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Yep we’re talking about your cervical fluid.

Perhaps you know it as Cervical mucous? Or maybe “Discharge” rings more of a bell for you…

Omitting fluid from the conversation is just NUTS, because understanding what your cervical fluid is, why you have it, how it changes and what that means is essential to understanding your menstrual health and fertility.

In fact, your cervical fluid can tell you so much about your health that its a super power to understand it!

Yep that’s right, your discharge is pure liquid gold magick. Nothing to be ashamed about. In fact its something to love. Truly!

Your cervix is a wondrous thing.

So what actually IS cervical fluid then?

So let’s break down how fluid changes:

During your period you won’t notice any as it’s mixed in with your blood

After your period you may have none and your vagina may feel dry for a few days

Then your fluid will increase but be thick and creamy. This is not peak fertile fluid.

Around ovulation, you’ll notice a LOT of thin, wet, stretchy cervical fluid and you can feel very wet. This is very fertile fluid that helps sperm survive and fast track their race to your egg.

After ovulation your fluid will dry up again, becoming thicker, drier, perhaps chalky, perhaps stopping altogether before your next period.

Why is it important to understand? Know thy fluid and you know thyself. Getting familiar with the pattern of changes gives you all kinds of insights into what's going on under the hood, so you have these five powers...

1: protect your long-term HEALTH

Ovulating is actually critical for the protection of your long-term health. Know if you ovulate or not, which gives you a window into your overall and long-term health. Ovulation is the main event of your cycle and is essential for producing the hormones that boost your long term health.

Creating natural forms of oestrogen and progesterone through your menstrual cycle helps you to:

– prevent osteoporosis, and reduce the risk of some cancers,

– support your cardiovascular, brain, breast, thyroid and muscle health,

– reduce insulin sensitivity which protects against diabetes,

– and boost your immune system.

2: PREDICT YOUR PERIOD BY KNOWING WHEN YOU OVULATE

Predict when your period may be due by counting forward 2 weeks from the last you noticed fertile fluid. This is especially awesome if you have an irregular cycle and therefore can’t be sure that your period will come approximately at the same time every month.

So instead of knowing your period comes every 28-30 days for example, instead you can look for when you have fertile fluid. If you have wet, followed by dry fluid, then you can guess you may have ovulated, and you can count forward 2 weeks and expect to see a period.

This method is incredibly empowering – especially if you have irregular periods, which is common when:

you’re in your teens and are in the first few years of having a menstrual cycle,

you’ve just come off hormonal contraceptives and your body has to practice making your own hormones again,

if you’re postpartum or breastfeeding, because ovulation has been naturally suppressed for some time and has to begin ovulating again,

if you’re peri-menopausal, and the level of oestrogen that your body is making is declining, meaning you might not ovulate every cycle or “on-time” anymore,

or if you have an underlying health condition such as Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) or have an underachieve thyroid, which impact the production of oestrogen which is needed for your body to ovulate.

Since high levels of oestrogen is needed to create the wet fertile cervical fluid, and for the egg to be released (aka ovulation), its a good sign you’re about to ovulate, so your period should come approximately 2 weeks later from this point.

3: FERTILITY: know when it’s TIME TO CONCEIVE

Your cervical fluids can tell you exactly where in your menstrual cycle you are, even if you’ve lost track of counting days since your last period.

It’s especially helpful to watch your changing cervical fluid when you’re trying to conceive because your have a very special kind of cervical fluid at the time of your peak fertility, aka, ovulation.

Your most fertile fluid is wet, thin, clear, it maybe stretchy like melted mozzarella cheese – or so wet and thin that your underwear feels very wet.

When you notice this fluid and if you’re hoping to conceive, this is go-time. If you’re not trying to conceive, this is the time to use contraception.

4: NATURAL CONTRACEPTION

If you don’t want to fall pregnancy then you can learn to track your fertile signs properly and accurately (cervical fluid being one sign) to practice natural contraception, instead of going onto hormonal contraception.

5: CHECK YOUR overall HEALTH

So tell me: is this news to you? How did you feel about your cervical fluid when you were young? How do you feel about it now?

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If this blog lands with you, let me know! Your feedback, questions and aha moments help me create informative tips and content that serve you, so drop me a message on Instagram or listen to my Wild Flow Podcast for so much more on menstrual cycle awareness.

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