed!
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Like op's, I temp whenever I've had 3+ hrs of sleep. I often wake up somewhere between 3:50 & 4:30a, temp, take my thyroid meds (which have to be 30-60 min before food, then go back to sleep until either 5:20 during the week or 7ish on the weekend & it has been good enough to get data on ff (with opk's). Maybe if all I did was temp it'd be too erratic, & I often get open circles, but the temps don't seem to fluctuate simply based on the time I temped.
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My charting is more in line with @MamaCate: theory. It's not perfect but I've never had any issues reading my chart either. I temp when my alarm goes off around 5:45-6am even if I go to the bathroom an hour or so before then. The only time I usually temp earlier is if I wake up and go to the bathroom around 5:15 or 5:30. I find that a temp taken around 3:30am won't be as accurate anyways.
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Thanks! Ugh, I forgot to take my temp today....my thermometer was next to my alarm clock and glasses.
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Thinking of this thread this morning as LO came in to wake me up at 5:50 to fix something in her room. I got up, talked to her, tucked her back in, and lay back down for 10 minutes until my alarm went off. Temp was only .04 different from yesterday when I stayed in bed. So for me it doesn't seem like a huge deal breaker!
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@MamaCate: Good to know, thanks!
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