Ovulation discharge and fertility question?

Fertile cervical mucus is a clue that ovulation is coming. To get pregnant, timing intercourse before ovulation is important. If you can detect when your cervical mucus is most fertile, you can predict ovulation and time sex for pregnancy.

However, if you learn to track your cervical mucus, you may be able to predict ovulation before it happens, and time sex accordingly.

As ovulation approaches, your cervical mucus (sometimes abbreviated on BBT charts as CM) changes from a consistency not-so-kind to sperm, to a more fertile variety that sperm can survive and swim through better. Right after ovulation, the cervical mucus changes back to the less fertile kind.

While everyone's body is different, the general changes that cervical mucus go through are dry or sticky, to creamy, to wet, to a raw egg white consistency, and then, back to dry and sticky.

When your cervical mucus is in the wet or egg white consistency stage, ovulation is approaching. This is the best time to have sex, if you want to get pregnant.

How to Check Your Cervical Mucus:

1.First, wash and dry your hands well.

2.Find a comfortable position, either by sitting on the toilet, squatting, or standing up and putting one leg up on the bathtub edge or toilet seat.

3.Reach one finger inside your vagina; your index or middle finger is probably best. (Be careful not to scratch yourself.) Depending on how much cervical mucus you're producing, you may not need to reach so far, but getting a sample from near your cervix is ideal.

4.Remove your finger from your vagina and observe the consistency of whatever mucus you find. Do this by both looking at the mucus and rolling what you find between two fingers (usually your thumb and index finger). Also, try pressing your fingers together and then slowly moving them apart.

•If what you find seems sticky, or findings are scant, you're probably not ovulating yet.

•If what you find is creamy, ovulation may be coming, but not just yet.

•If what you find is wet, watery, and slightly stretchy, ovulation is very likely close. Find time for some baby-making sex.

•If what you find is very wet, stretches between your fingers for an inch or more, and resembles raw egg white, your cervical mucus is very fertile. Ovulation is right around the corner, and now is the ideal time for intercourse.

5.If you are charting your BBT, you should mark down on your chart your cervical mucus findings. Abbreviations often used are S for sticky, C for creamy, W for wet, and EW for egg-white cervical mucus.

No one can actually predict ovulation, so note that after the egg is released it lives from 12-4hrs maximum. So if you notice this CM ovulation will occur after 1-2days. Start having intercourse the day you see it and the day after.

Many good luckaby dust to you.

The fertile CM will be like egg whites. When it turns clear and stretchy like egg whites then you are fertile. Meaning you need to be baby dancing when it gets like this. Most of the time when you ovulate it will be more CM than previous days. Not all discharge is fertile.