Cervical mucus (vaginal discharge) can change color, texture, and amount during your menstrual cycle and early stages of pregnancy. But these changes can be subtle and vary from person to person. Read ...

When you’re pregnant, you learn all kinds of things about your anatomy that you may not have known before. And sometimes, you learn things that require extra care during pregnancy. That’s the case if ...

Cervical cancer is the most common form of gynecological cancer. A small number of diagnoses occur during pregnancy, or in the postpartum period immediately following childbirth. Receiving a diagnosis ...

Cervical cancer can impact people before and during pregnancy. Early screening and comprehensive care from a multidisciplinary medical team can help many people with cervical cancer experience a ...

When you're pregnant, you may learn about body parts you’ve never heard of before. Because let’s be honest: Even if your high school sex-ed class was detailed, how much do you really remember? During ...

How much thought do you really give to your cervix, the cylinder-shaped piece of tissue that connects the vagina with the uterus? When you're pregnant, your cervix takes center stage, opening up and ...

A new research paper was published in Oncoscience's Volume 12 on January 20, 2025, titled "Maternal, delivery and neonatal outcomes in women with cervical cancer. A study of a population database." In ...

Cervical dilation means the cervix opens up to allow the baby to move from the uterus into the birth canal. Signs that your cervix is dilating include losing your mucus plug, a bloody show, and ...

I had two second-trimester pregnancy losses, both near the 20-week mark. In my third pregnancy, I was sent to a high-risk OB-GYN and diagnosed with cervical insufficiency. I had a cervical cerclage in ...

During one of Bethany Hart’s early examinations while pregnant, she underwent a routine Pap smear and learned the results were abnormal. At the time, the then-30-year-old was about 10 weeks along, and ...

For most of my life, I was afraid to become a mother—partially because I had a traumatic childhood myself. Once I got into a healthy relationship and got married in my late 20s, other friends were ...