What does the mucus plug look like?

[whenhenshaveteeth]

I'm 39wks with DC2 and the last couple of weeks I've have quite a bit of clear/white discharge and didn't think of it as anything until this morning I lots a much bigger blob of it, which got me wondering. Is the MP always blood tinged or can it be clear/white?

I know it's my second but I was induced with the first and so never lost the plug, or at least didn't see it.

Mine was clear and thick, looked like the jelly you get in a pork pie

I never had a bloody show, I think they are two different things.

Hi, I'm 39+3 today and had what I can only describe as "snotty discharge" which I think is part of mucus plug. Hope so anyway!

Ok, I know it's gross but I looked up pics of mucus plug on the internet and it sort of looked like what I lost but for some reason I thought it would be a lot bigger. It looked a bit like the kind of stuff you get around the time you ovulate.

I've had both. Lost my plug a few weeks ago, it was a big lump of greeny/yellowy jelly. Not like discharge, more like snot. Gross!

I also had a bloody show about a week ago, this was similar consistency but was very bloody (mine was very bloody as I have cervical erosion and mw said that the show had burst a few capillaries so not totally normal)

Since then I've had lots of fairly big chunks of snotty, clearish mucus. I'm due today btw

Argh! Just did a Google image search for "mucous plug". I CAN NEVER UNSEE THAT!!!

I know what you mean Badgerina...

Thanks sparkle, let's see how it goes. About to jump in a bath of clary sage and jasmine, so who knows...

A big green snot. Twas gross!

I think the plug can go gradually over the last few weeks; I'm 38+1 and for the past few weeks I've been having (on and off) yellowy mucous, more of it if I've been feeling crampy in the night.

The 'bloody show' (when it's pink or blood-streaked) happens when the cervix starts dilating properly and small capillaries burst, I think, so it's more of a sign that things will be happening soon.

With my last pregnancy, I had a very bloody show... Like a massive lump of jelly.

I've been waiting for the same to happen with this one (38+6) but I have the increased discharge describe above so a bit more that I might actually be getting there!!

Thanks for sharing too much!!

A fist sized lump of blood stained snot, IME.

I googled - my eyes!

Sorry op, I have nothing helpful to say, I'm just v childish

I hope you have a pain free as possible birth

It probably varies, but I had a 20p sized blob of mucus on the floor of the shower at about 40+4. I thought 'Oh cool - it's a show perhaps.'

The evening of 40+5 I got a huge, alien-like lump of mucus, with blood in it, on the loo-paper when I wiped myself. It was massive! I thought then 'Oh no; that's the show.' Next day went into labour.

Sparklyboots comes closest. It wasn't as thick as a fist, but yes, about that size on the paper.

I would have photographed it for this occasion too... but I didn't have my camera on me. I do have a pic of some of my 'ragged membranes' after they came out in the lochia though. Gross...

Varies.

I had something that looked like a jellyfish (when floating on water). Thick firm clear ball of jelly with a small few streaks of blood. But you can also leak some snotty stuff.

The mucus plug can be released for a few weeks before birth, and it can be partially released and hen build back up again.

Nothing constructive to add but your reactions have tickled me! .... off to Google knowing 'I can never unsee it....!'

Oh but it was discussed at nct from our brainstormed first timer questions 'what is a mucus plug?' And she said it constantly renews itself and you may never actually see it or you might see it a few times in bits or all at once....

Eeeeuuwwww

All the best op! X

Why did I google it when so many of you had warned us?! The pic on google images than looks like an upended jar of Christmas mincemeat has scarred me the most.

I'm early days in my pg, and read this and started laughing, and then dry heaving. So, so gross.

Haha! This thread is funny

So, in conclusion I don't think what I found in my knickers was my show but I promise to take a pic when I do have it so that you can all see it

Thanks when you're too kind

off to bleach eyes after googling