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If ovulation is delayed would your cervix be closed by the time O roles around?

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I'm trying to make sense of my chart for this month (http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/28382e) and I'm wondering something about cervical position and delayed ovulation.

While most of my fertility signs point to ovulation on CD17/18 or somewhere around there (cervical position, cervical mucus, etc), my horrible interpretation of OPK's and my lack of sleep (and thus horrible temps) also makes it possible that I O'd later. By the time that later date rolled around, my cervix was already closed and much firmer and there was hardly any CM left.

My question is...if you ovulate late, is your cervix usually still open, high, soft when you ovulate? Or does it close up in response to the hormones of the first, almost, fake-out O date?
post #2 of 5
the estrogen and fp hormones that make you o also make your cervix center, rise, soften, and open, so no, your cervix doesnt get faked out. looking at all your signs, id say cd17 is a good guess, but i see where by your temps alone, it would be hard to call.
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Some women cervix's close up to 24 hours (or possibly longer?) before O... part of the reason being its best for the sperm to already be there and waiting when the egg is released than to show up after the fact (since they live so much longer than the egg...)
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Originally Posted by MaerynPearl View Post
Some women cervix's close up to 24 hours (or possibly longer?) before O... part of the reason being its best for the sperm to already be there and waiting when the egg is released than to show up after the fact (since they live so much longer than the egg...)
Interesting. I hadn't heard that before.
post #5 of 5
the "open" part of it is i think the vaguest part, too. even when it's closed (unless theirs like a scar tissue problem,) it's not really "closed" like shut tight, ykwim? the opening is big enough for a sperm mack truck to go through probably about anytime, if there were mucous there that would let them in.
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