To have a clearer picture of your cycle, it is best to combine charting your BBT with charting your cervical mucus.

There are several ways to chart your mucus. You can simply examine your toilet tissue after wiping, or insert two fingers and take a little pinch of mucus from the cervix

The easy positions for most women would be sitting on the toilet, one foot up on the toilet or bathtub, or squatting. Your partner can check for you.

To determine when you ovulate, you monitor your cervical mucus on a daily basis.

Cervical mucus is the secretion at your cervix. The feel and texture of mucus varies from dry, to sticky, to creamy, to egg-white before ovulation in most women.

Dry is when there really isn’t much mucus to get your fingers on.

Sticky is when you get enough mucus for your fingers to feel sticky.

Creamy is whitish and feels somewhat like lotion when you rub your fingers together.

Egg-white cervical mucus is called so because of its resemblance to raw egg whites. It is either clear or streaked and stretches an inch or more between your fingers. Sometimes it is watery.

Right before you ovulate, your cervical mucus will normally be very watery and very elastic, with the consistency of raw egg white.

After ovulation it is normal to have some dry, sticky or creamy mucus, and some women have watery mucus or a little egg-white again right before their period begins.

Charting for more than a month before you attempt to conceive will make it almost

CERTAIN that you are ovulating on a specific day.