If traces of brown or brownish mucus with a noticeable smell of raw meat appear on your underwear, you need to make an appointment with a doctor. Such a picture at a late stage of the “interesting” position means that a certain amount of blood has penetrated into the natural mucus.
Only a doctor can determine the nature of the mucus and decide whether a pregnant woman needs emergency hospitalization. In most cases, brown discharge is a serious reason for the expectant mother to go to the hospital. Sometimes there is a need for medical supervision of a pregnant woman until birth.
In the last trimester of pregnancy, such discharge, or brown leukorrhea (as this phenomenon is scientifically called) is a sign of blood loss in the vessels that nourish the uterus.
Such blood loss is not dangerous to the life of the fetus, but small but regular bleeding deprives the baby of a full volume of oxygen.
Hospitalization of the mother in this case allows doctors to protect her from any stress and closely monitor the well-being of the baby in her womb.
Alternatively, the appearance of brown mucus in a pregnant woman in the third trimester of pregnancy may signal placenta previa. The incorrect location of the baby's place in the uterus determines the method of delivery. Doctors will examine the pregnant woman and decide how the baby will be born - naturally or through a cesarean section.