this brings NSFW to a whole new level

[the_siobhan]

A woman takes a picture of her cervix every day during a normal cycle.

Holy fascinating, Batman.

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[ladyclayton.livejournal.com]

You should post this on just_wrong.

I am so completely grossed out right now...

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I think it's fascinating and awesome.

But I pretty much feel that way about all the meat and bone bits.

[inyou.livejournal.com]

at least it is more safe for work than some pictures I've seen!

Cool with added TMI

[eveofdstruction.livejournal.com]

wow. That is really cool. I did daily manual cervical checks during the 4 years we were trying to get pregnant, so I know what that all feels like, but the visuals are neat.

[victorianrose23.livejournal.com]

heh that creeped me right the fuck out. LOL

[fragilemuse.livejournal.com]

why did i look?
i always look and always regret it yet i just keep doing it.

i'm curious about the camera she uses for this though.

[tamago23.livejournal.com]

Having been trained in midwifery, seeing this was like a flashback to all the time I spent with my face two inches from girly bits, staring through speculums while holding a flashlight.

Awesome possum.

[ash-pixie.livejournal.com]

See that's why I need to get over my squick factor...after nursing school I want to take Herbal Studies and also *possibly* become a Midwife....

Now if only the docs could leave MY cervix alone! hehe

[excess-and-oohs.livejournal.com]

i guess you were the one i stole this userpic from? or did you find it on a website somewhere?

[tamago23.livejournal.com]

Yep, I'm the one who made that icon, so presumably you stole it from me. :) Although I've given a number of people permission to use it as well, so you may have ganked it from one of them. ;) I'm fine with whoever wants to use it using it, since it's always nice to see more unassisted birthers around!

[excess-and-oohs.livejournal.com]

i am pretty sure it was on a website of about 1000 other animated gifs that a friend pointed me to, saying, "omg! this is perfect for you!"

anyway, cool. i'll keep it then :)

[tamago23.livejournal.com]

Hee, I find it kinda cool to think that my icon's out there somewhere beyond eljay. =^.^= There's so many people that've never even heard of unassisted birth, and you never know when someone's going to see it and have the seed planted in their head, when before they never even realized it was a possibility.

[unagothae.livejournal.com]

Thank you for reminding why I decided that I had no business attempting to be in med school.

Totally fine with my own fluids, but other people's fluids generally squick me right the hell out.

At least I know what a cervix looks like now. Sure, I've seen diagrams, but diagrams really don't convey the sense of a thing.

[quetzal.livejournal.com]

this was pretty cool! i admit, i had a few "gross, so that's what it looks like? ew..." moments, but then i realized that that was pretty silly, since i've got one, too.

anyhow... thanks for sharing this!

[divine.livejournal.com]

I've seen my cervix on widescreen television at the oncology clinic in Toronto General!

... so did 10 other people.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I don't have one any more, alas. I guess it's just as well, without a uterus it would just be an unprotected opening into my abdominal cavity.

Would give me a place to stash my keys though.

[disastrid.livejournal.com]

i love you.

[divine.livejournal.com]

I'd loan you mine, except right now your keys may fall out.

[ash-pixie.livejournal.com]

Ok that *is* really cool.



I only got to day 5 before I felt like puking--a side effect of having my IUD put in last year and the vast number of INTERNAL ultrasounds I had the year before leads me to get nauseated every time anything to do with the cervix comes up. It sucks. I like my cervix, it's neat!

[hel_ana]

That's really awesome and cool.

I also now see what they mean by eggwhite cervical mucus.

[ashbet]

This really *is* fascinating -- thanks for the link!

-- A <3

[panic-girl.livejournal.com]

I can't remember where the hell it was, or why the hell I looked at it, but I've seen a cervix picture before, and somewhat like ash_pixie it just made my IUD laden bits tense up and want to flee my body.

[mathochist.livejournal.com]

Wow! That's awesome. No comprende the "eww gross" reactions.

And heh, I've seen cervix pictures before, but I'm actually amazed at how much this one looks like a cock head. :)

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Both are developed from the same basic blueprint, so it does kind of make sense.

[mathochist.livejournal.com]

Yes and no. The cock head is developed from the same part and blueprint as the clit, not the cervix.

[excess-and-oohs.livejournal.com]

i was thinking that too (cock head thing) and also do not understand the eww gross reactions.

[firecat]

That's awesome.

[shnells.livejournal.com]

i was ok with the cervix piccies but the finger-fluid piccies were kinda nasty

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

totally awesome, and really instructive. thanks!

as to how she did it: I re-used a plastic speculum and macro function of normal digital camera (and a very talented boyfriend with a headlamp).

[jin-aili.livejournal.com]

thanks for posting this. I'd heard about it and wanted to check it out but didn't know the link. Everyone should see this and know what is NORMAL for women's bodies. Although not everyone has as much fluid as she does!