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Childbirth

Share experiences and get support around labour, birth and recovery.

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Original poster

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

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ANGELMOTHER · 25/09/2003 20:41

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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boyandgirl · 01/10/2003 13:34

Mears or someone else would probably know, but my friend said that as long as the cord is still pulsating regularly the baby still gets oxygen via the placenta. But she didn't delay opening the bag once the baby was out completely, as she didn't want to risk the placenta shutting down before the baby was breathing. And as for luck, well her older one is incredibly good not only academically and in sports, but in looks and personality too!

mears · 02/10/2003 09:59

You are right boy and girl. The baby still gets oxygen from the pulsating cord but the membranes are torn away fron the face as soon as the baby is born. It means that the baby is more cushioned at delivery when born in the sack.

trude · 24/04/2004 00:52

Mine did break while out shopping at 38 weeks in the carpark!!! drove myself home sat on plastic bag, having contractions while filtering in off a slip road. DS obviously knew we had just bought the carseat and were ready for him to appear!

hatter · 24/04/2004 17:09

Mine broke in the middle of the night and it was so unlike the stereo-type shopping trip tv drama gush that it took me ages to work out what was happening. It was just a trickle, couldn't work out if it was pee or just some rather watery (god I hate this word) discharge. Eventually it dawned on me...what really took me by surpise - but then seemed logical - is that it keeps on trickling - at quite a rate - but I believe your body/the baby carries on producing it. DD wasn't born for another 3 days....I spent all my time running round (with mega-size sanitary towel) trying everything I possibly could to avoid induction...

Twinkie · 24/04/2004 17:11

On the bed in the delivery suite!!

Apparently if they break when you are in M&S you get lots and lots of freebies - oooohhhh I am going to spend most of November in the M&S cafe in Bromley if anyone would like to jin me

Nutcracker · 24/04/2004 17:34

Mine broke just as i was falling asleep in bed. I was fully clothed as i had the flu and was to cold and knackered to get undressed.

donnie · 24/04/2004 17:50

fairly dull me, in bed as I was nodding off. It was a bit of a gush though! dwindled to a tricke afterwards with gushes every now and again. My friend's waters broke in Sainsbury;s! she didn't get any free food though, grrr!

kiwisbird · 24/04/2004 18:01

Mine burst over the midwife as she delivered my son, he was born in his bag and they ruptured when he came out. I was standing up almost, midwife was under me... whooshhh

With dd they also broke just as she was being delivered, only coating my Dh's shoes...

Hulababy · 24/04/2004 18:04

Mine were broken during labour as part of induction process. They couldn't break them to start with as DD's head was in way. Poor little thing was born with little marks and scratches on her head from the attempts.

Toothache · 24/04/2004 18:09

Mine went whilst in hospital with high BP. I was sitting up in bed doing a crossword at 3.30am when I suddenly felt this flow of liquid. I was wearing a maternity pad at the request of the midwives so I went to the toilet and changed it. It was pinkish tinged clear fluid. I remember think it was probably my waters, which was quickly confirmed when I sneezed and a little gush came out!

Labour started 4 or 5 hours later. I can't remember the hind waters flooding out, but I had had diamorphine so probably just didn't notice ... or didn't care!

hana · 24/04/2004 18:26

waters had to be broken with the crochet hook thing at some point during labour - was in and out of my epidural haze so don't really remember, I do remember feeling like I had wet myself though.

lou33 · 24/04/2004 20:25

On the toilet, in the kitchen at my sister's house, in bed, and in the delivery suite.

Tex111 · 24/04/2004 20:32

Mine were broken as part of the induction. They asked me to walk around to try to get things going so I put on a huge maternity pad, got dressed and DH and I walked around and ended up in the Starbucks next to the hospital. It was fine until I got up to leave and there was a huge gush of water! No one in Starbucks even looked. I guess they've probably seen it a hundred times.

Tex111 · 24/04/2004 20:32

I do feel sorry for whoever had to mop it up!

Thomcat · 24/04/2004 20:51

I gave birth to mine whole I think. They didn't break that's for sure and something very much like a water balloon came out whole a short time before Lottie appeared.

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