To ask you where and when your waters broke?

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I'm coming up to 37 weeks pregnant with my first and have (finally!) started my antenatal classes. We had a long discussion about waters breaking and how it can be a big gush or a slow drip, and it can happen anywhere and everywhere.
I'm thinking about putting down some puppy training pads under my bed sheet as our mattress is only two month old and I'm worried about it getting ruined!
WIBU to ask all you lovely mums when and where your waters broke? And what was it like?
Thanks

With DD I don't know; it must have been during labour at some stage (I was induced) but I didn't notice.

With DS, they broke my waters to induce me. It was like a tsunami. The registrar who did it joked that he should have worn a raincoat. They had put pads out on the bed but it actually flooded the bed and made a waterfall onto the floor. We had to abandon the room entirely to let a cleaner in. It was mortifying and quite funny.

Definitely invest in a good mattress protector and start preparing to see your dignity fleeing into the distance at high speed.

My mum: on the loo. She thought "This is a very long wee!" 😂

I dropped a fork on the floor in my kitchen and heard them pop when I went to pick it up - and they gushed everywhere like a puddle. DD was born 5 hrs later
With DS they didn't pop but laboured quickly and demanded asked mw to break them - DS was born 15 mins later

4 DC. No waters breaking with any of them before being in hospital.

I was in the supermarket with my first, in front of the jaffa cakes. My contractions had started an hour or so before, & I decided I needed to go to the supermarket because DH would need snacks for the hospital.

With my second, they broke seconds before she was born.

We were going out to buy a video camera for our first baby due in 15 days

I just popped to the loo, pulled my trousers up and gush

And i thought thats a bit embarrassing...just wet myself

Got dh to get me a fresh pair of trousers...pulled them up and gush

So not wee then

Mine went at 35 weeks, had been discussing induction/ csection that day and sat there all evening saying we had loads of time, making lists of stuff i needed to get done. In the middle of the night, got up for a wee and thought I'd pissed myself, stood up and it gushed! Also on brand new bed and carpet! Didn't go into labour though.

Also don't be alarmed if it's not a nice clear puddle like on tv

34+4 and woke up to my bum wet, I thought I was just leaking but was my hind waters going. Never even knew that was a thing! I'd lost my plug 4 days before

My NCT woman advised putting puppy pads or similar on the bed and in the car. My water had to be broken in hospital though. Didn't feel it really and baby born 5 mins later.

That was about 11am

Ds1 born at 6.59 that evening

Didnt get contractions til about 3pm

First in bed at 6am

Second during labour, broken by doctor.

DS I was 2 weeks overdue and due to be induced the next day. I'd been having contractions all night and waters broke with a big whoosh in bed in the early hours. It was another 15 or so hours before he was born.

DD I was 2 weeks overdue and waters didn't break until I was pushing DD out in the birthing pool at the hospital. I didn't notice them go.

It was a pop then a gush. Woke up suddenly at the pop then felt the fish and ran to the loo. I was 41 weeks though so knew exactly what it was

*gush not fish!!

In my living room whilst bouncing on my exercise ball at 39 weeks whilst watching the news at 10. Big gush of waters and contractions started about an hour later. Dd was born 12 hours later.

DS1 - I got to 10cm, waters broke, baby born 17min later.
DS2 - waters broken for me by midwives due to dropping heart rate.
DD - waters broken for me at induction to get things going.

Back to back labour so after 30 hours (and only 3/4cm dilated) midwife broke them for me to try to get things going. Didn’t hurt but contractions were very intense after that..

I was getting off the hospital bed from a routine scan and got told it was thrush and got sent home!!!🤷🏻‍♀️

God knows why they didn’t do that dip-test!?

I live an hour away & by the time I’d driven home my car seat was grim.

3 DC here and only time it happened outside of middle of labour was dc1. But they were kind of dripping a bit during the night. I went to see midwife as wasn’t sure if it was waters or urine. Ended up getting sent to hospital as she noticed some slowing of baby’s heart rate. Stayed in overnight for monitoring. Got up in middle of night to go to loo on ward and they went with a big gush. So there was a bit of warning with the dripping. I ended up going home and coming back a couple of days later to be induced as labour didn’t start. Heart rate thing turned out to be a bit of pressure on the cord as it was a bit tangled around ds, meant I had to be quite carefully monitored during labour, but all fine in end.

40+4, was lying in bed and felt a weird sensation - more a sort of giving feeling than a pop - instinctively hopped out and they went all over the floor (laminate, thankfully!).

We were in triage an hour later, 5cm dilated and 7.5hrs after that he was born!

Flat on my back on the hospital bed each time - have been induced three times!

Sudden gush at 39+6 while getting into bed. Thankfully I got to the bathroom before it made it though my PJs.

In hospital during labour, I was already 10cm dilated and pushing. I soaked the poor midwife as I was lying on my back and it came out in a huge gush.

At 40 weeks, when I was in the shower on labour ward already labouring. Dd born 4 hours later. I spent about 3 hours in that shower, Twas bliss on my back!

Son - a slight rupture at 32ish weeks and broken by midwife in natural labour at 36 weeks (so not very useful info for you!). I insisted on having morning wetness when I stood up checked out at hosp after it was initially written off as some sort of normal “fluids”/ slight morning incontinence!

Daughter - as she was being born on her due date in the birthing pool. I vividly remember the underwater popping noise!