Mucous Plug Question...

[MandyB]

Well this is my THIRD pregnancy, so you would think I should know the answer to my OWN question, but somehow I don't!

Is the mucous plug always blood tinged in color, or can it be more of just a snotty color? SOrry if this is TMI! I think I may be gradually losing my mucous plug, but am not sure since it's not really blood tinged in color this time. Maybe I'm just being overly hopeful!

[Prensa]

I did not have any blood and did have some pretty stringy "snotty" colored stuff for a few days

last time I think I remember a tiny bit of bloody streaks


I think there are many variations of normal, some people never see their plug!

[fw221]

Mine came out in big chunks last time & it wasn't blood tinged at all. Haven't seen it this time yet, but I haven't been checking either.

[SleepyMamaBear]

i was loosing plug for weeks with Addy and had no blood in it ever.
i just started to loose a lil bit with every BM, and yep. looks like snot. no blood.
i figure when i see the bloody show, THATS when i know its all coming out.

[luckydog]

So much variation!

I lost it mid-labor with DD2 and in very very early labor with DD3. (I never saw it with DD1 - induced, only dilated to 3 cm and then c/s.)

In both cases it was a ton, ton, ton of never ending super strong/tacky blood-tinged mucus. There was no mistaking it for something else.

[manitobamama]

This make me giggle as dh keeps saying refering to the mucous plug as the first sign of labor. Gently I have tried to tell him that labor could start without seeing the mucous plug. I think this is something that he retained from hospital prenatals with his ex. Yesterday and today there was a little bit of mucous and when I told him just now I think his bp shot up! But I am maintaining babe can come any time it feels ready!

[ahdoula]

The plug by itself has no blood in it, BUT if you are dialating and effacing (enough) while looseing some of your plug, then there can be blood in it.