Pregnancy And Baby Care Pregnancy Ovulation Ovulation Mucus

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...Cervical mucous at this time is slippery and clear. This kind of mucous is known as ‘fertile cervical mucous’ and is great for transporting sperm to the egg. You can check your ovulating mucus or the cervical mucus when you’re ovulating by using a tissue paper to wipe the vaginal opening or inserting clean, dry fingers. If you are checking this mucus, look at the color – whether it is clear, opaque or creamy, and the texture – whether it’s stretchable and slippery or tacky. Write down your observations in your fertility chart.

Types of Cervical Mucus

• Non-fertile cervical mucus: After the menstruation phase, you might feel dryness in your vagina. You may not see any mucus. However, within a few days, you will find more mucus, which is white or yellow in color and sticky.
• Pre-ovulation mucus: As a woman approaches her ovulation phase, there will be an increase in the cervical mucus. The stickiness of the mucus will increase as well as the appearance of the mucus will change. It will become more creamy white in color.
• Ovulation mucus: When you ovulate, the amount of mucus will increase and the cervical mucus will look like egg white. Sometimes this mucus is semitransparent and sometimes it is clear. The texture of the mucus is slippery. This is the time when a woman is the most fertile.
• Post-ovulation: After ovulation, there is a decline in the quality of mucus and it will become cloudier and sticky. A woman might experience vaginal dryness and the mucus might look cloudy.
• Hostile cervical mucus: This is a kind of cervical mucus that has counter-fertility properties. It does not provide a fertile environment for sperm and also obstructs the sperm from passing through the cervix into the uterus.In most cases, this mucus ensures that conception does not always follow intercourse. Doctors might prescribe natural products to thin the cervical mucus or help produce more sperm-friendly cervical mucus.