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cm is watery
| Wed, 10-08-2008 - 4:17pm |
I'm so confused about CM. Most of what I notice always feels watery-slippery type. Occasionally it'll be more creamy. I can't really tell the distinction between all of them. Is all watery type fluid considered fertile?




Learning to understand your different kinds of CM can be a little tricky. Creamy CM (thick, more like lotion, has no stretchability) is not fertile. Water and EWCM is your most fertile CM and will be present in the days prior to O. EWCM is just as it sounds, much like raw egg whites. Watery CM is a more watered down versions of this. They will both stretch very far before breaking. Here's a great article that should hopefully help explain it much better than I can:
http://www.fertilityfriend.com/HelpCenter/FFBook/ff_fertility_signs.html
Good luck!
If you can find the book Taking Control of your Fertility, there are color pics of each stage of CM.
Denise
Cycle #1
Trying to Conceive Our First - Cycle #3
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is this your first timew checking CM? everyone is different, some women dont have a lot of CM. but a healthy typical woman, not on BCP, etc, has copious fertile mucous, so i am assuming that when you see true watery or EWCm , you will know it. I am not kidding you that if you look down at your (sorry) crotch when peeing, you may see a gigantic splooge of eggwhite dripping into the toilet. Aas much as a chicken egg!! If you wipe too soon, you might miss it. you will certainly still see some EWCm on the tissue, but it wont be as dramatic as seeing when your body 'cracks an egg' into the pot.
watery is also dramatic, it is like you peed your pants, LOL.
it is not JUST the texture, it is also the amount - there is so much more EW or W cm than there is creamy.
i too have the4 mini-squirt all cycle long at various days (except right after AF) but that is not nec'rly watery. I almost think true watery is just eggwhite when your body temp is up , due to activity or whatever. it is just runnier, thinned out EWCM.
i am sorry to say, but this is really one of those when you see it, you will know it. EVen now, after 5 years of tracking CM, i see some thicker, almost clear creamy cm, bordering on EW, and i think, aha, EWCM? then in a day or two, i get like 1/4 cup of true egg white in my hand, LOL and i say, AAAHHH!! EWCM!!! it's like i forget what it is like every month, and i am surprised at it.
Jenny
with DH Tighe, 4.5 yo Janey and 23 mo Edgar B
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11/1997 - Found my future husband!
5/2003 - Married my love! Life is Great!!
2/2004 - had my Jane, 9 months later ;-) Life just keeps getting better!
5/2004 - diagnosed with MS. Life Sucks!!
2/2006 - FINALLY got pg with #2, after 2 years of waiting for fertility to return, 6 cycles of trying.
11/2006 - Edgar B (GERB) arrived
10/2008 - looks like another 2 years of waiting.... I am on cycle 5 of trying!!
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6.5 yo DD Jane
4 yo DS Edgar
1.5 yo DS Hugo
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Trying to Conceive Our First - Cycle #3
my chart
Trying to Conceive Our First
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Jenny
with DH Tighe, 4.5 yo Janey and 23 mo Edgar B
click for my chart
11/1997 - Found my future husband!
5/2003 - Married my love! Life is Great!!
2/2004 - had my Jane, 9 months later ;-) Life just keeps getting better!
5/2004 - diagnosed with MS. Life Sucks!!
2/2006 - FINALLY got pg with #2, after 2 years of waiting for fertility to return, 6 cycles of trying.
11/2006 - Edgar B (GERB) arrived
10/2008 - looks like another 2 years of waiting.... I am on cycle 5 of trying!!
+ Jenny +
Dh Tighe
6.5 yo DD Jane
4 yo DS Edgar
1.5 yo DS Hugo
Baby #4 due 08/14/11