Women whose gestation period is already coming to an end (especially primiparous) often panics, worrying about the fact that labor can begin any minute.
Departure of the mucous plug is one of those moments that causes anxiety in many pregnant women. Noticing that they have lost cork, they immediately begin to suffer the question of when, at last, the birth will begin. Some even hastily collect things and call an ambulance to go to the hospital. This behavior can not be called correct.
Let's try to spread out everything, as the saying goes "on the shelves," to understand how to behave if the mucous plug goes away when waiting for the onset of labor.
An exit of a stopper before sorts: how and when?
From the moment the pregnancy begins, the cervical mucus produced by cervical cells during each ovulation cervical mucus thickens and forms a tight clot that is necessary to close the cervix for a period until the child leaves the mother's womb to protect the fetus from all sorts of infections.
Shortly before the birth process begins, the output for the baby should open, that is, the mucous plug must leave the cervix. The departed cork looks like a lump of mucus of a transparent or whitish-yellowish (beige, pinkish) color, sometimes with blood veins of blood.
If before the birth cork has departed, then a woman can feel that something has come out of the vagina. It's not always possible to notice how the cork came out. After all, it can happen during a morning toilet or shower. In this case, a woman can remain in a "happy" ignorance and not worry herself with the constant question, when will she give birth?
Unequivocally answer the question of when a woman will give birth, if the cork has departed, it is impossible. Someone's birth begins a few hours after the cork has left, and some wait for a few more days or weeks. But in any case, the departure of the mucous plug before delivery indicates the beginning of the body's preparation for the forthcoming process of the birth of a new person.
To foresee, after what time the birth will begin, after the cork goes away, it's impossible.
In the women preparing for the second and subsequent childbirth, the period between the exit of the cork and the birth is usually very small. And sometimes the mucous plug can generally go away with the amniotic fluid , then the question of when to give birth after the cork has come out is not worth it at all. You need to give birth now.
Cork: how to behave?
If the cork has started to depart, then there is still no reason for panic. Nature itself will decide when to give birth to a woman.
Many women who do not have enough patience to wait for the natural onset of the birth process, are trying to accelerate childbirth after the cork has gone off, resorting to active sex. But even if a woman is confident in her partner's health, you need to use a condom.
When the cork comes out, the woman should not worry that the child is not protected by anything; in a fetal bladder, until the water is gone and the woman does not start giving birth,
Pregnant woman after the withdrawal of the cork should calm down and lead her habitual way of life. But you need to monitor your hygiene more carefully. Now it is better to refuse from taking a bath - the soul will suffice.
We need to prepare in advance the documents and things necessary for staying in the hospital.
By itself, the departure of the cork is not the beginning of the birth. Therefore, it is necessary to gather in the maternity ward only when such signs of the onset of labor, such as the passage of water and regular fights, appear.