PROCEDURES:

- Start by washing and drying your hands.

- Find a comfortable position,
- Reach one finger inside your vagina. 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.
- 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. Try pressing your fingers together and then slowly moving them
apart.
- If you are charting, 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 (or EWCM) for egg-
white cervical mucus.

EQUIPMENTS:

- Slide and coverslip