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...journey is precarious. Unless the proper hor mones are present in appropriate concentrations, setting the stage for ovulation and fertilization, this intricate chain of events will not be initiated. The egg will not burst from the ovary, the cervical mucus will be too sticky for the entry of sufficient sperm into the uterus, and the lining of the uterus will not prepare to receive the fertilized egg. Indeed, hormonal disorders at any point in the sequence make it so fraught with peril for eggs and sperm that perhaps a third of all potential pregnancies end at the time of implantation...
...vaginal fluids. In the first days after menstruation, the vagina feels dry because of a decline in hormone production, a sensation that can be confirmed by the woman's examining finger. This is the first "safe" period. Within a few days, as the estrogen levels rise, the mucus feels tacky and appears cloudy and the fertile period begins. Then, at the estrogen peak, the mucus becomes smooth, slippery and stretchable like raw egg white. This condition-which occurs within 24 hours or so of ovulation-usually lasts one to two days and signals maximum fertility. Three days after...
...feels mashed by critics can take comfort in what used to be written about Gustave Courbet. Consider the broadside he got from Alexandre Dumas fils in 1871: "Under what gardener's bell, with the help of what manure, as a result of what mixture of wine, beer, corrosive mucus and flatulent edema can have grown this sonorous and hairy pumpkin, this aesthetic belly, this imbecilic and impotent incarnation of the Self...
...government told the school it couldn't call its team the Indians anymore. The bigwigs in Hanover were forced to change the nickname. First it was the Big Green. Gross. With a name like that it sounds like the team's three big stars would be Mold, Mildew and Mucus...
...device can also reveal that the source of a woman's infertility is a "thick-mucus syndrome" that sperm cannot penetrate, he added. Once identified, this syndrome can be combatted with medical treatment or artificial insemination...