jumpingo
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well, seeing as you are only at CD2, 3 and 4, you are totally fine!
also, i am a horrible sleeper too, so there were a lot of nights i didn't get 3 solid hours of sleep. but my theory is you want to eliminate as many variables as you can. so if sleep is going to be hit or miss, then try to make the time the same, that way at least one thing is constant. so, if you always temp at 7am, but get up to go to the bathroom at 5am, i would go back to sleep and then temp at 7am. in FF, just check the "sleep deprived" box and FF will know you may not have gotten a solid 3 hours and will take that into account. if you get up with your son and are up for the day, i guess i would just temp early and not read too much into a high or low temp on that day.
my charts were major rocky mountains, with lots of open circles. people always used to tell me to take it at the same time, and it was so frustrating because i DID!
but you get open circles if the time is more the 30 minutes from your normal time, or if you check "sleep deprived" and that was my chart. but, even with ups and downs all cycle long, FF can usually detect a temp shift and confirm O. the first month i temped, i would over analyze EACH temp and wonder what it meant. honestly they don't mean ANYTHING.
they mean something only when they are all together, but try not to read too much into just one temp. look for the overall pattern. sometimes you can't tell what's happening until the end of your cycle. by the 3rd month i was temping, it got really easy to read and understand where i was in my cycle and predict when i would ovulate. so, i would say temping isn't necessarily the fastest way to "get" pregnant, but it's the only way to confirm you are ovulating and, especially after a couple months, it really helps to know when to start OPKs and then calculate how many DPO you are and when AF is actually late because you'll know how long your luteal phase is. everyone has their own pattern though, so don't worry *too* much about comparing to other people (it's still fun and i totally did it, but just because i love graphs
) because their pattern and temps may be totally different, so compare more to your own previous months and see what's the same or different. (ex. my temps were all over the place post-O but it ALWAYS dropped drastically the day before i got my period, so 3-9DPO temps didn't matter. i don't believe in "implantation dips" as such, either. i was only concerned with what my temp did on 10, 11 and 12DPO, because that was a day before AF could arrive.)while obviously too late for anyone on this site
, my advice to anyone who thinks they might want to start trying to have kids is to start temping about 3 or 4 months BEFORE they even think they want to start. i feel like the first 3 months is just gathering data.
i got pregnant in cycle 5, for what it's worth.
and sorry for the novel!! good luck and hang in there! temping nearly drove me crazy, but in the end it was totally worth it!!
come? 
Maybbaby, beautiful tests. H&H 9 mos to you!
to those who got AF and 
for December. And congrats to any 
I missed!
going to give it another day or two. FF said AF tomorrow though I would have said today.... Just hate to waste tests...and get bfn of course.. 
but people *do* say it helps with really up and down charts, so if you want to, it definitely can't hurt!
)and I got my solid smiley yesterday. Thought I'd have a temp rise this morning, but it was elusive.
That is real rotten luck but at least you have your appt to distract you. And DH can take time for some r&r so that by the time O rolls around again his swimmers should be all rested up and ready to go! 
