Waiting for the Show to Start

Towards the end, it’s a constant lookout for the “bloody show”. It’s this mix of blood and snot that shows up when labor is imminent because your cervix is dilating. So now every time you go to the bathroom you will find yourself analyzing the toilet bowl and the toilet paper to see if the slime has any red. If you find red, you try to see how much, what color, and whether it looks like the Google images of “bloody show”.  You get a bit giddy when you see anything different, only to have the letdown when you see online that it is normal and does not mean you are close to labor. By the time you are looking for the bloody show, you feel like your pregnancy will never end and you are hormonal, so the letdown is quite possibly going to lead to a meltdown. Why isn’t my body doing this correctly? Why does my kid not want to meet me?

You know what else can make your naturally increased secretions have tinges of blood? Sex. Chances are by the time you are looking for the show, you are taking your doctors advice to get that cervix softening by way of the prostaglandins in your man's ejaculate. Your cervix is super sensitive right now though, so any heavy banging on its gates can cause broken capillaries and some bleeding.