CP Questions

Niffle · #1 (**permalink**) 07-21-2007, 01:44 PM

Okay, here's a direct quote from http://www.beyondfertility.com :

During the beginning of the cycle, the menstrual bleeding, the cervix is normally low and hard and slightly open to allow the blood flow out. It feels like the tip of your nose. I normally don’t check it during menstruation, simply because of the mess. After the bleeding stops the cervix remains low and hard and the os - the opening to the uterus - remains closed. This will change the closer to ovulation you approach. The cervix rises up to the top of the vagina and becomes softer and softer. At the height of ovulation the cervix feels more like your lips than your nose and the os are open to allow sperm to enter in. Sometimes the cervix seems to disappear - which, of course, it has simply become so soft it blends in with the vagina walls and rises so high that the finger cannot touch it. This is known as SHOW - soft, high, open and wet.

Once ovulation occurs the cervix drops to low and firm - once again feeling like the tip of your nose. And the os become tightly closed. (The os in a woman who has given birth vaginally will feel more open at all times because of the stretching that occurred at the birth of her baby.) This can happen right away after ovulation to several hours to several days. Again, each woman is unique and needs to find these things out over a several month time frame.

So, I've been checking my CP fairly regularly since I'm not temping. During the time I figured I was ovulating, it presented like described...the SHOW thing. Then, by Tuesday, it was low and hard. It shocked me how low and how hard it was. As of this morning, it's gotten higher and softer.

Am I obsessing too much in thinking this could be a possible pregnancy sign? Of course like a ninny, I tested this morning, and as expected it was negative. I know I have at least 3-4 days to go before I can hope for a faint positive. Can someone hold my hand and obsess with me?

Emma-Louise · #2 (**permalink**) 07-21-2007, 04:31 PM

I have read somewhere that at the beginning of pregnancy the cp is high. I think it said you could use it as a early pregnancy sign. Don't quote me on that since I have been reading so many things and obsessing over my own symptoms too ha ha. But I think it's a good sign, good luck!

Niffle · #3 (**permalink**) 07-22-2007, 11:12 AM

As of this morning, my cervix has crawled pretty much halfway up my back and has gotten a tiny bit softer. The opening is tightly closed as well. I'm crossing my fingers that this is a good sign and I get good news when testing starts on Wednesday.