Temperature
A few weeks ago, Infertile Phoenix encountered an old journal while decluttering where she recorded her temperature. I did this, too, though I wrote it daily on the calendar. I still have these old calendars — technically datebooks — though I haven’t looked at them in over 20 years.
I kept taking my temperature even after I entered treatments, even though it was pretty pointless. I don’t remember when I stopped the first time around. It was probably a few months into pregnancy, though I may have kept it up until I delivered.
Reading her post made me wonder how many people still do this. Do people still read Toni Weschler’s book? It looks like her site is still active, and I received a pop-up asking if I wanted to beta test her new app. I guess people use apps more than paper. I used a different site on my computer and then printed it out. My login still works — I bought a lifetime membership. It looks like my last chart was in 2007.
It was strangely emotional to remember all of this. To see a chart again.
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It’s still out there! — and I remember reading a news article not too long ago about it, and how it (like so many other things these days, unfortunately…) has become politicized, much to the author’s dismay. I did some Googling and I think I found it:
https://www.thecut.com/article/toni-weschler-taking-charge-of-your-fertility-book.html
It’s behind a paywall for me — I think I read it at the time via Pocket, which is sadly now defunct — but you can get around some paywalled articles via the archive.today site at https://archive.ph/
Try this link: https://archive.ph/5oFOr
I wrote about TCOYF and how I used it in a 2018 blogpost. Obviously, it did not work for me! but I am still glad I read it and gained that better knowledge of my body and how it works. I would still highly recommend it for all young women, whether or not they want children or are experiencing fertility issues. (Men should probably read it too!)
https://theroadlesstravelledlb.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-blast-from-past.html
I think people should use those apps with extreme caution. I used one back in 2012, but we are living in different times now. I would hate for someone’s cycle data to be used against them.
I gave up on temperature and just used opk. I was bad at taking the basal before getting up so my temperature charts were nonsense.
It was a really good book and made so much make sense, but very glad I was never trying to prevent pregnancy with nfp.