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a series of events called the menstrual cycle happens about once every month to prepare a woman's body for pregnancy changing levels of natural chemicals in the bloodstream called hormones control these events the reproductive organs affected by these hormones include the vagina cervix uterus fallopian tubes and ovaries the ovaries produce two main hormones called estrogen and progesterone as the level of estrogen begins to rise it causes the normally thick mucus inside the cervix to thin out estrogen also triggers other hormones to cause one of the ovaries to release an egg this process is called ovulation if a woman has sex during this time a man's reproductive cells called sperm can pass through the thinner mucus to fertilize an egg in the uterus estrogen causes the lining to thicken which prepares it to receive a fertilized egg rising progesterone levels cause glands in the lining t