Waters breaking as a regular small trickle

[atrcts]

I was so surprised when this happened to me! Baby was not due for another 4 1/2 weeks, and I'd suddenly found that when I stand up I suddenly leak a little 'urine'. Only it filled a sanitary towel in seconds, before stopping again.

I was convinced it was pregnancy related urinary incontinence, until that night at 3am I got up to empty my bladder and immediately afterwards had another 'gush'.

I googled how to tell if it's urine or amniotic fluid, and there were a few differences; amniotic fluid can be clear and odourless, but then again so can very diluted urine! The best tip seemed to be trying pelvic floor exercises to 'stop' the gush - allegedly if it stops then its urine, but if it doesn't then it's not.

The problem was that by the time I had begun pelvic floor exercises the gush stopped and I couldn't tell if it was of the pelvic floor exercises stopping urine, or whether it was because the amniotic leak stopped itself again naturally!

Within about 8 hours I developed a low period pain after each gush of water and then eventually the amount increased and became pink tinged. By the time I got to hospital I was 4cm dilated and within 2 1/2 hours I had got to 8cm dilated!

Waters it was then!!!!

I just thought it might help anyone else to know that waters don't necessarily leak all the way through beds, clothes and on restaurant floors like portrayed in the films

When I had my two i was also surprised that waters don't break dramatically in one go like in films lol

Was getting worried nearer d day when out and about incase they broke, but when they did like you they were a small trickle and stopped started and varied in flow depending on how I was standing/lying.

Yeah it's really funny isn't it? How on earth have I seen so many babies born in my family and got to my ripe old age without knowing that it can trickle like that?!!!! That's why I wrote about it, as it would have been handy to know about rather than 'find out' as I go!

I had a similar thing, except I didn't notice at all. I'd been booked in for an early induction and it was only once there and hooked up they told me my waters had broken and I was 3cm dilated before we even started. Now paranoid that this time waters will break really early and I won't have a clue.

Thank you atrcts, very useful!

I was the same, thought I'd weed myself once or twice that day once contractions had started midwife checked next morning with a speculum and the bag had a hole in it(I coughed and it filled something up) Sent home for the movie style gush a few hours later, well kind of, bad contraction in bed and a few whooshes.