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Can cervical mucus changes signal ovulation?

When menstruation ends, a woman's cervical fluid is either dry or sticky for a few days. It then starts to get wetter and wetter as she approaches ovulation. She will usually start developing a sticky quality that becomes creamy before the most fertile quality on the continuum, a slippery and often stretchy cervical fluid that resembles raw egg white. Fertility wanes when the mucus becomes cloudy, sticky and thick once again.

The build up to this wet quality cervical fluid is usually gradual. It takes up to about a week, sometimes more, to reach its most fertile, pre-ovulatory quality. As soon as the egg is released, the cervical fluid tends to dry up very quickly.

I personally think the more information you have, the more accurate your method will be. As a form of birth control, I think it is much more reliable to be able to count on at least two signs that you can cross check. Take your temperature each morning before you get out of bed and chart it on a daily temperature chart. You are fertile for one day before the temperature drops and for one day after it remains elevated.

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