How is the departure of the cork and the process of childbirth related?
When the time for the appearance of the baby is near, it is very important to know how much the mucous plug leaves before delivery. It is a small clot of viscous mucous substance of different shades - from white to brown, pink, yellow and even greenish, located in the cervix and allowing to exclude penetration into the body of a pregnant woman of various infections. Do not notice his departure is impossible, since the tube is often present and blood veins.
If you are interested, for how many days before the birth of the plug, you should know the following:
- Doctors point out that this process should normally take place not earlier than two weeks before the deadline, that is, at 38 weeks and later. If your term is 37 weeks or less and you notice similar allocations, urgently consult a gynecologist to exclude the risk of a premature baby.
- If you begin to move away from the cork, it is definitely impossible to tell through the number of births.
Generic activity you can diagnose after a few hours, days or even a couple of weeks later. If you do not have pronounced contractions, severe pains or bright scarlet bleeding, you can show your doctor. After the examination, he will determine whether you should stay at home or better go to the hospital in the prenatal department. - When the cork goes away during the second and subsequent pregnancy, the doctor will say more precisely, after how many labor will begin. Often this happens only after a few hours, since the cervix of the uterus is not closed so close in the recurrent . Therefore, you should be on the alert and soon expect other precursors of the birth of a baby.