Charters: Has your cervix ever softened/opened but you didn't ovulate?

[zjande]

Have you ever known your cervix to very obviously soften, open, & shortly close up afterwards, but you don't think you actually ovulated?

I am still EBF my 5 mo old (plus tandeming his 2 yo bro) & have not had a PPAF. I'm not temping but I check my cervix every day or 2 in the shower. I charted after my last baby by checking my cervix & watching CM alone & it worked well for me. But I didn't start ovulating until more than 12mos PP.

So my question is: Should I assume my changed cervix meant I O'd, or could it have just been wacky PP hormones?

(I suppose I should add that I did also see EWCM the day before my cervix softened, but I see that several times PP with each baby but no other fertility signs or an AF proceeding it.)

[zjande]

I'm answering my own thread! :nana

After much Googling & surfing, I've come to the conclusion that my cervical changes most likely were due to ovulation. I read over & over that a woman's CM may change or be confusing while breastfeeding due to hormones, but obvious cervix changes are due to ovulation.

Which is not the news I had hoped to find.

So here I go, obsessing for the next 8 days or so before I can test. Bleh. Dumb.

[lovebeingamomma]

I was wondering about this too...for me I had all the cervix/cm changes, but my temps were on the lower side...so not sure what that means.

[zjande]

Interesting that you've experienced cervical changes that didn't seem to be an obvious ovulation. But you did still end up with an AF? It's all so confusing! I read online that it's the same hormones that cause ovulation that also cause a cervix to soften & open. So one would think it safe to assume O happened with the cervical changes..... but a few others have told me that they too have experienced the cervical changes & EWCM but not seen an AF afterwards. Craziness! I just don't know what to think.

[lovebeingamomma]

no AF yet so I'm confused as well :P

[DaddyM]

During the no PP times, my wife's cervix/mucus were all over the chart. Then they tamed out a bit. Cervix wouldn't change much (usually not open though) and she'd go a week plus of streachy but not ovulation. Daughter was 11m before her first cycle (when we started tracking again).

Good luck!