What's a cervix?

This past semester I took Anatomy & Physiology 2 at a local community college. The first day of class back in September, I remember looking at the syllabus and having a little party in my head when I saw we were going to do a unit on Human Reproduction.

Our professor was very ill for 2 weeks of the semester so we ended up rushing through the only unit I was excited for. We did a "crash course" in Human Reproduction. Since it was the end of the semester I had become friendly with many of my classmates. While studying for the test with them, I could not believe how many of the women in my class did not know ANYTHING - I mean NOTHING - about their anatomy. This had me thinking...

I then realized that I didn't know much about the reproductive system until I became a doula. Perhaps this is a sign that we, as women, need to educate ourselves and one another because quite frankly, no one else will.

Get out a mirror and figure out whats going on down there!

This site is a also amazing: Beautiful Cervix

And of course, I must include some of Susun Weed's insight: http://www.susunweed.com/herbal_ezine/May08/childbearing.htm

And an article relating to birth: What You Don’t Know About Your Cervix Can Ruin Your Birth

Here are some helpful pictures as well: