for anyone who has used crinone gel how did you know when you lost your mucous plug.

BabyLaninger

I'm on the crinone gel applicators because I had bleeding before 20 weeks and then at my ultrasound at 20 weeks was told I had a short cervix and that it was thinning out. I've gone to the doctor every week since and they found it kept getting shorter so had me get the steroid injections at 25 weeks. At 29 weeks I had a scare with cramping and was starting to dilate so they said I could be going into labor but I stayed in the hospital hooked up to some fluids (magnesium I believe it was) and that helped significantly and stopped the contractions. I'm now 34 weeks pregnant and have been on bed rest. But I'm wondering because the crinone gel that I've been on since 20 weeks usually doesn't just come out, but the last two days it had just been sort of flooding out when I go to the bathroom. (I tried not to give tmi and make it sound gross) but Im wondering if this sudden change could be from losing my mucous plug. With all the crinone gel that is in there it's hard to tell if there's anything else too. It looks to have a weird texture to it and there's very very slight blood that can be seen but I can't tell. Its just strange so I am wondering for anyone else who had been on the crinone gel before if you could tell you had lost it and how you knew?