So, after reading so much about it here - people charting and so forth, I decided to go out and buy one of those themometers and start charting. It's probably a bit late on in the month to start (day 12 out of a 31 day cycle) but hey ho!

My hubbie nearly had a heart attack this morning when I switched it on and it made a loud beeping noise! He saw me sitting up in bed with this themometer hanging out of my mouth and said, 'what on earth are you doing? It's like 6.30 in the morning - are you ill?' Trying to explain to a man what body basal temperature and charting is at 6.30 in the morning is not fun! He just said, 'oh' and turned over and went to sleep -grrr! Let's hope it works - I have got a normal reading this morning, so I will be using this along with the ovulation sticks to try and track my ovulation. I usually get ovulation pains as well - maybe I'm going a tad overboard. Oh well!

How are the rest of you doing?

I haven't done the basal body temperature, of course we haven't been trying all that long yet, so maybe later. I don't know if my DH would want to BD with me if I started charting and trying to explain it to him, some things are just better left unsaid

You're probably right. I might not mention these things to him from now on - keep the 'glamour' and all that!

Like you, I'm early on in ttc (second month), but I'm such an information addict - I like to know what's going on with my cycle and stuff. But, I should definately try to chill out about it. Last month, I was so nervous during the two week wait and convinced myself I was experiencing 'symptoms.' It doesn't help that I get a lot of PMS symptoms that are similar to preggers symptoms. I was so disappointed when the turned up. So this month, I'm going to try (I say 'try') to not get so wound up about it - easier said than done.

How are you today, sort of cycle buddy?

I know what you mean about the information. As soon as we TTC I started looking up everything I could online and even bought a book and read it in 2 days! The first month was the hardest, I analyzed everything. I even noticed a few AF symptoms that I had never noticed before. This month is better, I find myself not worrying to much about it and not over-analyzing things. I am doing the every other day BD though (which my husband LOVES) so we'll see how things go. I'm doing pretty darn good here how about you??

Yeah, fairly good - got an exam for my part-time psychology course next week, so a l'm a little stressed. Probably should be studying rather than on the internet!!!

I didn't know you were in school. Good luck on your test, I'm sure you'll do great A little procrastination never hurt anyone (as long as you get some studying done )I finished university this past May, thank goodness.

No, I'm not in school. I work full time, but I am doing a part-time psychology course in my spare time.

Good on you for taking that on while working full-time. I tried to work full-time and take courses but I found that by the time I got home I didn't want to read school books and write papers

I know the feeling - hence the online time wasting!

You aren't wasting time, you are doing research for TTC