APB....Lost mucous plug

[at your cervix]

Attention all Labor and Delivery nurses. A pt just reported that she has lost her mucous plug (at 28 weeks) and if they can't find it, her physician will have to induce her at 32 weeks. So, if anyone finds an extra lying around, please let us know, we want to do anything that we can to prevent a preterm baby!!!!!!

Also wondering, is it possible to have a mucous plug transplant????

[mother/babyRN, RN]

Hey, I never said anyone here ridicules patients, and certainly mean to imply that I felt that way......I was just trying to make a point.....Not intending to upset or mislead anyone....I still think its funny when someone is telling me they know they are in labor when the mucous plug comes a callin, but I would never convey my humorous thoughts to them. I cannot imagine why any one would think that I believe any of you would intentionally ridicule a pt...Poor choice of words from me I guess. Happens to the best of us! Sorry....But then, I will explain that the BP cuff gets really tight on the dinamap because i have had patients really believe their arms are going to explode. I tell them to think of it as a contraction, once it gets as tight as you can imagine, it goes away......Forgive my unintentional Fau paux, Smiling Blue Eyes! Mea Culpa!!!!:)

[mother/babyRN, RN]

By the way, I was NOT giving a lecture either....Expressing my thoughts surely, but no lecture....I find that a little insulting, by the way........