Curiosity got the best of me yesterday at my midwife appointment (at 39 weeks 4 days) and I agreed to an internal exam even though I know it means nothing as to when labor can begin. It was around 3:00 PM and I learned I was 1+ cm, 50% effaced, and at -1 station. I had a bit of spotting--pink at fir...

33w1d, 3rd child, measuring larger, bloody show - labour coming soon? hospital no bloody help whatsoever! Well last night had a lot of cramping and bloody mucous discharge and not so much the urge to push as my body just bloody well doing it anyway - that lasted for about half an hour then tapered o...

I've been having contractions since yesterday morning and decided a little while ago that a warm bath sounded amazing.  I've been getting bits of my mucous plug on the toilet paper when I wipe and when I stood up after my bath, PLOP, a larger piece fell out!  Not the whole thing, but a def...

hi ladies!Ive got a few silly questions and Im starting to feel badly about bombarding my due date community with all of them, so Im hoping some of you here can help me out :) I'll be 40 weeks on Sunday. My doc told me yesterday that I will probably go in to labor within a week, that everything is m...

I went the beach on Saturday.  So here's the story of Lilia's Birth.   If it's too long I won't be offended if you want to skip to the end to see Lilia.  On Saturday I started to lose my mucus plug and continued to lose it until Sunday and Sunday night it got where it was pink an...

So after all that pain and discomfort and cramping I had early Friday morning, I did end up losing my mucus plug, (How long after you lost your mucus plug did your labor start?) and I found out from the midwife that day that apparently my baby had finally dropped.   So no labor, but at lea...

 I dont know if anyone has ever experienced this, but in the last week or so, I have noticed that i JUST. DONT. HEAL. I got a couple scratches and bumps and bruises (cause Im clumsy as hell at this point) in the last couple weeks and they are super red, inflamed, sore, and look like they J...

Sorry to post again, but this question is unrelated to the last one. So, at my 37 week appointment I was only a fingertip dialated. After that appointment I had a bit of brown spotting. At my 38 week appointment (wednesday) I was 1cm and got my membranes swept, only a couple of dots of spotting. Thu...

Another mucus plug question, only because I've never been sure if I'm losing it.  But all day today and yesterday I've had thick white/cream colored discharge with the consistency of thick snot. And it's stringy like melted cheese...lol...sorry only way to explain it. I don't see it in the toil...

For those of you who ready my post yesterday about possible early/latent labor...today it is continuing. I didn't really notice it while I was sleeping, but it's really getting me now that I'm awake. I know these are coming every 3-5 mins, and a lot more uncomfortable than yesterday's. My stomach fe...