what is a spontaneous rupture of membranes

[panayiota]

not sure if I want to know yet but I suppose I need to.what is a spontaneous rupture of membranes and what's the opposite? and most importantly do I really want to know or will it make me more scared of birth that I already am?

I am not a native speaker of english so forgive me if it sounds stupid but I am giving birth in London and I want to be prepared for every term I am about to hear at that time-that is if my brain will still be on working mode of course

I believe its your water's breaking....

Nothing too scary, I promise !

The alternative is your waters not breaking by themselves but needing to be broken "artificially" or manually by midwives etc. during labour

spontaneous rupture of membranes just means that your waters break by themselves.

the opposite is AROM, or artificial rupture of membranes, where a midwife or doctor breaks the waters for you. generally using a thing that looks like a giant crochet hook!

When my waters broke it was described as this - mine broke very quickly and strongly in a sudden gush, whereas some people's do more of a slow leak I think.

So it refers to your waters breaking but not sure if it specifically means when they go in a gush or not.

It wasn't scary or horrible - if anything it was quite a nice relief!!

wow fast responce!thank you all!
so its just when your water broke-I was not familiar with the term.anything to do with mebrane sweep though?
thisisyesterday that hook description has made my husband lost his sleep

no, nothing to do with a membrane sweep.

that's something they normally do if you go overdue, ,and it's to try and get things to start off naturally to avoid induction.
basically the midwife will insert a finger and run it all around the opening of the cervix and try and loosen things up a bit

thank you again.it seems I am having bigger problems at the moment,my cervix lenght is smaller and they are conserned I maybe high risk for preterm labor.