Check Your Cervix: Learn how to monitor when you ovulate

Checking your cervix is one way you can check for when you are most fertile in your cycle.
Through persistent checking, you can note changes in your fertility levels throughout the duration of each cycle.
The key to checking when you are most fertile, is knowing how to first.

How Do You Check Your Cervix?
Here's how to do it!

Many women have no idea how to check. Normally it's something you expect a nurse or doctor to be able to do, but when asked to do it yourself, where do you start?
When you do check, always make sure you have clean hands. Insert your middle finger into your vagina up to your middle knuckle.
If you are going to use this method to see when you are most fertile, it often works best if you are also using a basal body thermometer and/or checking your cervical mucus too.
That way you can align all the factors together to see if everything is as it should be for great fertility.

What Are You Looking For When You Check Your Cervix?

When checking you are looking for it to be soft, high and open for easier conception.
You are most fertile when it is high and open because this is when it will be open enough to allow sperm through to your uterus for conception, followed by a hopefully healthy pregnancy.
So just remember: When it is soft, high and open, you are typically most fertile.
But how do you know the difference between it being soft (when you are most fertile) and hard (when you are least fertile)?

The key is to check enough times until you feel comfortable enough to know the difference, and with some practice you will! It's like learning to check your breasts for lumps, or learning to check your cervical mucus – once you become familiar with your body patterns you will understand the changes and be able to act upon them!
This is another reason why it is beneficial to also monitor your cervical mucus or use a basal body thermometer. Because when you are most fertile, you usually have much more abundant cervical mucus, and when you are most fertile your mucus will more likely resemble the consistency of sperm – it will almost be like an egg white consistency.
When you get this type of mucus in your cycle it's an immediate indicator for you to go ahead and check your cervix.
Or in the event you are using a basal body thermometer and you see the rise in temperature around ovulation, you will also know it is a good time to check, looking for it to be soft, high and open.
Once you know what it feels like when you are fertile, you can than go about checking it when you aren't fertile to feel the difference!
You should find it to be lower, closed and harder when you aren't at your most fertile time of the month.

Check out this video that explains how fertile cervical mucus can help you get pregnant:

An Exercise To Try Right Now

Until you get the hang of knowing how to check, you can get an idea of the difference between a soft and open or closed and hard one by putting your finger to your lips. It sounds silly, but just try it! Press down on your lips noting how they feel.
Now put your finger on the tip of your nose, press down on the tip of your nose, see how it's a lot harder than your lips? When you are most fertile your cervix can feel like the softness of your lips, but when you are least fertile it will feel a bit harder like the tip of your nose.