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chandraandamanda
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I have not been able to figure out how to get them in the right way. We tried using them 2 different times with no luck. I feel like they probably just pulled stuff out with it. Any tips on getting it in the way it's supposed to go? If we have to do another insem, I'd like to be able to use them afterward.
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Amanda and Chandra
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First, fold it in half. If you are right handed, squish it with your right hand, so the ring is looking more like an 8. With the cup part "down" insert the first part of the 8 into your vagina. when you can't shocve it in any farter then way your hand is, let it go, and right away just use a finger to poke it the rest of the way up. I then use that finger, since it's in there anyway, to "feel" around the ring part, to make sure every bit of the ring is up as high as I can get it, and it is around my cervix. This is actually easier with AI then AF because the cervix is higher and less in the way. To test it, I sort of bear down a bit, like trying to poop, or kwiff, or a reverse kegal (make sence?) and push up on the ring part WHILE pushing down with my internal muscles. The problem is the vagina is a self cleaning organ, and it's natural peristalsis will push anything in it OUT so you want that sucker up there as high as you can get it. Oh, and during the bearing down part, if there is air in the cup, it might toot out. Then you just giggle hysterically for a minute, and continue on.
So how I do insems... I am all folded up, bum in the air, boobs in my ears, and (if he's home) I get Tim to hold my legs up and apart (sexy, so sexy) while I shove it in. We just made sure that we got the tip of the syringe into the os so there was little to no leakage to start with, and then I jammed the cup in as fast as I could, pulling the spec out with one hand while shoving the cup in with the other. When alone, I just keep my butt on the couch and my shoulders on the floor and pray for the best... one of them worked!
So yeah, I woulod actually suggest, unless it really icks you out, if you need to do another AI (which you wont) try using the cup for AF a few times to get the hang of it... just try at home not at work, cuz you'll wanna wash well after!
Need to update a ticker, Silas Anthony Jordon born Oct 11, 2013. 6th baby, so much love!
I folded them in half and inserted them just like the instructions say ..... but that was it.
I could never get it to do anything or go anywhere other than vertical. It just stayed there folded in half .... hitting the tip of my cervix.
But practice does make perfect. If my wife can do it you can! She hated them for 2 months....and now she's been using them for about 7 years for AF.
Amanda and Chandra
I would love to write the instructions for things, I tell it how I see it!
Need to update a ticker, Silas Anthony Jordon born Oct 11, 2013. 6th baby, so much love!
Get preseed, and practice with that. It's a similar consistency, and you can use the same amount you would get in a vial, and see how it goes.
~ Sandy