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Childbirth

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

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Were you doing something when your waters broke or did they just go?

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Bky · 26/02/2008 10:41

Not sure if title makes sense, what I was trying to ask is....when your waters broke was it as a result of doing something, such as standing up, sitting down, sneezing, turning over in bed, lots of movements from baby etc. etc.

Or were you just sat still watching tv and they went?

In my first pregnancy mine didn't go until well into labour and can't really remember how it happened.

Just wondering what other people's experience's were, am 38 weeks at the moment and feeling strangely obsessed by the whole waters breaking thing so please humor me.

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themildmanneredjanitor · 26/02/2008 10:41

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scorpio1 · 26/02/2008 10:42

mine were broke first time; 2nd time they went about 10 mins before baby appeared.

jellies · 26/02/2008 10:44

In the hospita;.. got down on the ground with towels to clean it up I was mortified.. DH thought it was hillarious so did the midwife!

IdrisTheDragon · 26/02/2008 10:45

With DS I was asleep and had a really vivid dream about two snooker balls knowcking into each other and woke up in a pile of broken waters (luckily I was in hospital anyway due to pre-eclampsia so they went all over the hospital bed).

With DD I think they were broken somewhere during labour.

Peachy · 26/02/2008 10:49

Pushing- with all 3 labours. Apparently (and I may remember this worng) whether your waters tend to go early or during labour tends to form a pattern due to some kind of enzyme in the waters, so there's a good chance that yours will go in labour again.

jura · 26/02/2008 10:51

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moljam · 26/02/2008 10:54

with dd they went gradually over a week or more-i thought i was wetting myself!i mentioned it to my mum who said you do realise it could be your waters and phoned midwife-dd was born day after
with ds1 and ds2 my waters didnt go.i had planned csections and although they both tried coming from 30 weeks my waters didnt break with either(just had contractions and shows)

mishymoo · 26/02/2008 10:55

Mine started off in bed at about 12.45am as a slight period pain and then a little trickle! Only just made it to the toilet in time for the almighty gushing!

theboob · 26/02/2008 10:56

with my first i had just finished doing "it" second i was pushing her out in the sack,and third they broke them and i had polyhydroses ,so lots of water

Flllightattendant · 26/02/2008 11:00

My first time, they went when I was on the loo - was eating a bowl of mussles and reading lying on the floor, and needed the loo so went, and when I finished weeing it didn't stop iyswim, I shoved a towel between my legs and rang my Dad, and we got to the hosp about half an hour later - just as we arrived I had a big contraction, had to run the length of the hospital because we were in the wrong bit (after all the preparation, something had to give!)
Anyway he was born 8 hours later.

Second time, they didn't go till I was pushing. Ctx started about 7am and he was born at 10.32.

HTH!!

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SixSpotBurnet · 26/02/2008 11:05

With DS1 - they "popped" as I was waking up, but I got as far as the shower before they went properly.

With DS2 - I was standing in the kitchen when they went - but I had just come back from an exhausting shopping trip to John Lewis where for some mad reason I decided to buy lots of new bedlinen and then discovered that it was actually very heavy to carry!

With DS3 - they "popped" on the Sunday but didn't actually go properly until I was fully in labour the next day.

Buda · 26/02/2008 11:08

Mine went about 10.30 at night as I was rubbing cream into my feet in preparation for a pedicure the next day! Dad was in pub, sis was out, DH was in Bulgaria (I was in Dublin!) and Mum had taken a sleeping tablet and I couldn't wake her!

iom08 · 26/02/2008 11:11

Mine went when I was on the loo. I had just finished having a wee but it wasn't stopping. I worried about my waters breaking in public so carried a spare pair of knickers, a very large sanitary towel and one of those maternity pads around in my handbag (big handbag) from about 37 weeks onwards !!

iloverosycheeks · 26/02/2008 11:14

Mine went on labour bed - couldnt believe how loud the pop was! made me laugh and lightened the mood considerably - until next contraction that is!

funnyhaha · 26/02/2008 11:15

First pg: in bed about 3am
Second pg - broken in hosptial to check bleeding not placental

minster · 26/02/2008 13:23

1st - went while I was sat reading, dh & I both heard the pop then were flooded.
2nd - was an elective section.

Rosa · 26/02/2008 13:31

Was sitting watching a film - stood up and whossh ( no pop). Changed trousers had a cuppa stood up and lost more. Had to go to hosp in trousers that were too small - My only thought as I was going to hosp was I hope they keep me in so my trousers can dry out !!!! Then it dawned on me that I was going to probably give birth in next 24 hrs !

lollipopmother · 26/02/2008 14:05

When someone has a c-section where do the waters go?

nezelette · 26/02/2008 22:47

Mine when as I was sitting on my birthball in front of TV. Big "POP" sound + feeling and then The Flood, Old-Testament-style. I was overdue and SO happy it was happening! Called my mum while standing in the bath tub!
Things I had just done that might have helped:

Massive hot curry
Sex
Sitting on birth ball a lot and getting lovely massages from DP (=oxytocin release etc.)

pedilia · 26/02/2008 22:52

With all three mine went in labour while pushing so I am assuming it will be the same this time round.
peachy- thats interesting to know

jezzemx · 26/02/2008 22:59

With DD1 they went while I was lying in bed at 3am. She was a few weeks early and I didn't have my bag ready.
My nighties needed ironing so I ironed them, while I was dripping!! I kid you not
I refused to be admitted to hospital with a creased nightie.

Pesha · 26/02/2008 23:06

You iron your nighties???

With dd mine were broken by MW during labour to speed things up.

DS1 they went in labour 6 minutes before he was born, a big whoosh and he semed to come out with it!

DS2 I'd been having contractions for a week or so. Had been in hospital in morning after they got too painful where they promptly stopped Went shopping, wandered around abit, walked up to school and back but nothing was happening so I went to bed for a nap and was just dozing off when I was woken up by a big pop and a whoosh of water everywhere!! Although turned out it was only hind waters, in fact I'm not sure MWs really believed they had gone Felt another pop about 10 15 minutes before he was born but mw didnt believe me again because there was no rush of water - his head was blocking it so it all came out as he did! MW was very surprised when he came out, I wasnt, I knew all along what was happening!

minster · 27/02/2008 08:13

When you have a section they make a small incision in the skin through to the uterus then stick the sution tube in so that the amniotic fluid is sucked up as the surgeon extends the incision.

PortAndLemon · 27/02/2008 08:18

I was getting out of bed when they went with DS.

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