Where is the mucus plug located
MUCOUS PLUG: When the does the mucus plug come out? What is a mucous plug for?
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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 a Faceman 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
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