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Discharge

So I'm 18 weeks pregnant and everything is just fine except that I have tremendous amounts of discharge. It is normal in both odor and color and my doctor checked at my last visit (less than two weeks ago) and I do not have an infection. While I'm not worried about there being anything wrong, I was just wondering if anyone else has had something similar during pregnancy and if there was anything that you found that made you more comfortable. I have to wear a maxi pad every day or my, um, nether regions get all irritated from the moisture.

What can I do next?

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yup! I know the feeling! I am 17weeks and the same thing here. I don't know why b/c I don't remember it being like that with my other 2 pregnancies. I use panty liners to keep up but that's all I know to do.:)

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I always have some discharge but when pregnant, it was a lot more!
I went through several panty liners a day. Just change out the liners often is my only advice. I tried some feminine powders just to ease my mind about odor.
Good luck!

Oy! I wish someone had warned me about the discharge thing before I got pregnant so I could have been better prepared for it! I'm now baking my third kid, and have finally figured out that cloth pads (luna pads, mama cloth) work wonderfully well to sop up that extra moisture and keep you from getting irritated down there. I wear them daily, and love that I can just throw them in the wash and use them over and over again. Maxi pads and liners didn't work for me - they don't breathe well enough to keep my skin happy.

Congrats on your pregnancy!

I'm 15 weeks pregnant and have the same problem. Haven't found a solution to help though.

It is very common in most pregnancys. I didn't have it bad enough to wear maxi pad, but it sounds like you are doing everything you can do it should start to let up during the middle of your second trimester.

yup! I know the feeling! I am 17weeks and the same thing here. I don't know why b/c I don't remember it being like that with my other 2 pregnancies. I use panty liners to keep up but that's all I know to do.:)

All that you can really do is just stay clean and dry, keep wearing a pad and add some baby powder with the pad. I'm 28 weeks pregnant and only had a very little bit of this, but staying dry down there is crucial because it is so easy to get an infection right now. You will have more wierd things come up, but most of it will be normal. LOL!

I had that with my second pregnancy too and was told all the same stuff...wear panty liners or pads and use baby powder. By mistake I grabbed the baby powder with cornstarch (instead of talc) and found that it had MUCH better feel and absorbtion!! Don't go expensive, most grocery stores have their own brand you can buy for very litle. Just make sure it has cornstarch in it. You'll feel a difference right away! Hope this helps and congrats on your bun in the oven! :)

I noticed that no one mentioned "trick" it's short for (and forgive my spelling) trickanosis ?any way i had it when i was pregnant and when i got up in the morning to go to the bathroom, i would drip this discharge all the way to the bathroom. I had to take a pill after the baby was born, my husband did too as they say the man carries it but has no symptoms but he passes it to the woman over and over if he is not treated too. It was milky white had no odor and was runny and thin. No itching but a little skin irritation if i recall (hey it was 23 yrs ago!) i would think however that your doctor would have picked up on it when you were there two weeks ago, so it's very possible that this is not what you have, just wanted to give you a heads up to think about the possibility. Good luck

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