What does cervical mucus discharge mean?

After the cervical mucus flows out, this condition of the body is generally a sign of impending delivery, and you need to go to the hospital in time to prepare for delivery. However, women who are giving birth for the first time may feel fear due to lack of experience. However, after the cervical mucus flows out, you need to take it seriously. At this time, you usually need to pay close attention to changes in your body and maintain a good attitude.

What does cervical mucus discharge mean?

The outflow of cervical mucus plug means that the woman's cervix has shortened and flattened, which also means that the cervix has matured. So it means that it is a sign of threatened labor, and formal labor is about to occur. Generally, about 24 to 48 hours after the cervical mucus plug flows out, regular uterine contractions will occur, causing the cervix to open. With the stimulation of regular uterine contractions, the fetus can be delivered. If the woman is a multiparous woman, cervical mucus plug will usually flow out and labor may occur sooner.

Precautions after cervical mucus plug discharge

Labor pains

1. Reasons:

Labor pains are the contractions of the uterus that a pregnant woman will experience before giving birth. If you can feel the uterus contracting and expanding regularly more than six times a day, it means that labor pains have begun.

2. Reminder:

Labor pains can be divided into false pains and true pains. False pain starts to occur 3 to 4 weeks before delivery, without regularity, because walking will improve the pain. The pain is limited to the lower abdomen and groin, rarely extends to around the back, and the cervix has not yet dilated. True pain occurs at the beginning of delivery, with regularity and intense pain that cannot be improved by walking. The pain is in the abdomen, back, and coccyx, and there is a strong urge to defecate. The cervix gradually dilates due to the contraction of the uterus.

Seeing red

1. Reasons:

Because the mucus plug at the cervical opening falls off and the capillaries rupture, a small amount of pink or red, viscous secretion mixed with a small amount of blood, mucous leucorrhea appears.

2. Reminder:

It usually appears about 1 to 2 days before delivery.

Water breaking

1. Reasons:

The rupture of the membrane that wraps the fetus allows the amniotic fluid to flow out, which is called rupture of membranes. It is slightly sticky, colorless and similar to urine.

2. Reminder:

Generally, labor pains come first and then water breaks. If water breaks, try to lie flat and go to the hospital as soon as possible to give birth.