Do you always lose your mucus plug before your water breaks?

[~Trish~]

I always feared my waters breaking somewhere inconvenient too! But with both my labours my waters didn't break until the very end, just before bubs arrived and both times it was a very disappointing trickle. How practical of me LOL!

I lost my plug in very early labour both times too.

[Nai]

I lost my mucous plug and my waters broke 2 days later - on my friend's COUCH!! Fortunately I was lying down and manged to roll off and stand up before the real gush and more fortunately, they have a tiled floor

[Captain]

I had absolutely no warning! I was in bed and thought I was peeing myself. I got up walked to the shower and they just gushed!! I'd had absolutely nothing happen before hand.

[fionas]

I have NO idea what happened to mine. Maybe it's still in there LOL - DD is 9 months old.

[Zee]

I lost mine a few mins before my waters broke...luckily for me I was in the labour room anyway LOL.

[danniellabella]

I lost my mucous plug on a Tuesday afternoon and freaked out coz I didn't realise what it was. I rang my mum in a panic and she told me that is was the plug. I was surprised coz I have also heard it referred to as the "bloody show" and that's what I expected, blood but there was none.

I had contractions after I lost the plug and for the rest of Tuesday I thought I might have been going into labour. Wednesday came and I had no contractions but then at 2am on Thursday morning my waters broke and 30mins later I was getting contractions and was in labour.

[Mumof2Girls]

I remember losing my plug the day before I had DD1, with the other 2 I don't remember actually losing it. My waters have always had to be broken manually as well.