The cork goes away when the birth is not far off

Many women who are pregnant do not know in detail about the changes that will occur in their body.

Mucus will save from infections

But everyone will necessarily hear about the departuretraffic jams before birth, because for some reason this process is considered a sign of the burgeoning labor activity. And, of course, he will definitely ask his gynecologist at the reception: "If the cork goes away, when the delivery occurs?"

The doctor will tell the pregnant woman what the cork is calledformation of thick mucus that "locks" the cervical channel of a woman to protect the baby from all sorts of infections. Before childbirth, it becomes unnecessary and self-destructed to free the path of the baby, in addition, the cervix gradually shortens. Therefore, the departure of the cork is considered one of the precursors of childbirth, but it can not predict the exact time of their birth. As, in fact, none of the precursors - they only indicate that it's not so long to wait.

A month before the birth?

But most mothers who wear tummypractically for 9 months, continue to be persistently interested in: "If the mucous plug is gone, when the delivery will begin?" Simply in this position for the woman, the certainty that she is trying to discover, based on different kinds of signs, is important.

Doctors explain: "If traffic jams, when delivery begins, it's difficult to say." However, it is clear only that the appearance of the baby in the world will exactly happen in the next 3-4 weeks. But again, it is not a fact that it will be so. The fact is that not everyone knows about the following fact: the mucous plug can depart from all women in different ways.

Someone will have it in parts withina few weeks, so that the future mother will not even notice how she left. Someone unexpectedly finds a large clot of mucus on his underwear - the cork has moved away. "How many births will happen?" - this question does not even have time to break from the lips of a pregnant woman. Because in a very short period of time, contractions can follow.

It happens that a woman does not have to think aboutthat means the fact that she is losing her cork. When the childbirth is in full swing, it will go away, only it will go unnoticed - at this time the mother will be busy with the other. However, most often the plug leaves about a week before delivery.

"House" without a "door"

If you are too early to stop the plug, whenbirth should not begin yet, but there is no threat to the baby, be especially careful. In fact now the child can catch any infection as its "small house" remained without "a door". Therefore, gynecologists advise in such cases future mothers to refrain from sexual contacts and visits to swimming pools and public baths.

It is important that the plug does not contain blood (it isNot about streaks, which are considered the norm). Also in the norm after its withdrawal there should be no reddish discharge. The color of the mucous plug itself can be different - from brown to pink. As a rule, doctors pay very little attention to it, we can say that they do not take into account at all. Their main task at this stage is to track the color of the amniotic fluid.