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buggage · Apr 11, 2007, 09:16 PM

This is something I didn't experience with my first son, so this is new for me. Anyone know what it looks like to lose your mucous plug? I think I might have just lost it, but I don't know for sure.:confused:

asuka · Apr 11, 2007, 10:50 PM

Originally Posted by buggage

This is something I didn't experience with my first son, so this is new for me. Anyone know what it looks like to lose your mucous plug? I think I might have just lost it, but I don't know for sure.:confused:

Hey, I also never saw mine but my midwife told me it was yellowy and mucusy. It apparently doesn't smell and you could get a bit of yellow stuff for a while. I hope that sort of helped.

curlybenswife · Apr 11, 2007, 11:45 PM

Ok your not going to thank me lol it looks like a blob of white snot tee hee I know the morning I lost mine that it wouldn't be long before they were cutting millie out :D

Lacey19 · Apr 12, 2007, 12:53 AM

So? Was it? Is it not a bit early for you hunny? Good luck either way xxxx

curlybenswife · Apr 12, 2007, 01:07 AM

Early is a fallacy Lacey there is no such thing most people are actually condsidered full term after 36 weeks anything after that is just a bonus I can assure you a baby born anything after 32 weeks will be absolutely fine no matter of the size.
They can be as tiny as our daughter or up to 6lbs or more there really is no rule of thumb. You will also learn never to say the words bit early isn't it just wait till you get past 32 weeks and feel like a weeble.

Lacey19 · Apr 12, 2007, 02:12 AM

My mistake, I'm still learning!

buggage · Apr 12, 2007, 07:02 AM

Hey guys, thanks so much for the replys! Yea, I went to the bathroom last night I there was a big white/clear glob that didn't look like the normal discharge, and didn't look like anything wrong. So I am pretty sure that that is what it was.I started my 35th week yesterday, so I'm not too worried about it. My first son was a week overdue, so I hoped this one would be a bit earlier. It'll also help with the size issue, as my first son was 8lbs 21 1/2 inches, so this little guy will most likely just be around 6 or so lbs. I have had a feeling for the last month that it was going to be coming soon, as I have been having a lot stronger contractions lately, and I normally don't even feel them. (didnt feel any until 4-5 cent. With my first one, and didn't feel them when they gave me some breathamene to stop contractions this time around at 31 weeks) So I figure since I have been feeling them at all it was a good sign it was coming soon. I've also heard that once you lose your plug, it doesn't necisarily mean you will go into labor right away. You could go in right away, or up to two weeks later. So, it would be a bit nice if he waited until 37 weeks(just for my own piece of mind of his safety), but I won't object to anything earlier. ;0) Thanks again for all the replies, helped ease my mind, as I had no idea what to think. I will let you know when something starts to happen. ;0)

curlybenswife · Apr 12, 2007, 07:07 AM

You will be fine here if they weigh over 5lb 5 oz at birth they don't keep them in anyway me on the other hand had 8 weeks in the special care unit lol oh the fun NOT.
Just remember that nothing is ever as bad as it seems lots of hugs xx

buggage · Apr 12, 2007, 07:30 AM

Yeah, there was mechonium staining my first son, and I didn't get to hold him or see him for 5 hours after he was born, and when I finally saw him he was in an incubator and had an IV in the belly button and some wires hooked up. He had to be on antibiotics for 2 days after he was born, and then I could finally take him out of the incubator longer then to feed him on the third day, fourth morning we got to go home. So that is something I would rather avoid this time around, it scared me so badly. Yep, you are right, no matter how bad you have it, someone else always has it worse. My only concern is that a friend told me that if they were born before 37 weeks here in our town, they had to fly you to phoenix because they didn't have the right equipment to treat them. I hope that isn't the case, and hopefully he won't need any special treatments in any case. I think my doctor kind of expected me to go in sooner too, because at my last appointment he checked the position of the head to make sure he was in the right position(almost as an after thought. He was about to leave then said "well, lets have you lay down again and see if I can figure out how he is laying"). That was last week. Oh well, all that can be done is to sit on my duff and wait now.;0) darn those waiting games

curlybenswife · Apr 12, 2007, 07:40 AM

You will be fine just enjoy the peace while it lasts giggle do you have any idea what colour your bump is?

