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Childbirth

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How did your waters go?

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ThePhantomPlotter · 06/11/2009 19:18

Twice now I've had them ruptured by that hook and IIRC it really bloody hurt. If they've never gone naturally before, shall I assume that they won't this time either?

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lovechoc · 17/01/2010 17:33

I felt a 'pop' sensation when lying in bed at home and gush, out it all came! Needless to say, we ended up buying a new bed - the mattress was ruined!

Stocking up on inco pads this time round - determined to be prepared!

diddl · 17/01/2010 18:21

No pop or gush.
When I got to hospital three hours later there was still some there!

princessmel · 17/01/2010 18:24

In labour with ds, with a pop then a gush.

In bed with dd, with a pop, not really a gush, just came out all during the labour.

On the loo with ds2, 2 pops, then a gush in car park and a huge gush when he was born. Not much came out during labour.

galadriel77 · 17/01/2010 18:45

My first DD was born with the waters intact around her head - supposed to be very lucky! She was born in the birthing pool and they had to pop the sac as her shoulders were born.

My 2nd DD was also born in the pool and my waters went about 2 pushes before her head was born. I was mid contraction and pushing really hard and they exploded! It was crazy how strong the gush of water was - I could feel it even though I was already in water in the pool.

I have very long slow build ups to my labours and the midwife did say that this can be due to having "tough" membranes as it cushions everything and takes longer to dilate.

KatDrury · 11/02/2010 16:52

My waters went with a gush. It felt like I wet myself. It continued to trickle out for about another hour.

Morloth · 11/02/2010 17:21

DS's head was born with the membranes intact so when they did go it was under heaps of pressure and I splashed.

Fibilou · 11/02/2010 17:27

I have no idea ! My waters had gone when I went into hospital as I delivered very quickly - we assume that they went in the bath while I was at home.

Horton · 11/02/2010 19:29

Not at all, had mine broken with the hook thing about twenty minutes before DD's birth. I was fully dilated but I don't remember it hurting at all. It was kind of a relief in a weird sort of way.

nappyzonecantrunfortoffee · 11/02/2010 21:36

dd1 at 38 weeks just got back int bed having waved dh off to work and whoosh - i proper papped myself home alone!

ds1 They went in the birth pool as i was in transition - i only know this as the mucus plug popped out like a cork at the same time my old episiotomy scar ripped open - it wasnt the best moment!

Habbibu · 11/02/2010 21:41

with dd they came just before she was born - I think. With ds I was standing on the landing in just a t-shirt at about 2am, as dd needed the loo, and a gush suddenly came. dd turns to look, and says "mummy, you can go to the toilet too"...

ellenjames · 11/02/2010 22:03

dd hook thing and used gas and air as was so painful
ds1 must have gone whilst in labour as didnt notice and was stood up
ds2 sat on the sofa watching a film when all of a sudden heard an almighty pop and weird feeling inside and as soon as i stood up they just gushed everywhere! My husband was sat across the room from me and he heard the pop! Sounded like a bloody bullet! Was quite scary!

JaMmRocks · 11/02/2010 22:13

DS1 broken for me as part of induction

DS2 went with a big pop, from right behind my belly button. I was so shocked I didn't immediately twig what it was, until the drenching of the bed happened

thelittlebluepills · 11/02/2010 22:20

explosive - all over the wall next to the bed ( I was on all fours)

one of the reasons I was so glad of not having a home birth - it was somebody else's job to clear it up

avaj · 18/02/2010 19:55

With a gush and a splash, mid contraction - all over the floor about half an hour before birth both times.

anna26anna · 23/02/2010 17:26

Last time, my waters went just as I had arrived at the delivery suite. I was 4cm, had been labouring slowly for hours and hours with the help of gas and air in the antenatal ward - when I finally passed 3cm they agreed to move me to the labour ward. I was squatting beside the bed through a contraction, vomiting spectacularly all over the floor, when I felt that gush like a bucket of warm water between my legs. I think the midwife was disgusted at having to clean up a mess first thing. I never did warm to her after that.

LittleSilver · 23/02/2010 18:59

Mine went just after watching DH send DD1 down very long steep slide at local theme park by herself.

comeonbishbosh · 24/02/2010 14:10

I was sitting on the loo with contractions about every 3-4 mins (we were homebirthing) when i felt something push down... frightened the life out of me as I thought it was a babies head, the midwife hadn't arrived at that point and DH was downstairs. The waters came out with the sac still intact, so a wobbly ball about the size of a grapefruit. Really weird, I still don't quite understand the biology of it, though when I mentioned it later to midwifes they seemed to know it's possible.

Just worth being aware that this is a possibility because i think it was the most freaky moment of the whole birth for me and DH.

piprabbit · 24/02/2010 14:17

You should be asking 'where did your waters go?'.

Second time round, I'd have to answer that I haven't a clue and we never did find out although the hospital said they were already missing when we arrived.

tanmu82 · 11/03/2010 14:12

first time I had them rupture with the knitting needle thingy because labour had stopped progressing - that in itself didn't hurt, but boy did the contractions after that knock me for six - I just burst into tears when the gush came!

Second time, waters only broke as DD was almost out...

Who knows this time eh?!

bobblehat · 11/03/2010 14:17

First time with the help of a mw and crochet hook in the middle of an induction.

With number 2 about 10 seconds after he came out!

JulesOfTheJungle · 07/04/2010 17:10

I was lying in bed just before 5am and just felt something go as the mucus plug moved. Woke up a very confused partner and asked him to grab a towel which he didn't understand at all until I advised him that if he didn't hurry up we wouln't have much of a mattress left!

Continued to leak for a few hours but the real gush came later that afternoon whilst I was being examined by a MW at the hospital. Just as she decides that my cervix is hiding and of course must be moved there goes niagra falls. The poor woman got soaked as she sat there on the bed with her hand still in situe as it were. She looked up and said "well that's never happened before" whilst I couldn't do anything but laugh.

carocaro · 07/04/2010 17:29

Like a snapping sound and a trickle that tunred into a gush that gushed when I moved about

cyb · 07/04/2010 17:31

with silver bells and cockle shells, and pretty maids all in a row

stuffedmk · 12/04/2010 15:18

MW checked to see how far along I was, waters broke due to her poking around lol, DS born about 20 mins later

MumNWLondon · 13/04/2010 12:39

DD - by accident whilst midwife doing internal exam on arrival. I wasn't dilated at all but within 3 hours was fully dilated, so was glad that it had happened.

DS - shortly after arrival at hospital, pop and gush whilst leaning over beanbag.

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