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FTM ? about mucous plug

Irishmomma84Irishmomma84 member
in September 2011 Moms

I have been seeing alot of posts about this subject and have a few FTM questions:

1) Is the mucous plug always bloody looking? Or can it just be tinged with blood?

2) Do you have to lose the MP before any dialation can begin?

3) Does it always look like a glob of mucous? Or does it actually look alot like a jellyfish?

I know the last question may be silly, but this is what I was always told it looked like. I have Google'd pics of mucous plugs and all the pics showed was a big glob of bloody mucous. I haven't lost mine (that I know of) but have had bouts of thick, sticky and globby mucous on my liners or when I wipe, but nothing that resembled the pics that I have seen.

Thanks in advance ladies!

-Michelle

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Re: FTM ? about mucous plug

  • justrachetjustrachet member

    1) Mine was streaked with blood, but mostly the normal mucus color.

    2) I was about 1 cm when I lost it with DS1. I haven't lost it this time around, and I was at 2 cm last Tuesday. I don't think you have to lose it to dilate, but I think that if you lose it, it's a sign of dilation? I don't know for sure.

    3) It didn't look like a jellyfish to me. :) 

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  • hoot179hoot179 member
    I haven't lost mine yet, but last time I was checked I was about 1cm dilated.  So I guess you can dilate before losing your plug!  
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  • mabma80mabma80

    For me.....

    1. It never had any blood on it, with any of my pregnancies.

    2. I had an appt. last week and found that I was 2cm dilated.  Yesterday, I lost some/all of my MP.  Same thing happened with my other two preg.

    3. It does look like a big glob of snot, but thicker. 

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  • RobotsandRosesRobotsandRoses member
    I was wondering if I had lost some of mine, because I haven't had much discharge at all and had a big glob of mucous yesterday but absolutely no blood. So I figured it wasn't the plug.It was pretty clear or white and reminded me of snot and was rather milky and sticky.Maybe it was part of the plug afterall.
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  • babyAutumnbabyAutumn member
    With DD I lost my mucous plug in hospital when I was about 4cm dilated so I didn't really get a good look.  With DS it kind of looked like strawberry jelly (though that sounds really weird).  He was born three days later.  I haven't seen anything yet with this one so we'll see.  Seems to be different every time.  I would think that it should be tinged with some sort of blood given that you are dilating and capillaries break in the process which causes some bleeding.
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  • Irishmomma84Irishmomma84 member

    Thanks ladies....I have been seeing chunks of mucous after going pee, but only sometimes. DF and I haven't been real "active" (bc of his damn 2nd job!) I now know that not everyone looses it in the same way, nor does it look the same, which I kinda figuered. Not sure if I'm just seeing chunks of MP or just chunks of mucous that happened to come out. Either way, I'm not too worked up about it bc this has been happening for weeks (maybe even months) now.

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