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The mucus is produced by glands that are located in the cervical canal and has a primary protective function. In fact, it forms a cap that closes the cervical canal passage between the vagina and uterus, thus preventing bacteria or other foreign organizations, enter the uterine cavity. For most of the cycle, the mucus is also impenetrable to sperm and then only near ovulation becomes, facilitating their passage to the uterus, protecting and nourishing. If the amount of mucus is not enough, or its chemical properties make it hostile to sperm, fertilization can not happen, although there are reports in the right time. The mucus is the most obvious signal to detect the initial and final phase of the fertile period. The quantity and quality of cervical mucus changes during the cycle, under the influence of estrogen and progesterone: the preovulatory phase, when estrogen increases, produces a kind of fertile mucus, elastic and stringy, you can also lengthen several cm. between thum...