Who didn't lose their MP? I know I still have a lot of time to lose mine, but I'm just wondering how common it is NOT to lose it before active labor starts.
BTW I want to thank all of you ladies for being so helpful when I post questions on this board. Not all boards are as nice! I can't wait to join you in the next couple of weeks!
Nope, never happened for me. I also never got a bloody show or had my water break, but I did go into labor on my own so I guess none of it really matters. Your Halloween maternity pic is super cute by the way
I never saw anything that resembled a MP when I went into labor. I went to hospital in AM and the nurse checked me a few times causing some red/brown blood but no MP. Then I got sent home and came back a few hours later 5-6 cm and 100% effaced, she was born 5 hours after that. Never saw my MP.
I had nothing...no MP, no bloody show, nothing. I was out eating dinner and pigged out at the point that my contrax should have been 10 minutes apart...had no idea. I only realized I was in labor when I started feeling like I had rectal pains 3 minutes apart...and I was already 5 cm dilated at the point I got to the hospital 1/2 an hour after that.
I didn't lose mine either. My contractions started at 10:00 pm and I was fully dilated and ready to push by 2:00 am. The doctor had to break my water and my bloody show came around 2:00 am.
I never did. I noticed a little bloody/mucus (sp?) discharge during my induction once labor really started but nothing before. I was so jealous of other nesties posting that they lost theirs lol.
Re: MP question
at 41 weeks my water broke at 2 am, mucus plug came a few hours later.
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