Waters breaking
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Topic: Waters breaking
Posted By: SarahP08
Subject: Waters breaking
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 11:49am
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Ok so I'm at my sisters at the weekend and she asks me if I'm worried about my waters breaking in public.
Well I wasn't worried until then!!! So is this likely to happen? Has it happened to anyone here? What did you do? Was it awful? and many other questions...  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: monster
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 11:52am
I was safe at home in bed when mine broke. Remember that although every single tv show shows people's waters breaking first, it often doesn't happen like that in real life  -------------   
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Posted By: hooper
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 12:04pm
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i was just putting my DD in the car after being in the mall.
i had a jacket in the car, tired it around my waist and drove home quick as i could. it was werid as it did'nt happen with dd, but i was thinking yay iam gonna have a baby soon. ------------- Desiree 
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Posted By: LeahandJoel
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 12:06pm
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Mine broke half way between the bedroom and bathroom, (about 10 feet apart!) but there was no great gush, but have to admit that this time around I am going to keep some clothes in the car closer to the end! Sometimes your waters don't break until you are pushing and sometime MW has to break them. -------------  
 
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 12:08pm
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Mine broke in the car on our way to the hospital. I had been worried about waters breaking in public and carried a towel in my car, which I was sitting on when my waters broke. -------------  
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 12:14pm
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I never worried about it funnily enough, and in the end I had my waters broken both times. With the gremlins I did worry about cord prolapse if they broke before Sienna was engaged. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: first
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 12:28pm
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From what the MW said at antinatal classes only 15% of waters break before contractions start and then most of those happen at night in bed or on the loo. I'm not too worried about it. I guess if it happens, it happens. Wont be the most pleasant thing but worse things could happen. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Zebra7
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 1:17pm
This may be a silly question ... but if your waters break when you're on the toilet (or in the shower?) ... how do you know that they've broken?  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 1:21pm
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Mine broke on the loo, I had just been to toilet (tmi but contractions sometimes make you empty out). Then I had another contraction and the waters broke. I suppose the feeling is much the same as when you feel blood come out with a period except it is a lot more and definitely a gush.
I think its only something like 5% of women who have spontaneous rupture of the membranes most others either happen during active labour or are broken by a midwife/doc. ------------- 
 
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Posted By: myfullhouse
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 1:24pm
Mine broke while I was on the toilet. I got up at 3am to go to the toilet, finished wee-ing and then heard a tinkle tinkle noise and knew that it wasn't me wee-ing. It was quite a surprise as it was 8 days early and I was supposed to be a week late like the rest of my family! Contractions started an hour later. I am glad it happened this way as I definately wasn't prepared for it to happen in public! Hadn't even given it a thought! ------------- Lindsey 
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Zebra7 wrote:Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 1:40pm
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Mine broke while I was on the hospital bed. it felt like blood coming out when AF is there. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Snappy
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 1:44pm
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mine broke on the way back from the toilet at 12am..
i woke up with so much pressure and pain in my cervix- i got up to go toilet and i was so upset when i was walking (make that crawling!) back to bed to find thepain even worse. the moment i got into the room they burst -all the pressure went after that!!! ------------- Mummy to two beauties... Formerly Kaiz. |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 1:44pm
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I think your mw can give you an idea of the chances... with my first one, my mw told me that most of the time you are in active labour before your waters break. With my second, my mw told me that my waters might break first because of the way the baby was sitting ( a bit prosterior I think).
Both times I sort of heard them break. Its a weird feeling...sort of feels like it should have hurt...but it doesn't. Im not sure what others were like, but it didn't all gush out for me. There was a definate break and a trickle...(kind of like sneezing and wetting your pants a bit), and then it keeps trickling out . if you were really worried, you could use those tena pads or a normal supa pad....that would also show you if there was any discolour in your waters too (which is what your mw will ask once they break) ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Bumble
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 2:27pm
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There was a definite "ping" when mine broke. I was in the hospital bed. Nothing came gushing out, I was able to hold it in!! Till I moved position, then it was a case of "have I wet myself, or did they break?" LOL ------------- formerly known as "Bee" Ethan ~ March 2003 Big 6 year old school boy! Micah ~ Aug 2008 ~ Smiley pants who loves telephones! |
Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 2:28pm
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Mine was broken by the MW at the Hospital.
I never worry about it tho....I think it happens in Public...some might go  but most would be quite excited....
I had a friend, we went shopping for some last min baby things and we were walking towards farmers when wham...all over the place. She stood there with this Shock on her face. I was shocked too...but I was like holly crap lets get you to the hospital..... Some ppl went past asking if she was ok and congrats!! Some just looked a her funny!! Who cares right??  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: SarahP08
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 2:38pm
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Haha thats awesome Roksana.
I'm not overly worried about it happening I think the likelihood of being allowed out of the house near my due date is slim anyway as I'm staying with Mum and Dad. I have other things I'm more worried about, but after visiting my sister I was thinking jeebers I never thought of that! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 2:51pm
If mine break at home I think thats what will happen to me, I have HEAPS of pressure down there at times now and its getting worse at night, so I think something similar will happen to me, if my waters break that is. My mum said her waters never broke and she never had a show with any of us 4 kids, she just started off with contractions. ------------- |
Posted By: Daizy
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 3:10pm
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Well the first time my waters broke on the toilet. I arrived at the hospital absloutley busting. The mw wanting me to pee in a cup and the second I sat down there was a sudden gush and ended up with it all over me.
The second time I had just been sent home from the hospital as things had slowen down. Just as I got into bed and lay down I heard a popping sound. didnt really think anything of it untill i could feel something trickling down my leg. I made a sudden dash for the bathroom and it all came out over the bathroom floor. I kept leaking for ages after which made it pretty hard to get back to the hospital. ------------- 
 
