When Did You Lose Your Show / Mucus Plug?

This poll is to see when BellyBelly members lost their mucus plug. All votes are anonymous so please feel free to vote!

See BellyBelly's article for more information about losing the mucus plug.

I need mulitple votes lol

Kameron - after being induced and well into labour, but before waters were broken

Lachlan - 37wks 6 days after an internal. Started that night and got really bloody next morning. Spoke to midwife who said it sounded like the show, but if it continued to go in. It didn't continue and I was induced 3 days later.

Love :smt049

Mine started the day before I went into labour with Nicholas.

Kazz & co \:D/
Nicholas 26/10/02

Mine was the morning I went into labour........from that moment on I knew things were happening.........gave birth about 12 hours later!

I didn't see my show until straight after my waters were broken, well into labour. Ob was trying to hurry things along as it was a long labour.

Thanks for this poll!! I was wondering if I hadnt had a show yet that I wouldnt go into labour this weekend, but it seems as though it should be fine then!! There is hope for an EDD labour day yet!! hehehe

Thanks.. also does it just look like a period? (Sorry if tmi but i dont know!!)

Pee,

Sometimes the show / mucous plug can be blood-stained but to be honest, to me it more looks like a huuuge lot of semen LMAO... some women actually get confused with it if they have sex late in pregnancy.

So I need to look for funky coloured lumps of semen!! LOL
I will keep my eye out then... ;)

There is none of that happening atm due to pelvic and hip pain so I am pretty sure I will notice! Thanks for the info Kelly!!

(BTW I like all the new avatars!! The ladies are keeping you busy with all these changes arent they!!)

ok...for me it was on my due date which wss 14 days before induction... and as we were trying to hurry along labour naturally... I wasn't sure if it was or not, but mine was bloody and mucousy (TMI) for around 12 hours.

Show?... what show??? I'm guessing it probably came out when my waters broke and gushed onto the floor...

mine came 2 days before i had josh, and as soon as it came was when i slowly started to dilate, mine looked like a massive amount of seamen come to think of it, but with a few blood streaks in it aswell


Lesley

Excuse me for being so uninformed - but what is 'the show'?


KeenAs

KeenAs........the "show" is when the mucus plug that prevents infectiosn getting into the cervix that is plugging theneck of hte cervix comes away through the vagina late in pregnancy: usually around when labour starts/when your waters break............

This is gross, but mine looked like a cross between a bloody stringy glob of snot, and semen........revolting.......sorry if TMI :-# but because it was so yuk I knew straight away what it was.............

Oh, okay - thanks :oops:


KeenAs

I lost mine during labour and I'm with Lucy on how it looked LOL. It was a big snotty/semeny type thing that was bloody/mucusy....ewww!! There was a bit of it too.....

Uuuuggghhhh, that is so gross, but so true! The memories just came flooding back!

I forgot to write in here that mine looked like lots and lots of semen!! hehehe there was no hint of blood colours though! Just that familiar yellow/white colour!! 8-[

I lost mine this morning! am hoping things are gonna get moving maybe tonight or in the next few days!!

there was heaps it was very similar to what semen looks like ( no smell or blood ) just the yellowy/white colour like Pee mentioned above had to wipe three times before there was no more on the toilet paper ( sorry for too much info but it happened after i went to the toilet for a wee i felt wet and went and checked things out when i wiped there was my show )

\:D/

I had mine at 37 weeks and then again at 39 weeks(dunno why i had two 8-[ )and now i'm 1 day overdue! Not much of a sign that labor is coming if you ask me! Mine was like a huge blob of mucus with a hint of blood in it(both times)...Very gross!

I felt funny at some ridiculous time of the morning and stood to go to the loo and "plop" my show fell out on the floor on the way to the loo. That was 1 hour before my first pang of labour pain. My baby was born 10 hours later! Yep - I agree - looks like a big goober!

With Mason the show came out when I sat on the loo. I just kept dripping. I thought it might have been the waters as they said at the pre natal class that it can leak slowly sometimes. He was born 9 1/2 hours later.

With Angus I didn't see the show until I was in very active labour in the bath. I saw blood floating in a blob in the water. The midwife said oh thats a little show. Then the waters exploded and I had to get out of the bath and in two pushed Angus was out!
I was told to wait for the show before coming in to the hospital but if I did then Angus would have been born in the driveway!

I agree with everyone elses discriptions of it.
I got mine about 10 hours before i had son.

I had mine when about 4 hrs after labour started. It was ewwwwwy definitely goober looking but hard at the same time LOL!

*hugs*
Cailin

God u guys crack me up!!!!!! my show just looked like the end of your period, the dark browny color, but i had mine 4 2weeks prior. Sorry if that didnt help. Good luck and im thinking of you angel.xx [-o< for all to go well.xx

I'e waited until I had had jacob before answering this one. So out of 5 pregnancies I have not once had a show - not sure if I should be happy about this or not LOL.

My show started about 8 days after my due date, and continued for the 3 days before I was induced. It was a bit like the end of my period, but every so often had a couple of big snotty globs in it.
Yum.....
Fi

Moving to Poll Archive :)

I didn't with Nyah, as everything was so quick, I went into hospital at 35weeks and 5 days and 7cms dialated, and didn't know I was in labor!

William on the other hand AAARRRGGGHHH I had a show one week before hand and was in pre-labor for 2 weeks. #-o

I reckon this was the most gross part of the whole experience (that and getting the catheter inserted... 8-[ ).
I saw a bit of show after 2 doses of prostin gel to induce labour then, after a 3rd dose of gel, I saw what looked like a big goober of snot on the tp. Ewww! It smelled hideous too and it made me gag. Urrgh! Still, I was happy to see it because it meant that the gel was doing more than just putting me under excrutiating pain!

mine was the morning labour started.blood tinged and almost looked like a miscairaige.hope i didnt ofend.
nikki

Mine was 10.3o Christmas night 2001 Labour began straight away and my son was born 12.14pm Boxing day.
It's appaearance was like a thick, mucous-like plug about 3cm long. I had never seen one before but knew what it was immediately.

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Vanessa + Rohan ( My Shining star) 3 1/2

hmmm 39 weeks with my first who was born at 41 weeks. 38 weeks with no.2 who was also a 41 weeker. 35 weeks with no. 3 who was 39 weeks born and.... 26 weeks with no. 4 who was born at 38 weeks.

I had 2 shows. the first was about 5 days before my waters broke. It was like a giant lump of snot. The second was the night before I went into labour and it was clear mucus on the loo paper with little flecks of bright red blood in it.

*bumping thread*

With Declan I had my show about 5 hours before I gave birth to him.

Hi,

With my DD Ruqayah i had my show 1 week before going into labour,i was at my antenatal appointment and i noticed it after a trip to the loo.It was a few streeks of mucousy red blood.yuck.

i'm intrigued...i never got that far as my dd came premmie at 34 weeks. What's the most common - 1-2 days prior labour???

Hi,

iluvella i dont think there is a common!!! lol,everyone seems gets it at very diffirent times.

i could be wrong though

I went into labour on the Sunday night, then started to lose the show on Monday morning (which was quite exciting as I knew it was really happening then!). Had Lucy Tuesday night.