odd silver ball falling out of me prior to childbirth!

[Mishee]

No one has been able to tell me what happened here - I'd been having contractions for hours but only had a 'dimple'. Then I had a huge contraction and thought I'd messed myself, but when I eventually looked down a round silver/grey ball of liquid was laying between my legs! I called the midwife, who called the doc. Midewife said to the doc she'd never seen anything like it before! The doc said she had & whisked it away. She then measured me & I'd gone from 0-8cm in approx 10 minutes! DD was born very soon after with no tears (as in rips, not boo hoo), as if the 'ball' stretched everything in preparation. Has anyone heard of this before, but moreover, does anyone know what the silver ball was? (I know it sounds a bit Dr Who & alien like, but it's true!).

Have just Google Imaged mucus plugs (there must be more to life than this!) and there isn't anything useful there - most of the pics are of pregnant women. The thing is, it was the size roughly of a hand wrapped round fist. Could that still be the plug?

Yes it could be Mishee

THHIS HAPPENED TO ME

i am not kidding

whislt i was pushing out dd2 a ball of fluid came out - it was so WARM and i thought i had given birth for a millisecond

dh said "omg a big shiny bogey" (helpful ) the mw said it was the amniotic sac and all the fluid, compeltely intact

it was so smooth and shiny

i panicked for a second imagining my baby still inside me without a sac but i had more contractions so soon i didnt have time to think any more about it and dd2 was swiftly born

That is the alternative - that it was the bag of fluid bulging out first, but it would have broken as the baby delivered unless the baby was born in the sack completely.

it must have been broken mears - for obvious reasons (!) but it was like an unbroken ball -round and shiny (or maybe it was the drugs?)

but dh describes it the same

I second ExtraFancy's Idea of the mucus plug!

wow how fascinating! I too am intrigued

i'm pretty sure it sounds like your bag of waters. waters usually break just before birth but strong ones can balloon out. i have seen it.
the health professionals dont usually see this as waters are often broken artificially.

Oh I think I get it - a bit of the waters in the sac pushed out first and maybe twisted to form a ball. DD was born v quickly afterwards because they said I went from
0-8cm in about 10 minutes and I had to quickly call back DH who had just been sent home. It sounds a bit like the balloon man at children's parties who takes one long balloon and then twists it and seals off sections. A shiney bogey indeed!!!!!

What I have seen in the past is a bag of membranes bulging out of the vagina and the whole thing tear off, rather than break. You are then left with a shiny clump (?ball) of membranes lying there before the baby comes. Sounds the most likely explanation.