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Posted By: PippaLockysMummy
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 4:05pm
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Haha this is exactly what happened to me - i was like yay finally!! 4 days overdue ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: cat007
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 10:34pm
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Mine broke when I was in bed asleep but I woke up and made it to the toilet before they gushed.
I knew my waters had broken when I peed as well while I was on the toilet. Was a slightly different sensation. Also when I figured out in my sleepy state that my waters had broken, I had to check the colour of the liqua, I also saw the lanugo hairs that had fallen off baby - they were in the liqua. Nobody ever told me about that before! I guess you just will know when it happens. Also a lot of people's waters never break until they are in established labour and they have to be manually broken by mw. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  [/url http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 11:53pm
| I woke up and needed to pee, went to the loo, had a show, went back to bed, got up straight away, and pop! Grabbed a towel and made it to the lino in the kitchen before it started gushing. Although apparently they were only leaking - I still remember when the m/w actually ruptured the membranes and it was a huge relief. |
Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 05 June 2008 at 2:04am
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my first 2 pregnancies the MW broke my water.
With number 3 I was in bed laying down trying to ignore the 5min apart contractions when I had a strong contraction and actually felt Alize's head move down and I heard a pop and a gush of the warmest liquid lol. I had just returned from a marching competiton 15mins before so was so happy to have the waters waiting till I got home before breaking because I would have been so embarrashed lol |
Posted By: MissAngel
Date Posted: 05 June 2008 at 7:46am
| the MW broke mine @ 3cm dilated and omg it was NASTY lol! Was warm and flooded out like nothing i've ever experienced before! but the relief afterwards tho.. I was always worried about them breaking in public, I carried a towel in the car and a few of those green hospital absorbent pads (which you can buy at the pet shop for pet messes, or you can get at the MW) After they induced me for the first time and nothing happened, I sat on one all the time until i went back a week later and had him - I'm way too paranoid hehe |
Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 05 June 2008 at 11:39am
| Kind of like when your busting for a pee and then go but a million times better! |
Posted By: scarecrowfarm
Date Posted: 05 June 2008 at 12:11pm
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I didn't worry about it as I figured the odds of it happening to me were fairly low, but I did prepare for it just in case by keeping a couple of old towels in the car. ------------- Robyn www.scarecrowfarm.co.nz |
Posted By: Skyflame
Date Posted: 05 June 2008 at 8:31pm
| Mine never broke. MW broke mine after I had given birth. |
Posted By: Neeks
Date Posted: 05 June 2008 at 10:05pm
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I had gotten up to go pee (like you do lol) but nothing happened when i did so.. so I went back to bed and had just gotten comfy again when my waters broke...they didn't break fully though (mum said keziah had her finger in the hole she accidentally made lol) and they leaked slowly for 2 days before they finally broke them properly with the hook...YUCK, that's a weird feeling and OMG the mess, I'm so glad they didn't go fully *rofl* -------------  
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Posted By: chonny
Date Posted: 05 June 2008 at 10:12pm
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mine were broken at 4cm. it was a warm gush of liquid on da hospital bed. i remember feeling the tug, and kind of hearing something, but don't remember any relief or anything. not sure what will happen this time... -------------   
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Posted By: emachan
Date Posted: 05 June 2008 at 10:25pm
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so (probably a stupid question) is it A LOT of water like in the TV/Movies you see? The reason I'm asking is some of you described it like the pool of blood you sometimes get with AF, but its not like heaps (well not for me anyways! - I'd think I was heomaragging or something if it was real bad!)
So, is it like a cup full? More/less? I guess everyone is different! I can just remember Desperate Housewives when Bree's waters broke and they were a BIG puddle on the floor! ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  DD#1 Sept 08 DD#2 Oct 09 |
Posted By: MissAngel
Date Posted: 06 June 2008 at 12:14am
For me it was kinda like a release of pressure inside. Baby didnt go clunk into my pelvis that I could feel, I just didnt feel like my tummy was as tight. ------------- Alex, Thomas and Lily http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: chonny
Date Posted: 06 June 2008 at 9:38am
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emma, i not sur ehow much it is, i just remember hearing at antenatal class that if you think you have wet yourself because it's your waters, put a pad on and if it's your waters an hour later it will be totally soaked. i think it differs from person to person but if the break in a gush, they will continue to leak i think. i just know you gotta have a pad on. coz i remember the midwife putting two in my undies after breaking mine... -------------
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Posted By: scarecrowfarm
Date Posted: 06 June 2008 at 9:54am
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My midwife broke my waters and while I noticed a wee gush of warm fluid it didn't seem like a lot of fluid. I suspect Lucy's head might have been in the way.
Though I do wonder if she partially broke them when she did her first internal exam, as I had a quick gush of something that looked like blood but had the consistency of water. It went straight through a thick towel, through our duvet covet and onto the sheets. Considering how quickly it happened I can't help but think there must have been some amniotic fluid amongst it. It wasn't like typical bleeding as it stopped almost as quickly as it started. Anyone else have this happen and know what it was? Surely it can't have been the plug if it was that fast and thin? ------------- Robyn www.scarecrowfarm.co.nz |
Posted By: chonny
Date Posted: 06 June 2008 at 9:56am
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scarecrowfarm? did you have a home birth?
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