Cervical Mucus: Nature’s Fertility Monitor

You find the problem of getting pregnant staring you stone cold in the face. Suddenly all sorts of things you took for granted have become nail-biting issues. Like cervical mucus. Something you never heard of or took for granted, until now.

Before you reach for the next medical breakthrough “pregnancy in a bottle” promising you’ll get pregnant “instantly!” let’s back pedal a bit and start somewhere closer to home.

When you get a cold, or the flu you start sneezing.
When you are attracted to someone, your pupils dilate, and a whole lot of other stuff we (a-hem) won’t get into right now.
A sign of whether or not your body is telling you- “IT’S TIME TO GET BABY-MAKING !!” is your cervical mucus.

Cervical What?!

Yep, mucus. That yucky stuff that has you sniffing and snorkeling your way through the day when you catch someone’s cold. Then when it turns thick and gunky it really gets gross.

Your uterus (womb) carrys the baby when you get pregnant. But not only that. Shaped like an upside-down pear, the lower barrel shaped part, the cervix can either provide a superhighway for swift passage of sperm or make it very tricky business for sperm to get by.

To help it to do its job the cells that line its wall ooze mucus. As you go from one menstrual period to the next, the look, feel and how stretchy your cervical mucus is changes. Your body’s special chemical hornblowers (hormones), estrogen and progesterone that prepare your body just in case this is your lucky month control these changes.

Cervical Mucus Does What Exactly?

Every day isn’t Christmas, and every day is not a potential babymaking day. In fact for most of your menstrual period cycle cervical mucus is not friendly to sperm. It is either thick, sticky or creamy making it a nightmare for sperm to swim through. And your cervical mucus is armed with white blood cells that fight off any intruders, including sperm.

Close to your ovulation day however, your cervical mucus changes doing everything it can to help the sperm along its merry way to reach the primed egg as quickly as possible (the egg can only live 12 – 24 hours after ovulation). It becomes an easy-to-navigate thinner, watery egg white fluid.

This accelerates the free movement of the sperm across the cervix, through the uterus to the fallopian tube to the waiting egg. The cervical mucus is rich in nutrients keeping sperm alive for 3 – 5 days within your body. It also protects sperm from the uncomfortably acidic vagina. Any sperm that is damaged or slow gets stuck in the cervical mucus letting the more robust sperm swim through.

Every women has been provided with a key to her fertility and knowing what’s going on “down there” may be all it takes to bring you one step closer to your dream.
And it’s absolutely free.