Mucusy Goodness

The mucus plug. UGH, it really IS a plug! Like a rubber bathtub plug but for your cervix and just as big. I never saw this with my first daughter and thank goodness for two more years of ignorance because my second pregnancy was a real eye opener. I was very excited because I had a bit of snot-like stuff come out about three weeks before my due date. Everything online said the baby should be coming in a week or so because that was my mucus plug! Yay for baby time. My last pregnancy went over my due date so I was ready to get the show on the road a little earlier this time around. So I waited….and got more snot.

 

A week later I got a full on production of the yellow slime machine. Let’s just say, if the jelly blob of a mucus plug is not big enough to fill up your entire palm, you either didn’t lose it all or you have man hands. It’s both fascinating and disgusting at the same time, so of course you can’t look away. Luckily I lost all of my plug(s) in the toilet or shower but I’ve heard of women having them “drop” into their underwear. I swear if that happened to me I would have thought I was in early labor with the Alien. Oh yes, and I still managed to go over my due date. Apparently this early arrival of the plug versus actual delivery time means that your plug will be trying to regenerate itself. So you constantly have slime coming out and it can be a variety of colors. Lovely. Go to Costco for panti-liners, it's going to be a party down there!