The Time Has Come
I don't know about you, but I think that whoever came up with the term "mucus plug" needs to be tried as a war criminal and possibly deported. Because that name just sucks. And I think that the time has come for a new, revamped name. I mean if the luxurious sounding chlamydia is a name for a venereal disease, shouldn't something that is part of the miracle of birth have a lovelier term attached to it? Or at least a less nauseating one?
I propose laboria.
The bonus is that it sounds like labia, so when a woman says "I lost my laboria," there is always a slight and exciting possibility that someone will misunderstand and think that she is missing genitals. I see this as a win-win proposition. And possibly my qualification for the Nobel Prize in Language Development.
Yeah, I know. Not all blog posts are created equal.
I propose laboria.
The bonus is that it sounds like labia, so when a woman says "I lost my laboria," there is always a slight and exciting possibility that someone will misunderstand and think that she is missing genitals. I see this as a win-win proposition. And possibly my qualification for the Nobel Prize in Language Development.
Yeah, I know. Not all blog posts are created equal.
posted by Marinka at
10:58 AM
31 Comments:
I second the motion. Nothing like telling your child she was preceded into the world by a plummish looking snotball.
I am going to stop commenting here because I am too redundant. For the last time - you are hilarious!
OMG! That is the perfect name for it. I agree mucus plug sounds disgusting. Boogers could become mucus plugs - that seems more appropriate.
So my question is, would you pronounce it "lab-OR-ia," or "labor-ee-a" to rhyme with gonorrhea?
Wait!
I hate to ask, but...
What IS a mucus plug?
Please don't make me Google. From the sounds of it, I might faint.
Sincerely,
Childless in Vermont
How about Birthday Bullet?
You? Are BRILLIANT.
That is all.
I guess I'm with Wendy. My initial assumption was that a mucus plug was nose-related. I'm guessing I was wrong. Also, not googling...don't want someone borrowing my computer to see past searches and think there's something I'm not telling them.
Birthday bullet freaking rocks! I'm for that.
I am also childless and am not familiar with the mucus plug, but I think I've pieced it together from your post. I will not google to investigate further, though, because last time I did that was the unfortunate day I learned what an episiotemy was, and I haven't been the same since.
I think a lot of the names of female reproductive parts are screwy. Fallopian tubes? Uterus? Clitoris, anyone?
Tara
http://theyoungmommylife.com
Google it ladies! Don't worry, it's just a part of labor and delivery so no Feds will rush your house and seize your laptops. LOL!
Hey, how about CORK?
People love "popping corks" at parties and having a baby is just as special as you "pop" it out.
We girls tend to get the more gross sounding anatomy words...I've really never gotten over learning about the "vulva" in Junior High sex ed and then realizing they were not referring to a masterpiece of European automobile engineering...still creeps me out.
Ladies...ladies...mucus plug..."The mucous plug is a collection of cervical mucus that seals the opening of the cervix"...LOL Keeps that baby IN! Well, sort of. And I'm not sold on that name, but I'll go with majority. I was fortnate enough to never see either of mine.
I don't know. But, plumbish looking snotball should be the official Webster's definition.
"baby cork".
you're welcome. :)
What is wrong with all of you? What happened to "Marinka, 'laboria' is perfect! Let us celebrate with the drinking of champagne!"?!
But you know.. Mucus Plug... so visual...
Marinka, 'laboria' is perfect! Let us celebrate with the drinking of champagne!
TO FUNNY! I just have to know what made you think even think about a mucus plug??? I like the idea of a new name- a plug makes it sound like it is a plumbing device.....I like laboria!!!
PS Love your blog- I've come over here a few times from anymommyoutthere and enjoy it alot!
I'll drink champagne! We can compare laboria stories.
First of all, who even brought UP the word mucus plug? What the hell were we talking about?
Or even the Nobel peace prize?
Sounds good to me!
What a lovely opening for the award I gave you. Stop by when you can
In all fairness to your readers. Who put up with you every day. Who tirelessly leave you comments. I think you should let your readership decide on your new name. That's the just and right thing to do! Though, I just might vote for Laboria should it wind up in a poll or something.
Marinka, "laboria" is perfect! Let us celebrate with the drinking of champagne!
Apparently, I'll say anything you want me to when you offer booze.
I just wish losing you labroia actually meant something was going to happen, instead of it being - you might go into labor, but then again, you might not. It's like a bad fortune cookie.
laughing hysterically over here.
and you reminded me of my story about a wandering labia (yes, really) - which i shared once with a blogger, and now she doesnt talk with me any more. i think i scared her. or something. so, since i like ya, i wont share it with you. but just know, it's really funny. and sick and perverted, at the same time. and yes, the labia DID wander all on its very own... ;)
I love it! My friend The Whore and I made up a word for an early dinner/late lunch. We call it Dunch. Sounds kind of dirty and way better than Linner. Champagne for everyone!!!
I'm a little late to the game, but oh, I love laboria. MUCH more romantic-sounding than mucous plug & so perfectly suggestive of what is coming down the pike. I must admit that after reading my fill of Ina May Gaskin's pregnancy & birthing books I was very excited to see my plug & be completely at one with my mucousy natural-birthing-womanliness. so I spent a little time looking around for the darn thing until GOOD GRIEF the contractions made me forget all about it. laboria, laboria, yes, indeed.
I like baby cork. Makes me think of popping champagne!
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