Cervical Mucus Ovulation Sign

Cervical mucus ovulation predictor is a great way to know which are your most fertile days. The cervical mucus or cervical fluid changes throughout your menstrual cycle. If you check these changes daily, you will be able to determine exactly when you are ovulating.

How the cervical mucus ovulation signs can help you get pregnant?

Understand the stages and changes in cervical mucus:

1. The first phase of ovulation is the follicular phase. It starts just after your period. The consistency of the cervical mucus is dry and thick. There may not be any mucus or it is dry and crumby and cannot stretch much. It is sticky and breaks easily when stretched between your fingers. It does not stretch more than an inch or a centimeter.

2. After a few days the mucus becomes more creamy, lotion like, but still does not stretch much. Its elasticity increases with the rise of estrogen levels, but not enough to become slimy and stretchy. This thick crumby dry mucus is known as hostile cervical mucus. It is not friendly to sperm, but is rather acidic and too thick for the sperm to penetrate.

3. With the approach of ovulation, the cervical mucus becomes more transparent, thin and slippery. It becomes more watery and clear. The luteinizing hormone surges as the consistency of the mucus changes to become like raw egg white. It becomes stretchy and can be stretched to 3 inches or about 6 centimeters. This type of mucus is a sign of the most fertile days.

Egg white cervical mucus is a sure sign of ovulation. This is the best time to try to conceive just before ovulation occurs.

5. After ovulation (luteal phase), the cervical mucus becomes again dry, tick and sticky. during this phase progesterone surges. Check here for a natural progesterone cream.

 

If you look closely at the cervical mucus, you will notice that there can be discharges of watery or egg white mucus more than once during your cycle. You might have egg white cervical mucus and still not ovulate. That is why it is necessary to use more than one method of tracking your fertility days. Combining cervical mucus ovulation monitoring with charting your basal body temperature is a very good combination. They are complementary, as watching the cervical mucus you can see when you are about to ovulate and the change in basal body temperatures shows when you have already ovulated. With my last trying to conceive period which lasted for months, I was very eager to make a progress and combined, the above two methods with ovulation prediction kit (OPK). You might also try to use a fertility monitor. You might just as well feel comfortable using both and know that the happy day of getting pregnant is just about to occur.