Cervical Position
What is cervical position?
If you're already charting your menstrual cycle, checking cervical changes are sometimes used to double-check observations made through basal body temperature charting and cervical fluid. Noting these changes may help you learn when you are ovulating. You can feel your cervix by gently inserting one or two fingers into the vagina and palpating the cervix at the end of the vagina. Prior to and after ovulation, the cervix feels firm, low, closed, and dry. Around the time of ovulation, the cervix feels soft, high, open, and wet. While menstruating, the cervix may feel firm and low and the os (opening in the cervix) open as it releases blood. It may be angled to one side slightly. Once all the blood has been shed, the os again feels closed. However, you cannot determine from the checking the pregnant cervix alone whether you are pregnant or not. Changes associated with the cervix after pregnancy has occurred usually do not happen until many weeks or even months after you miss your period.
