New to everything!

[Luckybug]

After several months of NTNP, and several years of using only the "pull out method", we're finally going to take fertility in our own hands. I've been married to my husband for three years, been with him for ten in January. I'm 27, he's 26.

This month is the third month of actually trying, I used fertility friend but only to track my cycles, and to give me "fertile days". I haven't temped or used opks. This month I purchased some opks (wondfo), and I'm hoping to get a handle on it. I have some pretty dark lines, but I know they're negative still because of other posts on the forum. I think it should be positive sometime this evening.

The past few months have been hard, my husband's in the military and between our work schedules we've missed a lot of the "fertile days". This month we're making no excuses!

We're currently stationed in germany, and I have no idea where to buy a decent bb thermometer. I can typically get things from Amazon pretty fast, what are the recommendations there? I'm hoping I don't have to use it, but I want to be prepared.

 

[Jules8]

Hello luckybug! I am in kind of the same situation as you are. My husband and I have been married for a year, but have been together for 4. I am 27 and he will be 33 this month. We were ntnp for 3 years and this is the second month of ttc.

The past few months I have only tracked AF, but this month I got a basal thermometer and some wonfo's to help track ovulation. I got the opks off Amazon and was going to get the thermometer from there, but I wanted to start right away so I just grabbed a basic one at CVS. Do you have any pharmacies near you in Germany?

 

[Luckybug]

We do, but they're called apothekes and everything is in celcius, I'm not quite comfortable with that yet. It's so strange here, it makes everything that would normally be convenient be so frickin' hard.

 

[Jules8]

I can imagine! I would be lost, though Germany is high on my list of places I want but probably won't ever get the chance to go to. Lol I would go w Amazon then. Don't think to far into it as long as it is a basal thermometer to the hundredth degree...the mabis brand is close to what I got and it works fine. I would personally recommend one that remembers the last temperature. I am half asleep when I take it and can't remember what it was when I go to record it. Lol

 

[Luckybug]

Thank you!

 

[jumpingo]

welcome :wave:

i had the same problem as all the thermometers in japan are in celcius too! i lived here for 8 years and weather, i can totally do, but not body temperature. then i married my husband, who is stationed here and now we use a mix of celcius and farenheit, depending. haha.

anyway, i ordered my thermometer off amazon because all of the thermometers at the Bx here only did .0, .2, .4, .6, .8. the one i got doesn't actually go to the hundredths, but i read that it just needs to go to the tenths. as long as it's .0, .1, .2, .3 etc. seems to work alright, but i guess if you can find one to the hundredths, all the better!

 

[Luckybug]

I definitely think there is something going on in my uterus now, but it's too soon to tell. Hoping I don't have to buy a thermometer after all. Had some brownish cm today (tmi) I know. Fingers crossed that when I test in five days it turns positive!

 

[Jules8]

Hopefully it is all good signs! I will keep my fingers crossed for you!