I am so excited to kick off the 100th page of our board! Wow - we have a great group of mommies here - TTC and mommies already - we are all mommies in our hearts!
I wanted to send yet another "Pain in the Ass Jo" novel in reagrds to charting and requests for chart stalkers to help with in terpretations.......
I have seen a lot of wacko charts with more peaks than my Rocky Mountains and the Alps combined - I see dicards, hollows and missing temps - so here is some info to hopefully help with your charting....
BBT readings are most steady after at least 3+ hours of sleep. Keep in mind if you work odd shifts or sleep odd hours, that as long as you have been asleep for 3+hrs you will get a reliable BBT - so if you work nights one week and days the next, just be sure you are temping after a 3+ hour stretch of sleep and see if the temps level out a bit. Yes, you are supposed to chart at the same time each day if you have a
regular schedule, BUT it is
better to chart after the same number of sleep hours each day than at the same clock time each day if your schedule changes. Your body doesn't care what the clock says, BBT happens only with sleep.
Since this is a new board and thread for some and a new cycle for others, I also wanted to mention the other sections of the Fertility Friend charts and the best way to make the most of them.....FOR ALL US SOY LADIES we should use the custom section of the charts and add "Soy Iso" as a selection - note it on the CDs you use it and in the notes area of custom, note the dose that you took. Also note in the "Custom" area other herbs, Vitamins, fertility foods, etc. you are taking. Please also note when you consume alcohol - we will not judge - we are all TTC and some of us need a drink every now and then because we went to a party, we were stressed, it was happy hour - whatever....I will not judge as long as you are not posting "Drank 6 Jim Beams and Coke with Patron shots" for days in a row...
When using the "specific" section like some women do - DO NOT overkill it and make the chart harder to analyze by posting TMI!! Not every bout with stomach trouble needs to be recorded! For example, if you know that you had spicy Indian for lunch the day before and have gas or diarrhea today, DO NOT NOTE THAT as it would obviously not be a mentrual cycle sign, but a digestive one!
Leave your digestion off the chart unless it can be presumed morning sickness. Same goes for tired, bitchy, moody, sad, etc -
Use judgment or you will create a chart that really should be titled "I am a hypochondriac with no better use of my time" - Ladies, we are trying to make babies here, not cure world health troubles - we are all able to do this - have faith! Another Example: if your dog passed away there really is no need to post "sad"
or "moody"
as it is explained by someting other than your cycle or your TTC! (To all you dog lovers, sorry for that example. My own family rescues Saint Bernards, so it was the first mood example that came to mind.)
For the specifics - please enter as much info as you can with CM, CP, temp, fertility drugs, fertility supplements. Remember to check your cervix internally daily! Do not just check CM of your TP - "sweep" with your finger and record what is happening - CM changes when exposed to the air and checking underwear or paper is not always accurate or adequate.
For sex - please note AM or PM, not just yes or no - why? So that if you have a question as to CTE (catching that egg) we may be able to help answer better if we know that you did the deed at 5am the day you see your thermal shift, vs. 9pm when you would surely have missed it.
Just try not to note each time you pass gas - jeez some women really create annoying charts that many of us find more confusing and it leave us chart interpreters stumped.
For those of you new to charting - do not give up too fast! Try to keep up with the charting - it takes about a week to get into the habit. I had not charted in about 8 years and the first week was awful! i had sunburn, interupted sleep, forgot to temp and remembered while in the shower - I was a mess in June! So I slept with a rubber band on my wrist and the BBT tucked in the band so i would not forget - after a week I moved the BBT to the nightstand and have not forgotten since.
If you have questions about your charts there are many of us here that will help and some of us have taken the chart course to become "chart analysts" - fertility friend is not always right and this is especially true with Soy, Clomid, trigger injections, etc - reach out and ask!
My new goal is to see all of us get
by January here! If you are in, I'm in!
Remember too that the best part about kids is making them! LOL
Hope this helps! GL and Baby Dust!
Here is a link to my chart - I am hoping to see some more leveling of our group charts so that we can all be confident in our analysis of our own charts... My Ovulation Chart
I'm glad to hear you didn't have any O pain, 'cause I definitely haven't had any yet and am hoping it's not a bad sign 
). I think I just prepared myself that it may not last after my first m/c in May. I am glad though that I did not have to wait til 10/11 weeks to find out this time. On the positive side I got pregnant the first month I tried soy and first time I Oed after my first miscarriage. I usually take forever to get pregnant so I feel positive about that and hopeful Soy will give me another chance. 
Maybe because Soy can increase cm for some people that it can make Af different
soy is a natural clomid, it tricks ur body into thinking that u dont have enough estrogen so ur body makes more. and hopefully your body will pop out an eggie. people who dont ovulate on their own normally use it, but i believe that people who do ovulate use it...i did. people say that u should not use it if u do ovulate because soy can mess up your cycles. my personal opinion...i ovulate on my own and i used soy for the first time, iam on cd 23 and i have not had any problems so far. it even moved up my O day some. this thread is full on facts about soy if u wanted to browse some, the ladies on here are very knowledgeable. hope this helped
Here's the pic - 