kanicky73 · Apr 12, 2007, 07:48 AM

Buggage, the funny thing is the time you have to wait after losing your mucus plug is so different for every woman and every pregnancy, its weird. I lost my mucus plug with my son and went into labor the next day. With my daughter I lost it and she didn't come until 3 weeks later! My doctor said that all the mucus plug is, is the cervix beginning to thin and lengthen not necessarily dilate, and that's where the mucus comes from. It sounds like that is what you experienced though! Gross isn't it, ah the wonderful little things that happen to our bodies when we are pregnant! LOL, good luck and please let us know when the big day happens!

curlybenswife · Apr 12, 2007, 07:53 AM

Originally Posted by kanicky73

Buggage, the funny thing is the time you have to wait after losing your mucus plug is so different for every woman and every pregnancy, its weird. I lost my mucus plug with my son and went into labor the next day. With my daughter I lost it and she didnt come until 3 weeks later!!

Exactly I lost mine in the morning and I gave birth that night the even funnier thing is I was being monitered by the hospital twice a day with traces and bp and yet that morning even with the trace results showing baby being as lively as hell no one picked up on it I did mention to the midwife about the mucas she just not to worry lol so hell who knows

kanicky73 · Apr 12, 2007, 07:55 AM

I don't think they will ever be able to pinpoint exactly when a woman's body says "ok I've had enough kiddo, you gotta go!" hell if they could do that I would rather they take all the pain away first without sticking a needle in my back!! LOL

curlybenswife · Apr 12, 2007, 07:56 AM

Oh poop don't that pain block I ended up having before my section had to be the worse part of it yikes I hate needles so so much

buggage · Apr 12, 2007, 07:57 AM

You mean what I am going to have? Boy or girl? It'll be another boy. So I'll have two little roughians running around hahha. I'll be great.but yeah, there is no such thing as peace in my house as it is hah

curlybenswife · Apr 12, 2007, 07:58 AM

OOOOOO just you wait my sister has two lads and heck they are a nightmare the youngest turns one at the end of the month and he is a terror he dive bombs his 4 year old brother and tackles him to the floor lol

kanicky73 · Apr 12, 2007, 08:00 AM

I have a son and a daugther and I tell you what, I would take 10 boys over another girl any day!! Little girls are sassy, whiny, argumentative and the list could go on! Don't get me wrong I love both my kids, but from a parents perspective, little boys seem to just go with the flow! LOL, either way you will be just fine buggage! Any names picked out?

buggage · Apr 12, 2007, 08:08 AM

HAHHAA U Got to LOVE BOYS! I love the fact that they are so tough. I don't know what I would do with a girl, they seem so much more delicate. Of course, if we raise them the same, I doubt they would be as delicate haha. I just know the boy route, so I am glad I am going down that road again. Yes, my epi didn't work with my first. I had back labor(which ended up breaking my tail bone) I was induced twice, because the first time didn't work. When I finally got my epi there was only one anethesiologist (sp) in the hospital and he was running between me and a surgery a few floors down, and so he just gave me some meds through my I've, and when he finally got a chance to give me the epi, I was like dilated to a 8 and was having contraction on top of contraction, and he had to put it in twice, because the first time it popped back out haha. So I ended up looking like a mummy with all the tape he had to put on my back to hold it in. anyway, all it did was numb the front of my stomach. Nothing else. My little boy was gracious enough to come out both shoulders at once too. Hah. They said I didn't rip and I didn't need an episiotomy either, so that was all a miracle right there. I feel like I have been dilating/effacing for the last several weeks. I am always incredibly sore down there when I roll out of bed every night. But I haven't been have exams yet(suppose to start that next week) so I don't really know.

buggage · Apr 12, 2007, 08:14 AM

Yes, Eli Walker is his name. ;0) and I grew up with three brothers. Had a sister, but she is the oldest(ten years older then me) so I am more comfortable with the whole boy thing.

curlybenswife · Apr 12, 2007, 08:14 AM

Yeah but saying that my daughters a bloody fruit cake anyway the girl has no fear and sure knows what she wants can't think where she gets that from ;)
Her latest trick is to empty the kitchen drawers and climb in them like stairs to get to the work surface she is a nightmare that's for sure.
Have you got your hospital bag ready just in case anything crazy happens lol