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Really gross question......

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pucca · 04/08/2006 00:48

I had a large show on Monday and have lost little bits every day since, but today have noticed a couple of wet patches in my knickers (sorry if TMI) and has a very distinctive smell, smells very sweet like i remember from when my waters broke with my dd.

Do waters always go with a huge gush? or could i be leaking very slightly?

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pucca · 04/08/2006 20:12

The MW said i would be soaking a pad through if waters had gone?!

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SlightlyFamiliarPeachyClair · 04/08/2006 20:16

That's not true

They can leak with a dribble

Friends went at 26 weeks like that, she had to go in though for a while as she was put on antibiotics and the tear healed

but they can trickle for sure

flutterbee · 04/08/2006 20:21

When mine went it was just a small trickle they told me it wasn't my waters this went on for days in the end I caught some in a sample pot and took it into them, sure enough it was my waters. I was scanned the next day and had no fluid left around ds

I would go and ask to be checked out just to make sure.

SlightlyFamiliarPeachyClair · 04/08/2006 20:24

I just searched a few sites

Apaprently the test is (this is TMI...) you walk around with just a t shrt on. If youa re still leaking after 3 or 4 minutes it is amnio. otherwise you just pi"*ed on your carpet LOL!

Seriously, that's the GP recommended test on the site I found.

HTH

clairemow · 04/08/2006 20:51

HAVE YOU GONE IN/PHONED YET??? Please do!!! It's right that you carry on making the fluid continuously and it will keep coming/dribbling out. And it def sounds like baby's head is the only thing stopping it gushing out...

I know this because I went into hospital on a false alarm at 36 weeks last time thinking my waters had broken when in fact I'd sat on a wet car seat and not realised. If I'd known the water kept on coming, I'd have realised I had just been a pratt. Once in hospital, having suddenly remembered that I'd had to close the sun roof on the car after it had rained all night, and that was the cause of the wetness, I had to own up and confess to being a total idiot.

Now I've shared this embarrassing, ridiculous story, you have to go in, as yours really is amniotic fluid, and it really is still leaking.

jabberwocky · 04/08/2006 22:25

I'm shocked the MW told you that. They were skeptical when I called as well, but waters had definitely broken.

Go in, Go in, GO IN!!!!!!!

MrsSpoon · 04/08/2006 22:33

pucca, I am in the go in camp. If it is not your waters it could be the sign of some sort of infection. I went in with something similar when pg with DS1, they took a swab, confirmed it wasn't my waters but had it tested and discovered I had Strep B and needed antibiotics in labour. If you are desperate to go into labour the examination might be enough to set you off naturally.

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pucca · 04/08/2006 22:38

I am still here lol, MW just said it sounds like a continuation of my show as not filling a pad with fluid, still feeling leaky though, and have just had another blob of pink goo come away (sorry! tmi again). It is just when i wipe really now, still same colour and smell though, just shocked that a show can go on for 5 days especially the size of it on Monday

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strongmints · 04/08/2006 22:46

my show was from wed to sunday night

shorty3 · 04/08/2006 22:50

Please go have it checked and be firm with the midwives.

Don't want to scare you but:
I had been having leaks from membranes day before giving birth. Had it checked out and they sent me home cause there wasn't enough. Gave birth following day and DD had Group B Strep and had to stay in hospital for 2 weeks on anitbiotics.

jabberwocky · 04/08/2006 22:56

I hate to say it, but I am just cynical enough to believe that the midwife may not want to come out on a Friday/weekend

GO IN!!!

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pucca · 04/08/2006 23:02

JW...that was MW on del suite, me thinking they would say go in, i just give up lol

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pucca · 04/08/2006 23:03

God think you have to pay and go private for them to come to your house lol

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alexsmum · 04/08/2006 23:41

no if you have a community midwife she should come out. i beg you pucca go in and get checked or demand that someone comes out nd checks you at home

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pucca · 05/08/2006 00:06

AM...gonna wait till morn now, and i promise if still going on will demand to go in i have DH and DD in bed now so don't wanna be having to wake them up iykwim.

Thanks for all the advice and replying

Will let you know what going on in morn.

xx

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alexsmum · 05/08/2006 00:08

ok but do it!!! sorry to nag but concerned!

clairemow · 05/08/2006 08:51

how's it going pucca? If it's still leaking now, it's been nearly 24 hours, and they really should take a good look.. Go in, go in, go in!

SlightlyFamiliarPeachyClair · 05/08/2006 09:49

Hello Pucca?

Hopefully baby has arrived or she ahs gone in, but uif you;'re out there- hello!!!!!!!!!!

flutterbee · 05/08/2006 09:52

Come on Pucca we need an update.

Axolotl · 05/08/2006 10:17

Have had both types, Pucca - first one was a massive gush, second was trickles over several days. I think you need to inform your midwife.
Very best of luck! (Both my babes were 38-weekers too, so you're near as dammit.)

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pucca · 05/08/2006 12:43

Lol sorry i still here, sorry

Had quite alot come away when i wiped this morning, have got a pad on again, i haven't rang today yet, still in denial that it could be fluid it just doesn't seem fluidy enough, not has come out properly just when i wipe.

Gonna give it a couple of hours, my parents are coming up so they can have dd then will ring del suite again, and probably push them to check, put mind at ease.

Thanks to everyone for thinking about me.

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alexsmum · 05/08/2006 12:44

taps foot and purses lips in an annoyed yet controlled manner.

i think you're being a tad silly pucca.

runs away and hides

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pucca · 05/08/2006 12:45

AM... sorry, i bet you are fist waving at computer screen. xx

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alexsmum · 05/08/2006 12:48

put it this way, if i knew where you lived i'd be knocking on your door and dragging you down there myself.

i'm a great one for not taking any chances that's all.i do think you are living in denial land!!!
wht's wrong? is the cot not built yet?

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pucca · 05/08/2006 12:50

AM...No good point of cot not being built

The main reason is, it's a good half hour drive to hospital, and i have to have someone to look after dd if i go in.It just major hassle, and feel stupid if there nothing happening, like on Tues when i went in, plus MW's make you feel like a neurotic mental case for keep ringing and going in iykwim.

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