Your body: Use this time to rest and prepare for your baby. You might try taking a long slow walk to help bring on labor. Many women lose their mucus plug a week or two before delivery (though for others it doesn’t happen until right before delivery). If the mucus is pink or streaked with blood, it is known as the "bloody show" and usually means labor will begin within the next day. Birth can happen at about any time now.
Baby: The baby's bowels are filled with meconium, a black, tarry substance which will become baby’s first bowel movement.
