SMEP Thread

[atomic sagebrush]

Today is my fourth day of chocolate colored cm like spotting. Only on toilet paper if I wipe and more if I go #2. My temps are low: today fell way below coverline. I have no idea what's going on. I assume AF is going to start tomorrow....never experienced 4 days of spotting before my period.

Some months it can happen that way even without swaying. I have had that some months even when I was not doing anything to sway at all.

Can you tell me more about supps you're on and what your diet is like? You may be a little short in raw materials to make sex hormones with so the lining isn't holding together as nice as we'd like.

[MeanVeggieGal]

Thanks @Atomic

Herbs: Licorice stem and whole cinnamon stick steeped in my morning tea of mate and Korean Ginseng (3-4x a week).

Additionally I take ashwaganda, maca powder in wheatgrass and Siberian Ginseng (5 days a week).

Diet: I eat full fat raw milk from grass fed cows, grass fed beef, chicken, raw eggs and cook almost every single meal.

Temp: My preO temps are between 97.2 - 97.5
My postO temps are between 97.6 and (just recently) 98.1

[Laura2013]

I did a version of SMEP this month. & intended to do it properly but was so ill the week we should've been doing every other day, that we only ended up DTD o-3, o-2, o-1. So three attempts in the fertile window. I guess this means if I am pregnant it will almost certainly be a boy, but after 9 months TTC, I just want to be pregnant now! Currently 7dpo.
Good luck everyone ��

Hello! Very new to this!
I just want to check - if you did it the 3 days from OD, why would it sway blue? I'm stuck for methods and weren't sure whether to try before OD or just after?

Thanks

[DesiG]

So 2 days late spotting the day before AF was due for not even 5 minutes and day of AF was do spotting not even 5 mintues again. Lots of egg white CM still and tested today BFN. Here is my chart someone please take a look and let me what you thinkCapture+_2016-12-04-06-28-29.jpg

[atomic sagebrush]

Thanks @Atomic

Herbs: Licorice stem and whole cinnamon stick steeped in my morning tea of mate and Korean Ginseng (3-4x a week).

Additionally I take ashwaganda, maca powder in wheatgrass and Siberian Ginseng (5 days a week).

Diet: I eat full fat raw milk from grass fed cows, grass fed beef, chicken, raw eggs and cook almost every single meal.

Temp: My preO temps are between 97.2 - 97.5
My postO temps are between 97.6 and (just recently) 98.1

Are you taking these things for swaying or is this something you normally do.

Some of these things are not things I recommend for anyone TTC.

I would have you lose the licorice, ashwanganda, maca, wheatgrass, and ginseng. All definitely affect hormone levels.

Your full fat mlk and beef, chicken eggs should only help correct LP issues.

[atomic sagebrush]

So 2 days late spotting the day before AF was due for not even 5 minutes and day of AF was do spotting not even 5 mintues again. Lots of egg white CM still and tested today BFN. Here is my chart someone please take a look and let me what you thinkCapture+_2016-12-04-06-28-29.jpg

I"m not sure you've ovulated yet. I have been seeing a weird pattern with some ladies where they have up and down temps, then a rise but MORE up and down temps (albeit higher than the first set) and then a third rise and only at that point do the temps stay consistently high. The rise in temps tricks the FF algorithm into giving crosshairs but then it will move the crosshairs when tthe temps go higher.

I would be having attempts if I were you.