Mucus plug or something else?

Sorry in advance for the tmi ladies. I had a c section 16 months ago. I'm 30 weeks and I have been cramping pretty often lately. Just now I had a thick clear mucusy discharge come out of my vag excuse my French lol. My ob just checked for a uti, and did that test to see if I was at risk for preterm labor. Could this be a sign something is brewing? Any advice would help.

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I am almost in the same boat as you, had a csection 18 months ago and I am 34 weeks pregnant and I think I started losing my plug on Thursday but I'm not sure because I never lost it with DS#1. It's just a mucousy discharge that is sometimes tinged brown but not bloody or nasty slug looking like in those google images. From doing a search on here, I'm pretty sure it is the beginning of losing the plug. I am seeing the midwife on Tuesday so I guess I'll find out for sure. It sounds like you may have the same thing as me? I asked about it on parenting yesterday and some ladies said that they lost it as early as 30 weeks and still made it to full term so I am guessing that you are ok. I know that I am scared to death that I will go into labor soon because it's starting to come out already but we'll see.

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For me the discharge changed throughout my pregnancies. Towards the end its now more (sorry for the TMI) ewcm than it was in the second trimester.
I sometimes think it's the mucous plug, which I remember losing over series of days with both m previous pregnancies, but midwife did an internal exam this past week and it seems "everything" is still intact - which brings me back to believing it's just hormonal shifts showing up in the form of discharge changes....hope this post makes sense.....

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I've been losing my plug over the pat few days and I just googled "mucous plug" to see what it might look like. It's a bit different for every women I think

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This is my first preg so I don't have experience with that yet but from what my OB told me to keep an eye out for is that he said it would def be a thicker consistency then your normal discharge. He said its almost a bit stringy if you were to put it between 2 fingers and stretch it apart. It would also, mostly likely, be tinged with a brown or reddish/pinkish color. Being that you're only 30 weeks, I would say to call your OB to be safe and get checked out. Good luck!

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Posted by Coosie

This is my first preg so I don't have experience with that yet but from what my OB told me to keep an eye out for is that he said it would def be a thicker consistency then your normal discharge. He said its almost a bit stringy if you were to put it between 2 fingers and stretch it apart. It would also, mostly likely, be tinged with a brown or reddish/pinkish color. Being that you're only 30 weeks, I would say to call your OB to be safe and get checked out. Good luck!

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Thank you ladies.

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Call your OB. I lost my plug at almost 32 weeks and was in pre-tern labor and didn't even know I was having contractions until I got to L&D to be checked out. Thankfully they were able to stop the contractions and I made it to 37 weeks on bed rest. GL!

Oh and it looked like a "glob" of snot (sorry) and was tinged with brown blood.