PCOS Messages for December, 2000: Re: Can you girls help me with is 1 Q?

Re: Can you girls help me with is 1 Q?

From: Celeste (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 27 Dec 2000 09:21:41 -0600 (CST)

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At Wed, 27 Dec 2000, chris wrote: >

Hmmm. The best way to find out if she is ovulating is to do temperature charting at home; the book Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler is the golden guide on this. I know that most of is online at pineland.com, but don't have the exact link.

Anyhow a PCOS woman who doesn't ovulate may have very little CM throughout the month or may have lots of CM that is not necessarily as stretchy as the true egg-white consistency CM of ovulation time (this variation is more common). Really fertile time CM stretches several inches, you really cannot miss it. You might crack open a chicken egg to really test that so you can appreciate what the text means. You won't know her pattern until you look for it. Charting would help pin down what is going on. Some PCOS cases are fairly easy to manipulate for a pregnancy attempt with medication once you can show charts to a doctor to help determine what is needed.

One caveat: DO NOT ever think it is okay to use egg whites as a an aid to conception. It won't work (no way you can get it into the fallopian tubes) and may introduce salmonella into the body.

There is a fertility monitor you can buy to test daily for approaching ovulation, but it's over $100. The ovulation predictor kits available at drugstores are a little cheaper but only good for one month's testing. I wouldn't invest in either until you've done some charting, particularly if she doesn't have periods or if she only has a few a year. Or she can have some bloodwork done to determine where she is at, and go from there.

Regarding sex of a baby, I read a stat in a book on lesbians who did donor insemination at home that they tend to have baby boys often, for one fact. The women tend to be very vigilant about when they are about to ovulate and time the donation so that the sperm will be there at the earliest opportunity. There was something about how the pH of the CM changes throughout the window of ovulation time and that conception favored boys when fertilization happened earlier and girls when it happened later. Just a thought in case you would want to to be a test case.

>I hope you can help me with this inquiry. I've read Dr. Shelltes book on how
>to choose the sex of your baby. Though I don't really care if I have a boy
>or a girl, I read the book for further information and knowledge. As of now
>we still don't have a baby. According to his book, one must first determine
>the time of ovulation. That is through the cervical mucus and Body basal
>temparature. Now my question is, since all of us are PCOS, do all of you
>have cervical mucus? My wife has but it's kinda hard to determine if you
>have to find it everyday. Because according to Dr. Shelttes one should
>monitor her CM so she'll know when is she going to ovulate. How about you
>girls out there? I don't really know if it's applicable to us 'coz we do
>have PCOS unlike those girls who are really regular. I am determining this
>so I will know when is she really going to ovulate. the only problem is if
>one has PCOS I don't know if there will be CM or not. What do you girls
>think?

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Celeste

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