Comments on: Basal Body Temperature 101 (How to Track Your Cycle) /how-to-track-your-cycle-basal-body-temperature-101/ Functional Medicine Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:06:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: How How to Get Pregnant After 40 (Without Fertility Treatment) – Dr. Alexandra MacKillop /how-to-track-your-cycle-basal-body-temperature-101/#comment-377 Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:29:51 +0000 /#comment-377 […] recommend that all my patients track their cycles using basal body temperature, or a home fertility tracking strategy such as over-the-counter test strips for urinary LH, or a […]

]]> By: How How to Get Pregnant in Your 40’s (Without Fertility Treatment) – Dr. Alexandra MacKillop /how-to-track-your-cycle-basal-body-temperature-101/#comment-376 Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:23:47 +0000 /#comment-376 […] recommend that all my patients track their cycles using basal body temperature, or a home fertility tracking strategy such as over-the-counter test strips for urinary LH, or a […]

]]> By: All About Progesterone (Why You Need It, How to Test It, and More!) – Dr. Alexandra MacKillop /how-to-track-your-cycle-basal-body-temperature-101/#comment-375 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 15:32:35 +0000 /#comment-375 […] ovulation until the first day of your next period. You can find out when you’re ovulating by tracking basal body temperature. Keep in mind that while LH urine test strips predict ovulation, they don’t confirm […]

]]> By: Natural Alternatives to The Birth Control Pill – Dr. Alexandra MacKillop /how-to-track-your-cycle-basal-body-temperature-101/#comment-374 Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:27:49 +0000 /#comment-374 […] already written a whole post about the mechanism and benefits of tracing basal body temperature so I definitely encourage you to go back and read that post if you haven’t […]

]]> By: Why Does My Period Stop and Start Again – Dr. Alexandra MacKillop /how-to-track-your-cycle-basal-body-temperature-101/#comment-373 Tue, 10 Sep 2024 20:06:40 +0000 /#comment-373 […] Mid-cycle spotting (very light, pink or brown; not red) at the time of ovulation as identified by tracking basal body temperature is a different kind of bleeding, not related to your period. This one truly may be normal, […]

]]> By: Lauren /how-to-track-your-cycle-basal-body-temperature-101/#comment-372 Wed, 25 Oct 2023 07:46:48 +0000 /#comment-372 Hi Alexandra,

Thank you for a very insightful post. I use progesterone cream twice a day to help with irregular periods, anxiety, and low levels of progesterone. Is tracking my BBT still something I can do since I use progesterone everyday before bed and in the morning (expect on my period) I just don’t know if it will affect the reading. Thanks so much for your help!

]]> By: 3 Reasons for Painful Periods (and What You Can, and Can’t Do About It) /how-to-track-your-cycle-basal-body-temperature-101/#comment-371 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 14:01:34 +0000 /#comment-371 […] Basal Body Temperature 101 […]

]]> By: A Different Approach to PMS /how-to-track-your-cycle-basal-body-temperature-101/#comment-370 Fri, 09 Oct 2020 13:02:32 +0000 /#comment-370 […] of the reasons I’m such a big fan of basal body temperature (BBT) charting and tracking cervical mucus is because it’s empowering. When we can follow our […]

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