Do the fluids that come out of a woman before childbirth carry the ruling of post-natal bleeding?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This is a woman asking, and she says: What is the ruling on the fluids that come out of a woman during her pregnancy and just before childbirth?

Answer:
If they are connected to the childbirth, then it is post-natal bleeding. But if they are not connected to the childbirth, then they have no effect. She breaks her ablution, she dries herself, she performs the ablution, and she prays.