Where did your waters break - any embarrassing stories?!

[lollipopmother]

This is going to be waaaay in the future for me, but I'm hoping to God it doesn't happen somewhere in public! Please tell me your waters-breaking stories!

oh no - public waters breaking is good!! Aim to do it in somewhere like M and S or john lewis - I think they give you free hampers etc!!

Mine are totally boring. Once in bed and once with the midwifes knitting needle!

Oh please don't say they actually stick a knitting needle up there!

I didn't know you got free hampers if you soiled their floors, I will have to remember to hang out in M&S a lot when I get close to the due date, good tip!

First was at home (well my parents house = we were living with them at the time). All over their bathroom floor - it was like Niagara Falls all over again LOL

Second time was more of a steady trickle - which stopped if I sat really still......and that was on my way into church to play for a service......used almost a whole roll of loo paper to make a make-shift pad and played the entire service at the organ with my knees firmly together LOL

Ha FAQ, if your waters had broken fully in church would you have called your baby Jesus/Mary?!

first time got up for my usual 3am wee & felt a trickle down my leg as I crossed the landing. My sleepy brain started to work out that I wasn't incontinent last time I checked & I had the sense to dive into the shower about half a second before the cascade started. Don't believe the tiny puddle you see on the TV. I couldn't believe the amount of fluid that came out, it gushed & gushed for a good two minutes & I'm not joking. If you've ever seen a cow weeing, then that is the closest thing I've seen

second time round didn't know much about it as they sucked it all out in theatre during my c/s.

LOL at cow weeing
mine broke in bed then all over the bedroom floor at which point my DH had asked me 'are you sure its your waters??' i had excess waters so i was pretty sure that it was the waters as i usually hold in the waterfall wees til i get to the toilet!! some was also still in there by the time i got to the hospltal and i sat down waiting to be seen and WHOOSH loads more came out much to the horror of th man sat opposite me!! that was a bit embarrassing as he stared at me with disgust as if i had peed all over myself!!
xx ei xx

Well it is not exactly embarrassing as such..

I went upstairs to the toilet as I felt like there was more diarrhea coming on. The phone rang and it was my sister. My hubbie brought the cordless phone upstairs to me on the toilet. I chatted on the phone whilst on the loo Sister, who had a baby in feb, was giving me advice and asking how I was. Then suddenly my waters broke and there was this gush of water which splashed into the loo. i said to my sis "what on earth is happening to me ?". my sister said "looks like you will be a mum sooon, get yourself off to the hospital".

then it all went from there..

Exploded on the loo at home, huge POP! so much force that they splashed right up the wall! Wouldn't have been so bad (white wall) if my waters weren't dark green

The baby was born 90 minutes later in the bedroom. Midwife got there just in time!

All over the floor of the ambulance on the way to hosp with ds1 (midwife had called it as I was much further along than she was expecting - I guess she should have believe dh when he said it seemed to be going quite fast ).

Rohan - oh God, are your waters supposed to be green?!

Mine broke in my friends husbands car - all over the front passenger seat! I was mortified. Was only 32 weeks and my friend had insisted on taking me to hospital to get checked for a water infection. I wanted to drive myself but now so pleased that I let her drive as DS arrived just an hour later. Spent journey to hospital in mad panic!

Ds1 - in the toilet
Ds2 - in the midwife's face

Sainsbury's carpark, with a trolley load of shopping and a 20mth old toddler in tow.

My Granny's story always makes me laugh:
She sat up in bed and asked my Grandad why the bed was all wet. He said she must have done a wee. She hotly refuted that, and decided instead that he must have rolled over the hot water bottle and burst it. They spent a good 10 minutes arguing about it before they clicked what had actually happened.

I had a real "thing" about the waters breaking in public/all over our new mattress, but as it happened they didn't go until I was 10cm - all over the poor MW.

Mine is more of a timing thing - 35 weeks pg, busy week at work where I'd been away all week. Decided to have Friday off to go and do some baby shopping finally.
Nice bath, lie on bed etc. Get up, and theres water running down my leg. Go to loo. Catch some fluid. Decided that I wasn't totally incontinent.
Phone birth unit. Get shouted at that I have to go to the main hospital NOW. Or they'll call 999 ambulance.
DH in meeting 2 hours away with phone off. No one else to call. End up calling a colleague in floods of tears, and he drives over manically, worrying that he's going to have to deliver a prem baby by the side of the road (takes 45 min to get to mat unit).
Rest of my waters went spectacularly over the v v tired SHO who was examining me to see if it was my waters.