a couple of questions about waters breaking?

[harley85]

Hi,

just had a couple of quick questions?

1. i've heard when your waters go that u cant have a bath because of infection? is this aslo true for showers or is the bath just because your soaking?

2. Can u 'know' when your waters are going to break? do you get some kind of pain or feeling?

feel silly for asking but with my first DC i had them broke 13 days late.. and didnt even think about these sort of questions

I think the bath thing might be true, but not certain.

When mine broke with daughter, i was in bed, and she seemed to do a really violent kick, and then it felt just like a staple gun going off inside me click click, really strange. Then a big trickle started and continued for about 6 hours. If i laughed it gushed, which made me laugh even more.

With son, they went right at the end just before his head, and with all the pressuere, they shot up the midwife and the wall, husband said it was like a Rhino having a piss

My waters broke with both ds's following a run of what I though were braxton hicks, then a very painful contraction during which the waters went with a gush. As for not having a bath etc that's not something that I have heard, I don't think your waters having broken prevents you from having a water birth for example. However, it might be a risk factor if your waters go very early before the onset of labour.

You can have a bath. I did and I laboured in water too. If you couldn't very few people could have water births! You just can't put oils, foams, soap and other junk in the bath. Just water.

Depends how long there is between the waters breaking and the baby being born. Some studies have shown no correlation between bathing and infection, but prolonged ruptured membranes makes infection more likely anyway so you wouldn't want to do anything to raise the chance of pathogens working their way up there -I even refused an internal after my waters went with the last baby. She was absolutely fine until after the pessary to induce her had been shoved up there a couple of times, at which point she developed an infection. It was 4+ days between waters going and her being born though.