No, no, that's not me bragging. It's some other woman. She's showing off her cervix in all its course-of-a-monthly-cycle glory on her blog My Beautiful Cervix.
I'm no judge when it comes to an internal organ's appearance, so I wouldn't know a beautiful cervix from an ugly one. (Right now, I'd settle for one stretched open 10 centimeters, but I'm 9 months pregnant.)
Still, her daily cervix update is interesting -- she really put a lot into it (word choice, Madeline, word choice).
For 33 days, the 25-year-old doula and student midwife opened herself up (with a reusable plastic speculum) and had her head-lamp wearing boyfriend take pictures. She starts on the first day of her period and ends on the night before her next period begins.
Most notably, she includes pictures -- lots and lots of pictures -- of her cervix, its changing shape and position, and a few visual samples of her cervical mucus. If you work with people who would recognize (and be horrified by) the business end of a pap smear, consider the blog NSFW.
She also charts her basal body temperature, shows graphs of the whole ovulation cycle and describes how she's feeling each day (emotional, tired, tender heart-achy) to put all the pieces together. Apparently, such detailed documentation has never been done.
It's all pretty familiar-yet-fascinating and ...
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