BD Basal Digital Thermometer

Not for everyone:
My husband and I are on our 4th month trying to conceive. I have heard that a good way to gauge your ovulation time is with a basal thermometer, so I got one just to help the process along. After not even a month of using this I got tired of it. My temperatures were all over the place even though I was doing them at the same time every morning before I got out of bed. I spoke with my Dr. about using these. She said that these are not for everyone. Some women don't have any correlation between their ovulation and their temperature changing. It was a lot more stress than it was worth, for me. There are a lot of things to keep track of in addition to just taking your temperature, and for me, it was just too much. The thermometer itself does a fine job. The back light was nice and it takes the temperature accurately from what I could tell. It does take a while for it to take your temperature though. The constant beep while it's taking your temperature is a nice indicator that it is still working, but also annoying that it is continuous. It would be better if it just beeped when it was finished or if there was an error.

Love it!:
I've had this thermometer for 7 months and it works great. I love the back-light and that it stores the last temp. in memory.

Exactly what I needed:
I love this thermometer. The back light and last temp recall have been a life saver for me. When I want to sleep in I can reach over shove it in my mouth for 1 minute drop it back on the night stand and go back to sleep. When I am ready to wake and write my temp down I can simply push the button and voila theres my temp. This is also the thermometer that is reccomended in the book Taking Charge of Your Fertility. I definatly reccomend that book as well. The only drawback is that beeps lightly every 3 seconds for 1 minute to let you know it is working which drives my husband nuts.

Easy and basic to use:
I did a lot of reviewing before buying my BD Basal Digital Thermometer. I wanted something that most of the people liked, that they found it to be easy to use and very basic. I didn't need a lot of bells and whistles. And I am very pleased with this thermometer. The Good: I like that it is basic. You press a button, it lights up, it beeps to let you know it is ready. You place it under your tongue and wait. It will beep to let you know that it is still working (and for me, keeps me from falling asleep with the thing in my mouth) then it beeps in a different sequence to let you know it is done. When you turn on the thermometer, it has the last temperature taken lit up on the screen. Which is handy if you have fallen back into your coma and failed to write down your temp for the morning. The Bad: I wake up at 6:15am every morning to do this and my only complaint with it is that it does not light up to give you your temp rating. When it is finished taking your temp, it will beep to let you know, but doesn't light itself up, I usually have to turn my phone on or move my alarm over so I can read it to record the temp. Some people said the beeping has woken up their partners. And while the beeping is a bit loud, it is not too loud to be distracting. In fact my husband woke the first morning I started using the thermometer, having had a nightmare about a bomb, but now, he tells me, he hardly hears it, if at all. I would recommend this little guy. It is easy to use, hard to screw up and there is that nice little `fail safe' in case you do forget to write down your temp. With the only problem being the light up screen that doesn't happen, I'm satisfied with the product....until the BD Basal Digital Thermometer 2.0 comes out ;)

Does its job well!:
This thermometer works better than those I have found at stores. It takes a long time, but I think that's just the nature of these thermometers. Once I got used to holding my mouth and my body still for the thermometer to do its thing, it's been great!