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Clear Discharge During Early Pregnancy. If you have clear watery discharge and you are worried about pregnancy you are not alone. Yes it is normal to have more vaginal discharge while pregnant. It is similar to everyday discharge meaning that it is thin clear or milky white and smells only mildly or not at all. 38 years experience Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Yellow or green early pregnancy discharge could be due to an STD called trichomoniasis. It forms early in pregnancy at about seven weeks explains Prof du Plessis. When your water breaks amniotic fluid may come out as a leak or trickle or in a big dramatic gush. Clear slightly pink or blood tinged discharge. It helps sperm to travel up through your cervix and fertilise the released egg. A watery discharge could happen before or during periods before ovulation of after ovulation.
If your early pregnancy discharge has a cottage cheese-like consistency it could be caused by a yeast infection.
The truth is clear watery discharge is a sign of pregnancy and occurs because of elevated hormones in early pregnancy that changes your thick creamy sticky vaginal discharge to a more watery fluid-like discharge. Usually your discharge becomes drier and thinner after ovulation when estrogen decreases. The cervical discharge may start increasing as soon 1 to 2 weeks after you conceive. Burning or irritation which can be signs of infection. Regular discharge comes out sporadically in small amounts but amniotic fluid leaks out continuously once your water breaks. Clear discharge during early pregnancy or first trimester has a slightly pungent smell.