Breaking waters?

I was planning on wearing pads but never got around to it as I went in labour early. I woke up one night to go to the bathroom (standard pregnancy practice ) and felt a warm trickle down my leg and I knew! No pads would have saved me though - there was quite a lot - I used a towel. We put a couple of extra towels in the car for the trip to the hospital and all is fine with the upholstery.
Good luck!

ETA - my contractions started 5-6 hours later

Edited by yummymummy

mine broke at 38 weeks or so it was like a little pop and they trikled out for 4 weeks i thought it was the old "peeing myself because i am a big fatt whale" and they found out when i was 2 weeks over due i wore a pad for that time (and no i didnt tell my midwife and man did i get in trouble) most woman i have talked to have had no warning of there waters braking or didnt notice ie there were in laubour allready

neither of mine broke on their own... the first time was in the hospital after induction and the second they broke them for me in hospital

Mine broke at 7am the day I went into labour, just as I woke up and was about to get out of bed. Luckily the loo isn't far from our bedroom, and I managed to sit on the toilet before the worst of it came. It wasn't a *huge* gush but there was still a fair amount of fluid. Once it slowed down I wore maternity pads, and managed OK with them. The only thing we really did for 'protection' was to put a folded up towel on the passenger seat in the car.

i woke up and went to the loo to pee at around 415ish am and was just in the process of climbing over df to get into bed when i kinda felt a bit of a trickle and then just as soon as i got to the bathroom they gushed. i just shoved a towel between my legs and 'waddled' back to the bedroom to tell df my waters had just broken and could he ring the m/w. about 10 mins later contractions started.
i didnt have anything to protect the matress(there is still a small stain on it) or the car as after the first gush it leaked for about a hour then stopped, although int he car i could have used something when i threw up all thru our month old car

i know some of the nappy stores like diapers express sell disposable matress protectors.

mine broke in hospital when i went to the toilet.

but i did have a friend who woke up in a pool of water at 26weeks and just thought shed wet the bed (random) and 4 days later told her midwife and she was already 4cm dialated.
baby was born a few hours and a helecopter ride later and is fine tho,

With Andrew I was at the hospital (I was induced) and we heard the pop and then just after that (about 2 minutes) the contractions started and they were bad.

With Josh they were broken for me, and just after that the contractions started.