Petar Pajic will use the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology to study the evolution of mucus and its role in ...

Experts from Mayo Clinic, March of Dimes, NHS, and others agree that sex during pregnancy doesn’t increase the risk of ...

The Covid vaccine will no longer be recommended for healthy children or healthy pregnant women, ending a pandemic-era policy aimed at protecting all Americans from the coronavirus. Health ...

If pregnancy occurs, the cervix begins forming a mucus plug, which acts as a protective barrier to shield the uterus from bacteria. This process starts early in pregnancy, leading to an increase in ...

The mucus plug is the reason why it's perfectly safe for a pregnant woman to go swimming or take a non-warm bath in the tub, or have sex (with your doctor's go-ahead, of course). Because of the mucus ...

The mucus plug is usually thick, like jelly, and sticky. Vaginal discharge is usually thinner and more slippery than sticky.

The cervical mucus plug formed in the cervix during pregnancy is believed to protect against bacterial infections, but exactly how it functions remains unknown. Over the coming years, researcher ...

If you see signs of the mucus plug, it is a sign that your cervix is softening, ripening, effacing, dilating and moving into position to give birth.

An increase in white, creamy discharge in pregnancy is normal, but some vaginal discharge may signal an infection or other ...

Bloody show describes a type of cervical mucus that happens near the end of pregnancy, just ahead of labor. Bloody show occurs when the mucus plug over the cervix releases during dilation, leading to ...

Most women during pregnancy develop a mucus plug in the cervical canal. Learn signs of labor, what a show is, what a mucus plug is, and what it might mean if you lose it.