CM after O???

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Registered: 03-30-2003
CM after O???
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Wed, 08-13-2003 - 9:35am
Hello,

I'm at 7dpo and have just had a streak of yellowish creamy cm (sorry if TMI). I was also cramping a bit this morning, but was doing that from 3dpo-5dpo also. It stopped for 2 days and today, it's back. I wonder, early AF? Could I have thought I O'd last week and really didn't? All the signs were there. I had EWCM (not a lot) with a tinge of blood (I've never had O-spotting, but I assumed that's what this was). My OPK was pos. all day that day and went neg the next day along with the cm drying up. My temps have been steady and CP has gone from very high (at O) to low and hard, back up to high at around 5dpo and stayed there?? I am also still BFing, so maybe I didn't O? I have yet to have AF return post-partum (so, I do not know what CD I would be on). Any answers or thoughts are appreciated. Thanks. BTW, I will not test until around 12dpo at the soonest. I've seen too many chemical pregnancies and would rather not know! Thanks again.
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Registered: 05-23-2003
Wed, 08-13-2003 - 9:50am
Well implantation starts at 7-10dpo and all sorts of things could happen. I myself didn't find I had anything noticeable that showed that I was implanting at the time other than cramping. I usually never cramp before AF except for 1 week prior for about 10 minutes and that's it. Now I'm 6.5 weeks along and I'm STILL cramping mildly like AF but we know it's just my body making the necessary adjustments for peanut.

Either way I think that it's possible it's implantation from the sounds of it. If anything else changes in the CM as in you get ewcm or sticky and then brown spotting or something then it's a good indication that AF could be coming or you are then experiencing implantation. As I said I didn't even know I'd implanted and then just took a HPT 2 days before I was supposed to test according to Fertility Friend and they came up ++ and then a few days later took 2 more and got ++ again so.

Let us know how it goes.

Traci

Traci & Roger

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Registered: 08-02-2003
Wed, 08-13-2003 - 10:57am
Hi, I am also around 7 DPO, and the same is happening to me. It's been like this for about 2 days, and I have never seen this before, that I recall. Of course this is really the first time I have paid close attention. I had a positive OPK last Tuesday. My BBT's were a little high the next couple days (I was on vacation, sleeping in etc), and then they went back down and then up again, so I am not exactly sure what day I O'd.

Did you notice any temp drop with the CM? I did yesterday, and then it was back up today. I read in TCOYF that it is not common to have an estrogen surge post O, that coincides with creamy CM. I don't know whether or not this gives any indication of pregnancy, but I don't think it is a bad thing either.

I'm curious what happens, good luck!

Chris