Podcast EP 15
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[00:00:00] We know that tracking the big three is the most effective way to bring your baby home, but BBT can be such a nuisance. I know it was for me, having to get three hours of straight sleep, take your temperature at the exact same time every single morning, and more than anything, not move. I have to pee in the morning.
It didn't always work for me. Well, sis, keep listening because I have the thing for you that's gonna help you consistently track BBT, confirm your ovulation so that you nail your fertile window to bring your baby home. Keep listening. Hi, I'm Sophie Byfield and when I decided I was ready to be a mama, I thought it would be so easy.
Get off birth control, baby dance, like no one's watching, and poof, I was pregnant. But like many of you, that wasn't my story. After months of negative tests, endless treatments, and more supplements than you can count. I realized that getting [00:01:00] pregnant isn't about fixing one piece of your fertility puzzle.
It's about bringing your whole body. Back into balance so it feels safe enough to conceive. And this is where we focus on what really matters. Healing your whole body so that you can see those two pink lines. Welcome to the Heel to Conceive podcast. All right, so let's talk about the big three. We know that Cervical Mucus tells us their doorway is open.
LH tells us we are on the runway ready to go, and BBT confirms we've taken off. When you start tracking, it is important to make sure that you have two of those. Now, BBTI like to say is a little bit more important, this cervical mucus, just because it confirms that you have actually dropped an. One of the biggest complaints, challenges, issues [00:02:00] I hear in the Hilda conceived tribe is that taking your BBT every single day is hard.
Listen, if I'm being absolutely honest, I had the same challenges and issues when I was tracking with BBT. To get the right consistent reading, you need to take it around the same time every single morning. You need to get three hours of solid sleep. You need to take your BBT before you have to move and sis, I'm someone that has to go to the washroom.
So taking my BBT before I have to move just becomes stressful because I'm sitting there thinking, am I gonna pee my pants? But don't worry, I have been testing out the temp drop. And the temp drop is a wearable thermometer that you put on your arm. So it's a wearable armband at night that takes your temperature.
We are going to dive into this [00:03:00] little device and get all of the details. So what exactly is the temp drop? So the temp drop, and I love that it looks like a teardrop, is wearable technology that you put on your arm and it sits on the inside of your arm as you sleep and read your temperature all night throughout the night.
It is constantly reading your temperature, but the algorithm also filters out movement. So if you get up to go to the washroom, it does filter that out and really takes an average of what your temperature is all night. As a fertility coach who reads. Tracking charts all the time. I absolutely love it when my client has BBT, honestly, having a BBT reading can allow me to see if you have a true LH peak, which means you're dropping an egg.
It confirms ovulation within one to three days after you've dropped the. When you don't have BBT or you don't confirm ovulation, we can kind of be left wondering [00:04:00] like, was this a true peak? Did I really ovulate this month? What's going on? BBT is one of my favorite methods to confirm ovulation. I was recommending the teron to my clients long before the company reached out to me.
You see anyone that works shift work irregular cycles. PCOS. It is hard to take their temperature, and I really liked the idea of the temp drop, but I didn't wanna bring my review here until I used it personally. So here's my review on the temp drop after I've used it to monitor my cycle and my BBT. This is the actual thermometer, and then this is the armband when I went on the website to get my temp drop.
Um, they had two sizes. They had small, medium, and large, extra large. Now I have an extra large arm and I was a little concerned that it wasn't gonna fit around my tricep, so around my upper arm. But I was pleasantly surprised when I opened up the box and it had a band expander. [00:05:00] The band expander also has a little bit of stretch to it as well to give you a little bit more room, so it acts like a bra strap.
You're going to hook it to the level that you fits your arm. You take the temp drop and you're going to put it inside the hole with the silver part facing out, one moment later, it slides in quite easily. You wanna make sure that that silver part is facing out right in the center of the hole, so you're then gonna hold the button to turn it on and wait for it to start flashing green.
Once it's flashing green, we slide it off the arm and you put it on the inner arm and you go about your day. When you wake up in the morning, you then take it back off, open your app, and hit the green button again, and hit the sync button and your temperature is uploaded to the device. One of the cons I found with the temp drop was, um.
There was a couple nights where I [00:06:00] woke up and it was halfway down my arm. That is because I had used the extender and made it a little bit too big. So you do wanna make sure it is a snug fit around your arm to make sure it doesn't slide off, but not too tight that you're cutting off circulation. So it took me about two nights to be able to find the perfect size for my arm, and now we are killing it.
So there's a couple ladies inside the tribe who have been using the temp drop consistently. The first lady is a nurse and she got the temp drop because she's always working shift work, and it was very hard to confirm her BBT or her ovulation with a regular BBT thermometer. The second lady just likes to go to the bathroom all night, and I, that is me as well.
Like I drink water all night. It was very hard to get three to four hours of solid sleep to get a consistent temperature. She has now moved to the temp drop and has made a world of difference in pinpointing [00:07:00] her fertile window, timing her baby dads, and really knowing that she ovulate. With an unpredictable sleep pattern.
The BBT thermometer can really be hard to pinpoint all of the ovulation data points, but with the temp drop, you just put it on and away you go. And the algorithm does the magic. We know that some people with PCOS or irregular cycles have erratic temperature readings. The great thing about the temp drop is it helps to really stabilize your readings because it's reading all night.
It truly makes the game easier. You just have to remember to put it on
and the app has notifications to let you know, Hey, it's time to put it on. But I'm gonna be honest, I still forgot to put it on sometimes. When we were discussing the temp drop as an option for some people inside the tribe, a couple questions came up. Is it as accurate for confirming ovulation as the BBT thermometer?
[00:08:00] Well, it is a skin temperature, but the temp drop is reading your temperature all the way through the night, and it's looking for that shift. So yes, it can confirm ovulation, but your BBT thermometer can also give you more information about the health of your body, your metabolism. The temp drop is not really designed to do all that.
The temp drop is designed to confirm ovulation. So if you want it as a tracking method to confirm ovulation, then we got you. Sometimes I wonder if I had a temp drop earlier, if it would've made my journey a little bit easier, like taking all the supplements, doing all the things, and it still wasn't working.
I was trying to be consistent with my BBT, but it was so hard for me because I had to go to the bathroom in the morning. So my question for you is imagine missing your fertile window or not confirming ovulation because your BBT temperatures are inconsistent. [00:09:00] I was there. That was me. And honestly, the temp drop, I wish I had it back then.
If you are ready to try it. If BBT is frustrating, if you are a shift worker, heavy irregular cycles or struggle with PCOS. Then give the temp, drop a try and make BBT tracking so much simpler for yourself than cyst. I got you. Here is my discount code that you can use a checkout. It gives you a special 15% off the purchase of a new temp drop.
I believe that getting pregnant is a needle in a haystack, and some of us have more hay. And we need to pull away different strands to be able to find our needle, to be able to bring our baby home. The temp drop allows you to pull away a bunch of strands to really be able to find your needle, confirm your ovulation, and bring your baby home.
So if you're [00:10:00] ready, let's go. Remember, this journey is hard and you don't have to do it alone. You've got this. You're gonna bring your baby home and when you don't got it. I got you. Baby Defra.
