i have googled...and have seen MANY images, but i still cannot figure out the difference on these two. i guess mostly the "sticky" one. on my chart, i just switch it up between the two if i think one day is more "sticky" than the other, but it still looks a smidge creamy. do you ladies have any helpful advice?
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Re: difference between sticky and creamy cm?
Generally they have a slighly different taste. Sticky is saltier due to the lack of water in its makeup. The most obvious difference is the texture, creamy is more like lotion, while sticky is sort of like elmers glue that hasn't completly dried.
I hope you are just joking and dont really taste your CM
Umm...I am seriously hoping this is a joke!
To me sticky CM is the same texture as dried up rubber glue is. Creamy is more like a lotion.
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What the flip?!?!??!?! Who the freaking crap tastes their CM?
WHAT???
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ewww.
:vomits in mouth a little"
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Hahaha! Okay, I thought I was missing something! I am NOT willing to taste my CM to be able to know the difference! LOL!!!
I am sorry but I think that is nasty!!! How do you feel it helps out with charting??? BTW I would be totally replused if DH tasted his juices
Yum. What does EWCM taste like?
WAH?!
He's doing it for your sexual gratification, not out of curiosity as to what your vaginal secretions taste like. I don't need to taste my CM to be able to chart what type it is. The "besides, it's my body" is like saying "I fingerpaint with my poop. Don't like it? Don't care, it's my body."
ha!
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BFP #1: 2/15/12-Ectopic/Mtx at 6 wks
BFP #2: 10/12/12-m/c at 5 wks.
Me: MTHFR, Low AMH (1.1), High NK cells and Antiphospholipid Antibodies.
IVF with ICSI in August 2013 brought us our babies. ER-9R, 7M, 4F w/ICSI ET of 2-Grade 2 blasts.
Dx shortened cervix, PTL, and preeclampsia during pregnancy. Lots of medications and 13 weeks of bedrest, babies were born healthy at 34w4d!
::DEAD::
There is just some sh!t you should never admit. Ever.
Holy hell that's disgusting.
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ewww......
So none of you use taste as a way of identifying cm? I've never thought of it as gross or repulsive. I think sometimes people are a little too squimsih. Why is it any different from when DH encounters fluids during oral or when you encounter his? Also I don't really see the poop connection, being that there would be no benefit to playing with poo,but everyone has their preferences.
What is the benefit of tasting your CM??? And hell no I would never taste mine like PP said your DH/SO giving you oral is not because he/she wonders what it all tastes like....
No. I can honestly say that I don't believe anyone else uses taste as a way to distinguish CM. In what way does taste make it easier than sight and touch? And FTR, I don't enjoy encoutering DH's semen orally. I do it infrequently and I thoroughly dislike it when it happens. And what do you mean, no benefit to playing with poop? It's art. Duh.
So what do you feel is the benefit of tasting your CM is???
That really is disturbing! And, YES! It is different than when DH is doing oral. Personally I make sure I don't have anything oozing out of me when we have oral sex. I wouldn't want to "taste" that personally! That certainly isn't something you have seen specialist say to do. Yuck!
My Ovulation Chart
TTC #1 since March 2010
DH - SA = Low Morphology. Great overall count.
August 2012: HSG - All Clear
September 2012: Timed Intercourse 100 mg Clomid CD 4-8 w/ Repronex & HCG Injections = BFN
October 2012: Timed Intercourse 100 mg Clomid CD 4-8 = BFN
September 2013: New Doctor: 50 mg Clomid CD 5-9 & IUI #1 = BFN
October 2013: 50 mg Clomid CD 3-7 & IUI #2 = BFN
November 2013 to ??? = On a mental break for now.
BV - I heart you.
Happydays - Hahahah. I hope you're planning to eat your placenta, there are vitamins in there.
bahahahahahahahaha
To OP's credit, I don't think it's all THAT disgusting. Never occurred to me to taste it myself and I hate kissing DH after he goes down on me, but to each his own.
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oh my gah?
Literally just spit water all over my computer screen at work! Your posts always crack me up BV!
***posts on TB***
***goes to clean the house***
***comes back to check responses***
0_0 wtf.
haha and thank you to everyone who helped me with their descriptions. had no idea this post would take THIS sort of turn! XD
I must have missed the "tasting your CM" tutorial in FF.
ETA: I don't even understand why you would need to know the difference between the two since neither are fertile CM.
What ladies, you don't enjoy a little mid day cm snack? In the name of baby making how could it be wrong! Identifying the saltiness of CM will surely pinpoint O better.
Personally, I don't care about CM unless its EW. I don't really think that the difference between creamy & sticky is all that important.
dear god the mental image. it burns.
Some people eat nostril mucus. While other, apparently more hardcore people eat cervical mucus.
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Um, really really NO.
This makes sense now.
Haha amazing comparison!
She must have read somewhere that eating your own CM will get KU with twins.