Today's daf begins Perek III. It begins with a Mishna about childbirth, which states that women will be named ritually impure if they discharge anything with blood from their uteruses. This includes any amorphous discharge, anything shaped like a shell, or soil, or a mosquito, or a small despised thing like a reptile, or even a small animal. Different tests are required, including putting these things in water to check for blood or bones, but we know that the rabbis consider women to be ritually impure if there is a question of childbirth, stillbirth, or miscarriage.
The Mishna continues, discussing different consequences of male children and female children (where ritual impurity lasts for different amounts of time for male and female children). The rabbis consider situations that might cause them to consider a woman ritually pure after discharge through the vaginal canal.
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