BSF

[love being a mummy]

Just tried it and my CM is almost a 9.
It was a 5 before doing it.

Don't really like the feel of the BS, it dried my up a little bit.
Will try BS douche next time I think.

Going to start having BS baths.

[TTC5]

I found it drying too. How much did you use? Maybe use a bit less.

[love being a mummy]

Just dipped my finger into but the tip was covered.
Yeah I think I will use less next time if I try it again.

Was just thinking, if I do the BSF but I don't get it all the way up very high, if we DTD doggy then that would mean the sperm will not swim through the BS ?

[love being a mummy]

6 hours later. PH back to a 5

[TTC5]

It really is only a quick fix hey. Go get some wheatgrass tablets they work great for pH!

[love being a mummy]

I'll look for them, thanks.

[TTC5]

I think Coles has them otherwise I get mine from Natures Works or Vitamin Me

[atomic sagebrush]

Just tried it and my CM is almost a 9.
It was a 5 before doing it.

Don't really like the feel of the BS, it dried my up a little bit.
Will try BS douche next time I think.

Going to start having BS baths.

I think your body's natural EWCM is much better for swaying than baking soda. So to me, trading EWCM (even if it's lower in pH) for BSF, is not a good trade. It does not make sense to me that very high pH is any better for sperm than very low pH and doctors agree with me.

Not a big fan of BS douche because not only is the BS drying and not good for sperm, the douche will wash away whatever CM is in there.

[atomic sagebrush]

Just dipped my finger into but the tip was covered.
Yeah I think I will use less next time if I try it again.

Was just thinking, if I do the BSF but I don't get it all the way up very high, if we DTD doggy then that would mean the sperm will not swim through the BS ?

The theoretical idea with BSF is that the high pH diffuses throughout your vjj and even goes up into your uterus and fallopian tubes all the way to the ovary. So it shouldn't matter if you don't get it up there SUPER high, it should still infiltrate throughout the vjj at least. If you are really wanting to get it near the cervix so it can diffuse up inside all the way to your ovaries, you will def. need to get it as close to the cervix as possible.

Problem is, I don't really believe this to be true/physically possible. If you put a fingerful of baking soda on your tongue, whether you put it on the front or the back, it is just not going to alter the pH of your entire throat and stomach contents, because just like your vaginal tract, it is constantly producing secretions that wash away irritants and digest food. It will change the area right around where it touched for a little while and everyone who sticks a pH stick up there will look like they have high pH but that does not mean or prove that the pH at the bottom of the stomach (or ovaries) is any different from what it always is.

You also may not even WANT sperm to swim through the BS anyway. That is going to kill off some sperm becasue it is highly unlikely that sperm like or prefer pH that is different from what nature has designed to be in there, which is pH in the 7's for both fertile CM and semen (and you can ask any doctor or sperm researcher about this and they will agree.) In fact a very high semen pH can indicate an infection that is very bad for sperm count. Most of the baby boys ever born on the face of the planet were to people who did not do a BSF.

[atomic sagebrush]

6 hours later. PH back to a 5

That is the downside - it doesn't last. And the sperm are already gone anyway.

A lot of people are finding that their pH goes up from diet, lemon water, and wheatgrass supps much more reliably than the BS.