What’s your thoughts on this?

Question

One of the experts nurses from premom app said that if we have irregular sleep as long as you have a 3+ hours of sleep you can temp, doesn’t have to be at the same time everyday, just need to be at rest at least 3 hours. 
Just want to know your thoughts on this cause if this is true it’ll take a huge chunk of burden off of me. And I mean it’s one of the expert nurses too so I don’t think she’s wrong..?

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As you can see the time I chart everyday isn’t the same but the pattern is pretty clear. Hope this helps!

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I temp whenever I wake up and keep the temperature that I get after my longest stretch of sleep. Not what’s recommended but I wake up a lot during the night. Regardless it’s allowed me to have an average for both pre ovulation and post ovulation that’s different enough for me to notice a pattern (36.2 pre ovulation vs 36.6+ post ovulation). So I would say don’t worry too much and temp after your longest stretch of sleep. If your pattern makes no sense after a cycle you can try temping at the same time everyday.

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Just keep an eye on your trends. I found something online that gave a 0.05°F/30min rule which has been accurate for me. For each 30min later in the day after 9:30am I sleep I add 0.05°F,  and 0.05°F less for each 30min earlier. I work a mix of evenings/nights/day shift (sometimes within a week) so my sleep pattern is all over the place. This helps me "adjust" the numbers based on sleep pattern, but I can still identify my trends usually without doing this they just fluctuate more.

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