Well guys thankyou all for you advice, in the end i called up the maternity ward i'm booked into and they said to come in when i could. I waited till the boys were home form school and left with my brother then off i went. By this time i was convinced that the tightenings in my belly were stronger and more frequent than usual but of course i was sat on my bum taking note of everything when usually i'm doing 40 million different things and letting bump take care of itself.

I took the offending "thing" with me and it mystified them, it wasn;t a plug but they said it seemed more like it was made of tissue as in a huge chunk of flesh, infact the doctor jokingly (i think) asked if one of the kids could have hidden a bit of his tea there, in retrospect it did actually look like a bit of raw chicken breast, but it came out of me it wasn't planted there.

They monitored bub and had a shufty inside and came to the conclusion that it was due to scratching, i was mortified when he said "yes i can see scratch marks there and some broken blood vessels, i kind of felt a bit dirty and very embarrassed when he said that, he recommended i take an antihisthamine at night, its obvious fromthe rest of my skin that i scratch through the night so i guess i should take one.

He said the cervix is as it should be, no dilation or thinning as yet,no leaking of fluid or anything else unusual in there so i am very relieved. I still feel uncomfy down there, a bit raw and a bit of pressure when bub moves and some brownish blood but i guess its just as a resuilt of the exam and by tomorrow things will be fine.

I still have to wonder though where the hell this bit chunk of "thing" came from!!!