Really what are the chances of my waters breaking without warning?

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My mum thinks I should get a plastic sheet for my mattress but I thought you would get some sort of warning first. What are the chances of your waters going in the night with no warning? And do I need a plastic sheet?

Mine went in spectacular style at the supermarket checkout. If there had been any warning I obviously wouldn't have been in the supermarket in the first place...

I went to bed feeling great, felt a kick, heard a pop (so did dh!), realised i'd seen this on telly and it dawned on me what was happening, ran like mad to the loo....it was like niagra falls!!!

With the subsequent 2 pgs i had waterproof pads under and towels by the bed.....my bed is too lovely to be ruined!

DD was breech to may explain the gushing!

I went to bed felt fine too, fell asleep to be woken up about an hour later by a huge pop and a massive leak all over the bed and all over the floor as I ran to the loo!!

With DS1 mine went in the bath, I heard the pop as I was getting out and it was followed by a gush. So much came out that by the time I saw a midwife a few hours later I wasn't actually leaking any fluid any more, and she didn't believe me (she implied that I must have wet myself). Until that is she went to break my waters and realised that they weren't there.

With DS2 I was lying on the bed and heard the same pop, I managed to get to the loo in time for the gush.

Mine didn't gush out. I noticed the plug (?) I think it's called before I had a shower. As soon as I got out of the shower, my waters broke very slowly, I thought I had pissed myself

DD1 my waters broke at home on the newly laid carpet!.

DS2 : in the bath

DS3: had to be brocken in hospital

DD4: Broke the very second I entered the ward

In short , appart from the time the midwife said "I am going to breake your waters Dear" it came unexpectidely every time

With DS and DD1 they broke my waters while in labour so I was totally surprised that my waters broke suddenly with DD2 at 37weeks. We were just sitting down to watch xFactor when I heard a pop, I stood up and I had started leaking, but it wasn't just water, it was blood too.

My Mum took me to the hospital with a plastic tablecloth over the seat in the car. When we got to the hospital, I had a massive gush all over the place - I don't envy the cleaners!

Went to see my best friend on Saturday (she's 37 weeks); I was telling her all about it and we were joking to listen out for the 'pop'. Got a text the next morning, her waters had broke at 2.30 while in bed and she is now the mummy of a new baby boy!!!! (first baby).

So, you never know...

Mine just disappeared! I was in labour and midwife went to do ARM and after a while told me there was nothing there! I did wet myself a few times in the last week. Maybe they trickled really slowly, maybe in the bath? Never worked it out.

Congratulations to your friend PurpleLostPrincess!

My waters did break with a 'pop' and a gush, my baby was engaged so that puts paid to that theory :-)

This is gross and very probably tmi - but if they break whilst you're wearing your knickers, take said knickers into hospital with you to show the midwife.

Mine didn't 'believe' it was my waters going, or that I was in labour as I was 'still smiling.' Then she smelled my knickers, her face changed, she examined me and I was 6cm. But, she said without me having taken the knickers in, she woudl have thought I'd got it wrong and sent me home.

Mine were ruptured by the MW for DS and DD.

With DD2 I felt them go in the birthing pool, had just started pushing.

i woke up at 2am needing a wee, then got off the loo and suddenly water started dripping down my leg thought i had weed myself lol, then a big gush came realised that my waters had def broke and shouted DP quick he got a lovely awakening mopping up around me at 2am haha

When I was in hospital waiting for ds to put in an appearance, I actually heard someones waters "pop" from the otherside of the ward.

Both mine leaked rather than gushed, but DD was unexpected as she was 37 weeks and I really wasn't expecting her to arrive so soon.

BelieveInLife - Oh poo! I was hanging on to the hope that they wouldn't gush this time if he/ she is engaged!!!

Everyone is different but it can happen, so if you feel like you want to get a sheet then do so. With my first baby his head was engaged never had no gush but was constantly leaking water, with my second i was 30+3 when i gave birth, she was breech and my waters didnt break atall she came out to her neck in her sack and then doctor broke my waters. Many people very

the waters smell of baby, hard to describe.
with ds is was more like a trickle, but the smell couldn*t be mistaken for any other bodily fluid.

Hmmm....

So you can have a tiny bit come out at first and then nothing? When I went into labour, this happened to me and is why we went to the hospital. The midwives told me it was probably just a bit of incontinence. I KNEW it wasn't! I never ever had that problem during or after my pregnancy.

In the end, the midwives popped my waters about 15 mins before DD was born.

During labour, great big gush, in basement of hospital on way up to maternity ward. DD born approx 45 mins later. No pop as such, but happened with a contraction, and followed immediately by an urgent need to puuuushh. Memorable for the total panic it brought on realising I was five floors away from a midwife. All fine in the end though!

mine went as I had just got out the bath in the ward, huge amount of water! def go for the sheet

We were told at the antenatal class that if our waters broke when the baby's head was not engaged then we had to get an ambulance immediately. I wanted to know why (it's in case the cord gets washed down with the waters and the head lands on top) but the midwife was very dismissive of my queries.

"Hardly any labours start with the waters breaking," she said breezily, brushing aside any further questions.

Trouble was, my sister's labour had started with sudden waters' breaking, as had that of two friends. And one of the girls in the antenatal classes had hers go in the sodding class! So I did feel about it.

Needless to say mine popped at 3.30am just after a trip to the loo. Baby wasn't engaged so I had to have the full ambulance trip. And then they sneered at me and tried to suggest I had just wet myself. I did my best to explain that a) I had just been to the loo and b) the fluid was leaking from my VAGINA and urine comes from the URETHRA but, nooooo they wouldn't believe me until they had had a look.

Then they said, in a bored fashion "Well we won't send you home as you were going to be induced tomorrow anyway."

I only just stopped myself from saying "Too right you're not sending me home after insisting I come in in a bloody ambulance, and demanding we tell the ambulance man that I must be carried on a stretcher and on no account was I to walk. After making me feel like that sort of an eejit you can bloody well keep me."

[ still pissed off about it after ten years emoticon ]

mine popped (literally) in bed without warning... but for other two went during full on labour.

BalloonSlayer -- I'd been warned to come in immediately if my waters went because DS wasn't engaged, but they never suggested an ambulance. They just wouldn't let me go home once I was there because of the high-riskness of it.

Mine went with a pop at 3am, woke me up! Just made it to the ensuite loo for most of it, but I did have a mattress cover on. Next time I might line the route to the loo with towels too, though, easier on the carpet!

Mine went in the living room (was having contractions already). Then again in the car - huge gush. Then AGAIN at the hospital, another huge gush. Midwife said she'd never seen so much water.