We are here ready to spend the big wheel at Birth and see what we'll talk about today . let's do it
okay today we are number seven which is can you see it mucus plug okay mucus flooding we're diving
into something exciting this Monday morning the mucus plug okay let's let's set up the scene a
little bit we have a baby in an amniotic sac okay and that lives inside of the uterus the uterus is
a big muscle at the bottom of the uterus is what we call the cervix so the cervix is nice and
closed and tight keeping the baby safe in there is really the role of the cervix and what is if
we can think of this is the cervix right uterus is here what lives right here is a mucus plug
what does that mean plug so it's almost like a cork at the bottom at the wine cork so it's
keeping the role of the mucus plug is to keep bacteria out of the the uterus and so what it
is is really like what it sounds just a big blob of mucus and it's right there on the other side
of the uterus I mean the other side of the cervix is the mucus plug okay so why do we talk about the
mucus plug anyway well when your cervix starts to thin be faith so we talked about effacement
in an earlier video I've got a link right here a face or dilate open the mucus plug that is sitting
there right on top can come out so that can be a sign that your body is gearing up for early
labor sometimes people see mucus plug come out days before labor starts some people see it when
labor starts and what it looks like is exactly what it sounds like a big blob of mucus though
sometimes it's not uncommon to see parts of it come not just all in one chunk but pieces of it
come out usually when people go to the bathroom and they wipe they notice the mucus plug if it
is coming out at that time so it can be a little alarming if you have no idea what it is it could
be kind of tinged with blood if the capillaries of your cervix have broken when as the cervix dilates
sometimes the mucous plug can have some bloody dots on it it might be brownish if the blood is
old sometimes people are kind of alarmed and they might take a picture and send it to their partner
or their doula I know as a doula I have received pictures of mucus plugs in my feet in my text
before if you are a doula and you've received one give me a thumbs up or leave me a comment
below so I knew that I'm not the only one so it's something that you don't have to wait for it to
say oh I'm an early labor but it certainly is a sign that that cervix is changing a little bit so
that the plug can come out of the cervix and you can see that something is going on so it can't be
kind of exciting to know that something's going on and again it can be kind of alarming if you're not
sure what it is or if you haven't learned about it so the mucus plug it's always an exciting topic to
cover in childbirth class because who doesn't want to talk about mucus okay so we have covered the
mucus plug today I hope that you have found this informative if you have please let me know I love
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