Just wondering, how long it was before you went into labor after the BS? With the information I have gotten, it seems like (with all things in pregnancy) there is huge variation from immediate labor to several days.
EDIT: I am looking for the mode rather than the mean or range.
You kinda answered your own question, you will never know until it happens to you. I never lost my MP with DS, but all this week mine has been shedding in pieces. My SIL started labor within 24 hours after losing hers..... If you google search you will find answers anywhere from that night to 2-3 weeks.
I lost mine over the course of a week around 36 weeks, no baby until my scheduled C at 39 weeks. It can regenerate. All the crunchy natural birth books I read say hours, from experience and on here it's weeks.
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I was in labor when I had my bloody show. I didn't have any contractions until my water broke. A couples of hours after being admitted to the hospital, I had my bs. So to answer your question--negative a couple hours
Oh and mine was indeed bloody. Like get up and change your gowns and sheets because it looked like I had just started my period. It was just "slightly tinged". But maybe that's because I was already in active labor at that point.
I am interested as well. My first time was within 24 hours of starting active labor at 40 weeks and 5 days. Last night, I experienced this blessed event that must not be talked about on this board, but I am only 38 weeks...
I think the "mucus plug" and the "bloody show" are the same thing. At least that's how it's been explained to me.
The day before I went into labor last time I had a lot of discharge... it looked like clear gel... not bloody at all. I went to L&D because I thought maybe I had a slow water leak and things were fine. The nurse said I'd have the baby in the next day or two and she was born the next day at 6:00 pm!
I never noticed a mucus plug/bloody show the first 2 times. Over the past few days I've been losing clear, snot-like discharge. No clue if that's the mucus plug or just normal discharge. No baby yet
Water broke at 1:15am, no prior contractions or anything. Wasn't even sure my water broke, thought I was leaking pee. Contractions started about 1:25am Bloody show started about 2:00am (went to bathroom and that's when BS was noticed and I realized my water broke). Lost MP at hospital around 3:30am DS born at 6:27pm
Re: STM-Time between your Bloody Show and Labor
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Contractions started about 1:25am
Bloody show started about 2:00am (went to bathroom and that's when BS was noticed and I realized my water broke).
Lost MP at hospital around 3:30am
DS born at 6:27pm