[Tiff802]

How do you check your CM? Do you just wipe with a tissue before you use the restroom, after? Do you check it when you check your cervix? Do you do it throughout the day or just in the am, or what? If it's different in the morning than it is at night what do you chart? I am probably making this harder than it should be. TIA ladies!!!

Sometimes I can get it on TP and other times I will have to check it when I check my cp or even before that. I do it through out the day not just once because mine changes through out the day.

[chen75]

You can check CM several different ways. You can check for it by checking your cervix with your fingers. They say this method is best, so you don't have to wait for CM to drop down to your vagina first. But if you prefer, you can just take notice of it by wiping each time after going to the washroom. Or taking notice of it on your underwear. For me, whenever I had fertile CM, i had an abundence of it on the tissue and on my underwear.

Here is som info about charting CM....

What Is Cervical Mucus?
Cervical Fluid is the mucus that is secreted from the cervix. It is produced by the hormone estrogen in the first phase of a monthly cycle. Cervical fluid is an essential element to conception due to its ability to keep sperm alive for up to five days (in fertile quality fluid), protects it from the acidity in the vagina and transports the sperm to the outer third wall of the fallopian tube where fertilization takes place.

What Does Cervical Fluid Look Like?
Cervical Fluid will range in abundance, consistency, color and fertile quality due to the increasing level of estrogen within the first phase of your cycle. Typically the changes in fluid will fall into the following pattern.



Dry or Light Moisture - INFERTILE
After menstruation for a period of 3 - 5 days you may experience no fluid at all or a small amount of moisture. Color of any existing fluid is clear or slightly white but will dry immediately on your fingertips. Overall sensation is not wet at this time.

Sticky or Gummy - INFERTILE
Cervical Fluid then changes to feeling sticky for a period of 2 - 3 days. When rubbed between your fingertips it may give a small amount of resistance, feels slightly gummy or may even crumble. The color will range from clear to white and although you may feel a small amount of moisture the fluid is still dry and does not feel wet at this time.



Creamy, Milky, Lotion Like - FERTILE
Cervical fluid now becomes much more abundant and will feel wet from 2 - 4 days. It can appear either thick and creamy or like hand lotion and will form peaks in your fingertips when pulled apart or can be thinner and look milky. Color of the fluid is white or yellow and the overall vaginal sensation is wet.

Eggwhite Cervical Fluid - VERY FERTILE
Cervical fluid now reaches its most fertile stage for 1 - 5 days. The fluid will look and have the consistency of eggwhites. It is slippery to the touch and if pulled between the fingertips will stretch 1 - 10 inches! The color can be clear or iridescent and the overall sensation is extremely wet.


Dry, Moist or Sticky - INFERTILE
Cervical fluid will now change drastically due to the drop in estrogen and the surge of progesterone following ovulation. It can be dry, watery, moist or sticky and will remain in that stage until the end of your monthly cycle - which is the day before your menstrual period begins. Any fluid at all will dry up quickly upon your fingertips, can range from no color to white and your overall vaginal sensation will be dry at this time.

[NutMeg76]

I check it throughout the day. You would mark the most fertile CM for that day. The info Chen posted was really good. It leaves out watery CM which is also fertile. Some women go a long time thinking they don't have fertile CM because they get super watery, slippery fliud and don't know that that is also fertile.

I check mine before I pee. I either check just by touching a finger at the vaginal opening, or by wiping. I uaully use the wiping method when the overall sensation of wetness or slippery feeling let me know that my CM is fertile. I use the finger method on drier days. I didn't start doing this until a few cycles ago, and found out I have creamy CM much more often than I ever knew I did.

I also check when I check my cervix.

[Renee1015]

Sorry if this is TMI but I find one of the best ways to check CM is after a BM.

[NutMeg76]

Sorry if this is TMI but I find one of the best ways to check CM is after a BM. [/b]

I agree. I do the same thing. I like to check before too though, just incase pushing makes it come out in a blob and you totally miss it.

[Renee1015]

I agree. I do the same thing. I like to check before too though, just incase pushing makes it come out in a blob and you totally miss it.
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Very true...I tend to do that too.

[diznynurse]

How do you check your CM? Do you just wipe with a tissue before you use the restroom, after? Do you check it when you check your cervix? Do you do it throughout the day or just in the am, or what? If it's different in the morning than it is at night what do you chart? I am probably making this harder than it should be. TIA ladies!!![/b]

Everyone is different, you can check on the TP and if it's is wet/slippery when you wipe then it's fertile. If it's not slippery in the morning but is in the evening then you mark it as fertile and vise versa. You can also check internally if you want. I have heard that even if you don't notice fertile cm on the tp, all women have some fertile cm up inside. Good Luck!

[ashleighgurl]

When I first started checking my cm, I would just use tp, but when I noticed that I wasn't really understanding what mine was .. If that makes sense .. So, I started checking my cm when I checked my cervix. I usually only check once a day, but sometimes I will check twice a day because I have noticed that mine seems to change depending on the time of the day.

[Tiff802]

Thank you guys for all of your help!!!