What Does a Mucus Plug Look Like?

Thats your mucus plug mine was never bloody with my last baby it can be cunks bye chunks with my first baby there was blood in it..

When you lose your mucus plug, it may be a little or a lot of gel like material. It will may be in a glob, stringy or just wetness. The mucus plug is clear to yellow-brownish in color, but may also be pinkish.

Hope this helps and good luck with loosing it means labor will come on soon..They say to 2hour if lucky or a few days too weeks..Do take lots of walks


*mary*

I just talked to my doctor. I wanted to get some opinions while I was waiting for her to get into the office. She says that it's definitely my mucous plug and she wants me to go in today. Which I can't do bcuz I can't get to her office from where I live without lining everything up in advance but since I go in on thursday I should be fine. She told me to drink a lot of fluids and watch out for signs of labor.

Ooooh, exciting!

This is really starting to freak me out. Nobody has any definite time frame for how soon I can go into labor after these symptoms first start to appear. I keep hearing two weeks. I heard two weeks after the baby dropped which was closer to a month ago. I heard two weeks after I started the prodromal labor which is right now. Now i'm losing my plug and they're still telling me two weeks. What the heck? Is everything two weeks? Why don't they just say that these are not definite signs that i'll be in labor anytime soon? Why don't they just say that they have no clue? Grrrrrr!!! Oh well. Hopefully he'll be here soon I am beyond exhausted.

Well, two weeks is better than a month, I am sorry, I just could not resist! It is a start anyway, how many weeks are you, keep walking and don't forget the sex(ha, ha) hopefully soon you will be in the delivery room! Did you say you are having a natural or c-section. You will know more when you see the dr, hopefully you will not have to hear two weeks unless it is needed.
The best to you and yours!

You can lose your mucous plug as early as 2 to 4 weeks before labor begins. Heck, if you've been pregnant before you can lose your plug more than once because it regenerates itself. It is .N.O.T a sign of labor. If you're in the last few days of your pregnancy anyway, it's usually a coincidence if you lose your plug and then go in to labor.

I thought you weren't supposed to have sex once you lose your mucus plug?

Lol, it totally looked like snot to me (or, you know when your husband's semen comes back out- like a huge ol' lump of that)
i only saw it with my second baby, and I went into labour the same day
(in the evening).

I saw it in the morning, waht had happened was, I was feeling this... Sensation in my sleep... All kinds of sexy sensations it was going on for ages.. So when I was a bit more awake, I accosted my poor still-half asleep husband.
I went back to sleep, poor husband had to go off to work. When I did get up, I went to the toilet and .H.E.L.L.O !!!!!! I knew it was too much and too solid to be from sex earlier. The sexy sensations I had been feeling were due to my cervix starting to dialate. I felt normal for the rest of the day.
I went into labour at about 6.30-7pm that same evening (my due date!!!) baby was born at 23 minutes after midnight.

You can have sex after yuo lose the mucus plug, it's after your water breaks that you are not supposed to.


Good luck!!!!!!!!!!

Lol el, that's hilarious about your husband.

And thanks for clearing that up... I knew i'd heard something about not having sex after some landmark pregnancy event because of infection.

I'm a first time mom and 18. I don't even know what a real contraction feels like let alone know what a mucous plug looks like. I am 35 weeks pregnant and a little scared of what to expect. But I just used the restroom like 20 minutes ago and saw like this white/clearish floaty thing just chilling in the toilet. I'm wondering if this is my mucous plug? I remember reading that someone said they where like extremly "wet" all day( she said its like you blew alot of snot in a tissue) and thats how I've been all day today... I don't know what to think or if I should be worried?

im 39 weeks so im about ready to pop anyway,i had mucus thing through the night on tue and a bit on wed morning.. mine was clear and it looked like a blob of jelly

even though this post is so old and has been bumped it's so cute to look back on when you girls were pregannt

im still pregnant sob sob