losy my plug at 32 weeks - does it matter?

[fernie3]

well i have been having thicker discharge the last few days. last night i went to the toiler and when I wiped there was a very long stringy yellow things that came out. I ignored it and went to bed.

got up this morning everything fine, but about lunch time I went to the toilet and when i pulled my knickers down there was this HUGE glob of yellow/creamy stuff in there - it filled the middle of my knickers and just was sitting there!. I was very very sticky very thick but NO blood etc. I was about the size of ping pong ball (if you rolled it up! - it was all stretched out flat).

I have read that the plug regenrates so if it is this then this isnt a problem right? I have no other changes at all to report.

I have never actually seen my plug before and have not had anything like this is either of my first two pregnancies. I had increased discharge but nothing like this!.

sophie

Hmm my plug was thick and brown/cream/bit bloody. Are you sure it is your plug and not just an accumulation of thick discharge?

I get green/yellow snot like discharge all the time (am 16 weeks) and did with last pg.

Lovely eh?

fernie, I'm 24 weeks and have been having this also. Had it for a couple of days, two big blobs though.

I also have never seen my plug in other 2 pgs so wasn't sure if it was that or not.

Could it be thrush? I had a huge plug of goo in my third pregnancy and that's what it was.

hi I did think i might be some kind of infection but it was nothing like i have ever seen before so made me think it was the plug. do you think i need to get tested for an infection or something? or just wait and see if it happens again?

sophie

Fernie - I would give your MW a quick call, have you any other symptoms - i.e. itchy, smelly etc?

i dont have any other symptoms at all today , yesterday I was having alot of BH but they settled down in the night. I left a message for my midwife now - whether or not she will call back is anyones guess!

sophie

Hmm, not convinced it is your plug - think it is possibly just a load of gloop. Ain't pg glam. Hope MW calls back and puts your mind at rest

x

Don't mean to scare you but ... my friend had her show at around this time. The hospital kept her in for observation for a few days, but then discharged her. A week after the show had appeared she went into labour and her baby was born 7 weeks early.

Yours may well not be anything like this, but I reckon it's important you get it checked out to be on the safe side.

I lost my plug and was 3cm dialated at 33 weeks and went in to be checked they sent me home after checking all was okay and I finally had DD at 40+5