Waters Breaking

[LLKH]

I am 37+3, and according to my midwife, the baby will be arriving in the next few weeks given that the baby's head is quite far down and I have started to have period-like pains a few times a day. I have either had no show or missed it,and neither have my waters broken.

What I'm worried about is that I will somehow miss my waters breaking. Has anyone besides me worried about this and does anyone have any advice?

You will not miss your waters breaking.

You can trust me on this.
You generally 'feel' a pop and a whoosh and then you are saturated...or notice a constant trickle.

You will notice

Also, your waters may not break until you are well into labour, mine didn't go with both dc until just before pushing. with ds 13 minutes from waters to delivered.

Also, with ds my show happened at lunchtime after some v v strong contractions ds born at 9.30pm. DD show was 3 days before she was born.

So what I am saying is it doesn't always happen in a uniform manner: show, waters, baby. but you will know you are in labour regardless of what order everything happens in.

With DS waters went in the pool and I still knew they had gone with dd they went all over dh's feet in the labour room.

I meant show, waters, labour, baby that makes much more sense.

With DD1 my waters went when I was in the bath in the hospital (I think!) With DD2 I certainly noticed it!

You won't miss it - I saturated our front step with a woooosh!

I gave birth to DS2 yesterday morning and my waters also didn't go until I was fully dialated and right before the pushing started.

I had one massive gush, followed by a second, followed by the watery sack bulging out and having to be popped by the midwife then it was all about pushing...

You will definitely notice it!

Thanks. you were all correct. Boy, did I notice. DD was born 4 December at 11:40 PM. She's the most perfect beautiful creature that ever was, of course.

Congratulations! What a nice ending to a thread

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