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

[ANGELMOTHER]

I know it's daft but I have this irrational fear of them exploding in Boots .
I had my waters manually ruptured with dd (do not want to repeat this), but lately feel as though this bub will punch them out soon, and as I'm currently 40+2 believe they'll go soon.
So who has the most embarassing story ???

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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

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!

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!

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 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.

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.

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 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!

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Mine broke in bed with DD. i woke up a second before the pop and managed to fling the duvet off in time. When I telephoned the delivery unit they asked how I knew. As I explained it was bl*y Niagara Falls in our bedroom.

Second time in the labour room just before DS shot out.

Spookily, when I woke on Oct 24 last year - ds's due date - I said, 'Come on baby -it's your birthday' - and no kidding - seconds later my waters broke and I had a show. Weird, huh?!
I did get very leaky again when I got out of the car at hospital and had to rush to the loos and rescue dry pair of pants and trousers from change bag!

Ha, ha mothernature - similar story here, I left it a bit late to get to hosp with ds and m/w decided to call ambulance. Waters went with a huge gush all over the floor of ambulance, everyone sliding during scary cross-London dash. V. embarrassing, but really I was so far gone in labour I didn't care. More embarrassed remembering the noise I made....

A trickle, in Brixton High St. Not noticable, though, and continued to trickle for the next 24 hours. In fact we went out for dinner that night as we thought that it would be the last time in ages we'd manage it! So, no embarrassment - and more evidence that most of us escape without starring in our own sitcom!

In both labours I only had a show and then a minor trickle in the early stages. The main gush was in hospital on both occasions. The most spectacular was with DD during an internal examination by a huge doctor with shovel like hands. He told me that I wasn't in labour, despite doing the internal mid-contraction and when he withdrew his hand he got the full force of my waters and all the gunk that went with them - oh boy did he deserve it!!! He just held his hand up and looked at the midwife with a pathetic "yuk" expression on his face. Served him bloody well right! He still insisted that I was not in labour and gave me a sleeping tablet and paracetamol then sent me up to the ward where I was dragged out of the bath 30 minutes later in transition. DD was born 45 minutes later.

Isn't it interesting that for all we worry about it, there are very few truely embarassing 'waters breaking' stories here.

I have a friend whose waters never broke - both times her children were born 'in the bag'. She wouldn't let the midwives break the bag until the child was completely out. Weird.

In bed, but only a little, the rest in the hospital. Second time with a big knitting needle in hospital, or whatever it is they use!

boyandgirl, according to superstition its supposed to be lucky if the baby is born with the "caul" intact, I think that's how it's spelt. Or so my mother told me, yes she was born in hers.
I wonder aboutthe baby breathing or does it still get enough oxygen from the umbilical cord?