Midwife accidentally broke waters

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Anyone have experience of this? Had a first sweep for DC3 at 40+6, mainly out of curiosity to see if any progress. She used quite a lot of force as my cervix was still high and broke my waters by accident.

Only hind waters apparently and hardly any leakage since a long walk and being at home.

A bit shocked and upset as I want to minimise interventions and now there is talk of antibiotics and induction within the next 24 hours.

OP, firstly many congrats on your baby.
Secondly, I'm sure that will be people who say that the birth experience doesn't matter really because you have a healthy baby, but it does matter. I really hope you are able to come to terms with what has happened.
It might help to look at it another way: say your waters had not been broken and that you had gone into spontaneous labour at some point, you don't know what that birth would have been like. It might well have not been the ideal drug free, problem free labour you were hoping for. We just can't tell, it's all so unpredictable. Of course you wanted the chance to find that out for yourself, I understand.
It's all just a matter of luck and circumstance. Well done you for pushing him out so quickly though, that's an amazing thing to do and you were in control of that, no one else, try and hang on to that. X

Christina, bigbuttons, thank you. My DH tries to be understanding, but it is the women who have been through it who can truly understand. Your responses have been so helpful.