Stupid worry but where did your waters break ????

With my first, mine broke in bed, big gush --woke me up. At the hospital in the ER (not an emergency, but that's where you went in the middle of the night) I can remember refusing all offers of places to sit. Standing up it was a trickle, sitting it poured. (Had to go to hospital as soon as they broke as I had tested pos for GBS)

Second child, they broke after I awoke from a sleeping pill the nice nurse had given me after a pessary to get things going. On the toilet, that time!

Both times, my waters broke before I noticed contractions.

Not embarrasing - At 38 weeks I woke up at 3am with what I thought was a bad dream and sore tummy (turned out to be a mild contraction). Needed to go to the loo (which at that stage of pregnancy was not surprising) - went to loo, came back to bed only to return back to loo rather quickly and embarrased as I realised that I didn't seem to have finished peeing ! Stayed there for next 10 mins as waters broke....with dh snoring happily next door Serious contractions only started at around 6pm next day (so I did all my housework during the day) with baby born 4.24 am.

The first time mine were manually ruptured when I was 8cm (OP baby, apparantly this makes it harder for waters to break). 2nd time I, too was in bed. I thought I'd wet myself and then realised what was happening - it was the 'pop' which gave it away. I got a bit of a fright as I was 10 days early.
I had a Kooshies mattress protector which wasn't at all crinkly! Now we use it for dd's bed.

I remember a midwife telling us in the parentcraft class that if your waters broke in Marks and Spencers you got free stuff.

Mine went with a slight pop at around 3am when I was in bed and they trickled. I'd been wearing a maternity pad for a few days just in case and on the advice of the midwives I had put a black bag under the sheet/on top of the matress but since it was only trickle I didn't need to worry.

although I've since found out that sometimes they gush, I didn't know that at the time, which was why I was wearing a pad. I now know that the pad wouldn't have been of any help should I have been a gusher.

I woke at 2.30am needing the loo, then felt as if I needed again whwen I gt back to our room. I was then running around looking for the materninty pads. I phoned the hospital and they said to make my way in. I sat on 2 or 3 toweks as Dp has just taken delivery of a new MINI about 3 weeks before.

I too thought I needed a wee and by the time I waddled into the loo I gushed. Then had a further gush on the car seat (subsequently sold the car - too small, nothing to do with the smell.. honest). I then had to walk through the hospital foyer with strangers looking at my dripping tracksuit bottoms.

First time mine too went pop in the delivery suite, just as I was moaning that the epidural wasn't working...so that was about 10 hours in, at 5cm...second time, completely without any warning, in what is technically my office (but is actually the room at the top of our house), 16 days ahead of schedule. I was on the phone and mumsnet at the time - you can read it on the 'signs of labour starting soon' thread!

Aw, I missed out. I was in Boots and then Books etc for my first two noticeable contractions, but two hours later I was home and tucked up in bed, on top of my specially bought matress protector.

When my waters broke, as I turned over in bed as the Archers finshed, I was so excited that I jumped out of bed to call dp and go to the bathroom! Consequently I didn't get any on the special protector - it all went on the bathroom floor.

First time was on the loo, and it was Niagara Falls - it was still pouring out 20 minutes later when we got in the car to go to hospital, and dh grabbed an old carrier bag off the back seat of the car for me to sit on. Unfortunately it was covered in oil so when I got there I had big black smears all over my backside, and my shoes had filled up with fluid so I squelched in feeling hideously embarrassed. Second time they went with a resounding pop on the bed in the delivery suite. BTW, John lewis give you £500 if your waters break in there, and I think Asda give you a year's supply of nappies - that is what several people told me.

Mine was done manually during induction. They couldn't do it to start with as DD's head was in the way; when they did manage it it was a tiny trickle as the fluid still tried to get past her.

Mine broke during labour all three times. This really annoyed me first time as I'd spent four weeks sleeping with a horrible, crinkly, noisy plastic matress protector on my bed, just in case....
My sil's waters broke while she was on the up-escalator in C&As Edinburgh store (now closed). Funnily enough, a few years later she started working there!

Mine went at the start of the pushing, both labours. (Not embarassing, even though it felt like I was being a fireman's hose, just oddly a relief.) I had a single-bed size rubberised sheet under my bedsheet from about 36wks on, because I move around too much to stay on top of one of those diddy little pampers changing mats!

I had mine manually ruptured with my first as I was induced and I wasn't told that they were doing it. So when my waters suddenly gushed everywhere I was petrified and started crying, I had no idea what they were doing! The midwifes looked a little shocked as well because there was an incredible amount of it.

With second labour I realised when I was around 6 cm that I was terrified of my waters breaking on their own. I was finding the pain difficult to deal with and I didn't want anything to scare me incase I lost concentration. I asked for my waters to be broken for me and midwifes agreed as contractions didn't seem to be effective. It was the best decision I could have made as the midwife said that the membrane was very tough and unlikely to break by itself. A short time later ds2 was born. Like you I wanted as natural a birth as possible which I acheived despite the manual rupture, but to be quite honest I really didn't care. Each labours different and I didn't anticipate being so scared of my waters breaking so keep an open mind as you get closer to the birth. Good luck!

First time manually ruptured (induction), 2nd time when I sat up in bed in the morning. Walked round with a bath towel clutched between my legs while making ds1's packed lunch for school

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No embarassment here either. I woke up at 11.30pm, stumbled to the ensuite loo and my waters broke in the 5ft walk from bedside to loo ! DD was born 3 hours & 1 minute later. I'm glad they didn't go on the matress though as I was a gusher rather than a trickler !

I also dreaded my waters breaking in public. They started to trickle in bed at around midnight, after I had started having some mild contractions. The heavy contractions started soon afterwards and DS was born approaching 8pm. As it was a constant trickle throughout my labour, it was easier to wear nothing below my waist (apart from socks and during the journey into hospital), which I was initially mortified at. Hey, soon lost any pretence of modesty. I had also put a cot mattress protector sheet beneath the sheet on my bed, just in case.

Like mothernatures first one, mine happened in hospital - only a few minutes before the birth. I didn't notice at all as we had a waterbirth, and I was already in the tub (or mini-skip) by then, but was flabbergasted that they could hold until so close to the time.

My first in hospital about an hour before actual birth of No 1. Second when at No1's Godparent's house on their new sofa..., (Had to get ambulance as multibirth), this continued in the ambulance all I could say was Sorry, ooh... I am sorry, amubulance driver and mate very nice about whole thing made me feel as though it was natural to pee over the floor causing major flood, New river now in area where I live......only joking, it just felt like that at the time.

No embarrassing story here, I think I told this in another threadmy water broken in middle of the night while I was sleeping, no popping or anythingjust trickle, trickle and I work up in a small puddle. I walked around with a pillow between my legs for the next 6 hours waiting for serious contractions which never came..started to get nervous so I had my husband take me to the hospital. I was never worrried about my water breaking, I was obessed about taking a huge crap on the floor in front of everyone while I was pushing during labor--thank goodness that didn't happen! Good Luck Angelmother

I put the waterproof thing from ds's cot between sheets and mattress. Figured if I expected him to sleep on it it must be okay. Shower curtain sounds very hot and sticky.

Mine were manually ruptured in both labors when I was almost fully dialated. At least if they explode in Boots, you won't have to clean it up..

mine really did go pop,and then gushed all over my poor cats head(i was standing up,he was rubbing against my ankles)!!