Your Fallopian Tubes
You may know that you have two of them, but perhaps their size-four inches long-and their consistency will come as a surprise. Your fallopian tubes remind some experts of stretched tubes of cooked pasta. Lying just above your ovaries, fallopian tubes have featherlike fingers at the ends closest to the ovaries. They look a little like pieces of seaweed floating on the ocean. The little feather tips are called fimbria, which is the Latin word for fringes, and they make it easier for the tubes to stretch out and capture the ripened egg at ovulation time. Picture millions of tiny hairs and you’ll be able to envision the fimbria. better. Mucus and fluids help move the egg into and down the pastalike tube where it waits to meet the sperm. If no suitor appears on time, the egg is simply absorbed back into your body.
Never sell those fallopian tubes short’ Lined with muscular ligaments, they actually contract to help sperm and egg move closer together and toward conception. Closer to the uterus, they tighten up to hold onto an egg until the uterus is ready
for the planting process. which won’t occur until five to seven days after ovulation. Every once in a while. fallopian tubes are unable to catch eggs as they are released. However, if an egg falls to the floor of your pelvis, fallopian tubes have the power to reach down and pick it up, pushing the egg along closer to conception.