Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Posts: 3 Location: Santa Barbara county, ca USA
watery discharge and bloody show Posted: 02-03-08 23:14pm
Is it normal to have a lot of watery
discharge? I know your mucus plug is
suppose to be more slimy and more like,
well, mucus. However, my discharge has
been clear and water for the past few
weeks and enough for me to have to change
my underwear a lot in one day. I know I
am not peeing on myself because I smell it
and it doesn't smell like pee. Plus I can
feel it coming out of my vagina. I thought
I was leaking Amniotic fluid but the
doctor told me it wasn't. Then last night
I gushed again and this time it was brown
and I had cramps. I changed and a minute
or less later it came out again and it was
pink then again it was more bright until
finally I had blood clots in it. I went to
the hospital thinking I might be having a
baby and my water might have broke ( I am
39 weeks) and they sent me home saying it
wasn't my amniotic fluid. I am so
confused! The blood isn't period severe
but it's a lot more that I have been
reading about.
Has this happened to anyone else? Could my
doctors be wrong?
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Ingi
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Posted: 02-04-08 10:56am
Your doctor is testing the discharge to
see if it is amniotic fluid - so you can
be pretty sure it isn't.
Discharge is so awful during the end of
pregnancy, definitely one of those things
no one ever really talks about. A LOT of
women have to wear panty liners during the
last few weeks of pregnancy!
Brown blood is older blood and it can mean
your cervix is changing or it could be
from having an internal exam the day or
two before or from sex. It isn't cause for
alarm unless there is a lot of red blood
with cramping.
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Gisel
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Posts: 3 Location: Santa Barbara county, ca USA
Posted: 02-04-08 20:32pm
It was a lot of blood. The first show was
brown and after that it was red like
normal blood and it stayed that way for a
while then later it had clots in it. Oh
and I haven't had sex in a few months so I
know it wasn't from that. And I have
horrible cramping. Period cramps. But the
nurse sent me home and I've been here in
pain hoping that this much blood is
normal. It's been two days and I am still
leaking blood and changing pads. Maybe
labor is near. I HOPE!
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babyAndy
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 12 May 2007 Posts: 347
Posted: 02-05-08 08:40am
If you still feel uncomfortable despite
being sent home and something doesnt feel
right, just go back. Better to be safe
then sorry.
Usually bloody show is light, brown
pinkish and in discharge. Its not frank
red bleeding, that could be a sign of
something else, specially with the
cramping. I am 40 weeks...and if this was
happening to me, I dont think I would
leave the hospital.
