What causes blood discharge from the vagina during pregnancy?
Patient: I m 37 weeks pregnant and today i went to use the bathroom and when i wiped myself it was little drops of blood on the tissue but not enough to fill the tissue and when i looked in the toilet there was no blood in the stool . What is going on? I m worried. Doctor: Dear Mumma,Any amount of bleeding at any stage of pregnancy is not a good sign. At this stage of pregnancy, if the bleeding is without any pain, first get the ultrasonography done for low lying placenta. If it is placenta praevia, since you are already 37 + weeks, there is no need to wait further with placenta praevia. The baby at 37 weeks is sufficiently mature enough. You can go for delivery - may be caesarean section if the position of the placenta demands for. First episode of placenta paevia bleeding is with little bleeding and the subsequent episodes are alarmingly heavy. Continuing the pregnancy with placenta praevia is like sitting on a sleeping volcano!May be it could be  a spotting from the cervix which is eroded during pregnancy. In such case no intervention is needed. Please report to your Obstetrician ASAP to sort out the matter.