MSE Pregnancy Club 22

Doglover

Sequeena wrote: »

Pigpen I jumped him yesterday (was so very sore though!) so maybe just maybe this has kicked it off!

DogLover it's like... well... snot ... yuck, sorry but it's pretty nasty!!

Sorry to quiz about something yuck but . . . Is it obviously different to "normal" discharge? Does it have any sort of form/shape that makes you know it's not just discharge? Just researching ready to look for the signs!

Sequeena

Here's a few links to pictures (none are mine)

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=pregnancy+mucus+plug&um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&sa=N&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&channel=s&biw=721&bih=603&tbm=isch&tbnid=c2F2MrwhqEIQMM:&imgrefurl=http://forum.baby-gaga.com/about222242.html&docid=hslTbRpmOez3LM&w=307&h=263&ei=-LMtTsGRH9Cltwfb_qXXAg&zoom=1

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=pregnancy+mucus+plug&um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&sa=N&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&channel=s&biw=721&bih=603&tbm=isch&tbnid=AdoL3O6TWN-9SM:&imgrefurl=http://community.babycentre.co.uk/post/a13163345/tmiwarning_gross_photos_of_mucus_plug&docid=MjACzPnKUAaYMM&w=1024&h=768&ei=-LMtTsGRH9Cltwfb_qXXAg&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=263&page=1&tbnh=142&tbnw=186&start=0&ndsp=9&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0&tx=89&ty=48

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=pregnancy+mucus+plug&um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&sa=N&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&channel=s&biw=721&bih=603&tbm=isch&tbnid=nE89ECzJi-4HeM:&imgrefurl=http://community.babycenter.com/post/a10095575/mucous_plug_warning--picture_included&docid=qqCiInl0vbPNRM&w=640&h=480&ei=-LMtTsGRH9Cltwfb_qXXAg&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=174&page=1&tbnh=139&tbnw=174&start=0&ndsp=9&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:0&tx=125&ty=28

Mine is still only green at the minute... it comes away in a big thick blob like the second picture then has a 'trail' like the last picture. Trust me when you see it you'll know what it is xx

ETA: I've never found it in my underwear it only comes away when I wipe x I don't know if that's the same for everyone.

pigpen

Discharge is what you always get, watery or whiteish and creamy.. believe me.. you know!! It is thick and like a huge bogey and normally has blood in it but if you have had it reform.. like Sequeena.. it is just green... like having a cold.. squashed frog green! I promise you, you will know the difference!

And mine never looked like any of the pics above.. ..

Doglover

Ace, cheers ladies. I've defo had increased discharge which is why I wanted a heads up in case the whole plug thing passed me by but it doesn't sound as though it will!

PP is your OH likely to man up to the job once this LO is born?

Sequeena

Pigpen mine didn't look much like those ones either :rotfl: I may have to take a picture of mine when it happens again! Mine was really green, like my foof had sneezed!!

Doglover

And who says pregnancy can lose dignity!! Ha ha!

Sequeena

Doglover wrote: »

And who says pregnancy can lose dignity!! Ha ha!

I've got no bloody shame :rotfl: was more than happy to jump on the table and get prodded internally by my midwife the other day pmsl!!

pigpen

Doglover wrote: »

Ace, cheers ladies. I've defo had increased discharge which is why I wanted a heads up in case the whole plug thing passed me by but it doesn't sound as though it will!

PP is your OH likely to man up to the job once this LO is born?

He has been better with Squeak since she got to about 10/11 months.. but he was about as much use as a chocolate teapot when she was tiny.. not helped by me knowing what to do etc and I think it made him feel a bit inadequate.. & not helped by her just wanting me and screaming when he picked her up.. I did try hard not to jump in and take over whenever he was doing something differently to me.. I made gentle suggestions about other ways to do things and things I have found helpful he might like to try if it helps him.. .. I was very diplomatic... for me... so probably not at all lol

Sequeena wrote: »

Pigpen mine didn't look much like those ones either :rotfl: I may have to take a picture of mine when it happens again! Mine was really green, like my foof had sneezed!!

I am sure we have seen enough manky pics of vaginal secretions for one evening.. though it is a very generous offer.. thank you!

*Twinkle*

i have a OH who's about as usefull as a ashtray on a speedboat, shows no intrest at all, but i dont really expect him to be one of these hands on dads, he's very old fashioned in his ways and thats just him, i will be going in the hospital with him but when it all "kicks off" he's gonna go wait in the corridoor, thats not cos he's not wanting to be there, but we both know at the 1st sight of any blood, he'll hit the floor. it does annoy me at times cos i feel like it's my baby, rather than ours, but i know once she's here he'll try his best and i'll only have to ask him to do something and he will, prob wont get it right and ill end up doing it myself but god loves a trier eh?

Apricot

smileyface26 wrote: »

Hi all!

Eek - just read Sparkle's birth story - wow. But glad to here that there is the calm after the storm.
I've read back and as per can't remember a thing....

Apricot - which area of gthe world are you in? Same here with the birthing pool - midwife centre allows it for those low risk mums but any complications and your whisked off to the delivery suite upstairs...... I was considering a water birth - but you can't have pethidine if thats what you want.....so I'm going for a normal eviction in the knowledge that if I want pethidine i can just hop into the big ensuite bath in the room with G&A and pethidine!

Im in Cardiff (and Im far too much of a wimp to be reading birth stories at this stage! You are a brave lady )


Still not as much as a twinge over here, I refuse to look at plug photos but Im guessing from the comments that when I see it I'll know :cool:

Doglover My OH has been getting better as things have progressed and he is now getting really excited about the impending birth! I do think it's strange for the partners though as they don't go through the physical changes that we do and don't have that "connection" with the baby that we do.

Although he did tell me that sleeping in the bed with me is like a scene from alien these days as you can see baby's movements from the outside and it freaks him out :rotfl: