How soon after the "bloody show"...

bjackson0524

Hey Ladies, FTM here, hubby and I were really hoping for baby to come as close to her DD as possible and need to know about how soon did you go into labor after the "bloody show"? I'm 36 weeks, 4 days! :-/ [-O<

aander6

Did you have yor bloody show? It could mean labor is on it's way it could mean you have two weeks.

HappyCianci

Bloody show usually means labor is a couple of days away. It's not the same thing as the infamous "mucus plug," which is clear and is much less indicative of coming labor. I learned this first by googling, but my midwife confirmed it for me yesterday. 

I had my first baby about 36 hours after having bloody show. Another mom here just had her baby this week a couple of days after bloody show as well.

I completely understand why you're nervous. I hope baby hangs out inside for a few more days at least! 

aander6

HappyCianci said:

Bloody show usually means labor is a couple of days away. It's not the same thing as the infamous "mucus plug," which is clear and is much less indicative of coming labor. I learned this first by googling, but my midwife confirmed it for me yesterday. 

I had my first baby about 36 hours after having bloody show. Another mom here just had her baby this week a couple of days after bloody show as well.

I completely understand why you're nervous. I hope baby hangs out inside for a few more days at least! 

Ahh well I guess you learn something new everyday. For some reason I thought this was the same as losing your mucus plug.

HappyCianci

aander6 said:

Bloody show usually means labor is a couple of days away. It's not the same thing as the infamous "mucus plug," which is clear and is much less indicative of coming labor. I learned this first by googling, but my midwife confirmed it for me yesterday. 

I had my first baby about 36 hours after having bloody show. Another mom here just had her baby this week a couple of days after bloody show as well.

I completely understand why you're nervous. I hope baby hangs out inside for a few more days at least! 

Ahh well I guess you learn something new everyday. For some reason I thought this was the same as losing your mucus plug.

It's a related process (cervix changing/thinning out), and a lot of people use the two interchangeably. But bloody show is the real deal.

bjackson0524

I have been trying to pay attention to see when I lose my mucous plug, but I haven't seen anything like that yet. I have an appointment at my birthing center tomorrow, and called my midwife a few minutes ago. She didn't seem alarmed, but she told me that my baby was around 5 lbs at my last appointment and that's fairly small. We're praying for a full term baby, and would hope she wants to stay in at least until 38 weeks..thank you for your quick replies!! [-O<

BeanNut

I had some bloody show yesterday afternoon but haven't had baby yet.  Not sure what to expect but I'll post if I do go into labor!  I never had this particular (gross) symptom with my others.

savicke2009

I had some bloody mucus with number two on Oct 29th, he was born November 7th so more than a week after the nastiness

dana2die4

I had DS 17 hours after I had my "bloody show".