Identifying your CM

Lauren

These are the different categories of cervical mucus:

None

What it feels like (vaginal sensation): dry or maybe even a little tacky, like when you fall asleep with your mouth open.

What it looks like: nothing! 

What it feels like on your fingers: a slight dampness, maybe a slight dampness on your fingers that quickly evaporates (which means it’s that baseline moisture we talked about).

What it looks like on your underwear: nothing. Squeaky clean. You could wear those underpants again tomorrow if you wanted.

Sticky

Sticky has the least amount of water content.

What it feels like (vaginal sensation): dry, sticky, tacky, or like nothing’s going on.

What it looks like: whitish or yellowish, tiny bits of clear gummy bears, dried rubber cement, grade school paste, clumpy, pasty, crumbled cheese.

What it feels like on your fingers: springy, sticky, crumbly, dry, pasty, tacky, gummy.

What it looks like on your underpants: white or yellowish lines or areas that tend to sit on the top of the fabric rather than soaking in. When it dries it forms a crust that can be difficult to wash out on laundry day.

Creamy

Think of creamy as transitional from sticky to eggwhite. It has more water content than sticky but less than egg white.

What it feels like (vaginal sensation): cool, slightly damp, or may not feel like anything.

What it looks like: milky or cloudy, like hand lotion or moisturizer, yogurt, whole milk, whipped cream, or heavy cream.

What it feels like on your fingers: smooth, creamy.

What it looks like on your underpants: white or yellowish lines or areas that tend to sit on the top of the fabric, as opposed to soaking in. When it dries it forms a crust that can be hard to wash out on laundry day.

Egg white

Egg white has the second-highest water content of the different types and is considered very fertile (1)

What it feels like (vaginal sensation): slippery, lubricative, wet.

What it looks like: raw egg whites, wet rubber cement, can be clear or cloudy, stretchy.

What it feels like on your fingers: slippery, lubricative, viscous, or stretches an inch or more between thumb and forefinger.

What it looks like on your underpants: slippery, wet, may sit on top of the fabric or soak in slightly.

Watery

Watery cervial mucus has the highest water content and is most fertile.

What it feels like (vaginal sensation): water rushing, dripping, or gushing out of your vagina; cold, wet sensation.

What it looks like: clear or milky/clear, about the consistency of water or skim milk.

What it feels like on your fingers: wet, slippery; if you wave your hand around and it doesn’t dry, that’s how you know it’s cervical mucus rather than vaginal moisture.

What it looks like on your underpants: leaves round wet patches that soak into your underpants. 

Sometimes cervial mucus is not obvious, especially since you can have more than one type on the same day (3), but we hope these descriptions help you identify it. Here are a few other things to keep in mind:

 

Not everyone will observe all types of cervial mucus, and that’s ok!

Try all the methods above to identify your cervial mucus: look at it, rub it between your fingertips, touch your underwear. You may find that one method works better for you, and that could change each day depending on what’s going on with your body.

Practice and consistency are key to understanding your own patterns. Keep at it!

Taken from: https://kindara.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/224930608-The-many-faces-of-cervical-mucus