Where did your waters break??????

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finally plucked up the courage to start this thread....
my waters broke spontaneously whilst getting my daughter dry in the changing room of the local swimmimg baths...
i normally go in a group changing area with dd but for some strange reason when i saw an empty disabled changing area i used that(and before anyone shouts dd has cerebral palsy so i can use this facility)....
unfortunately i had decided to leave my coat in the car(less to carry)so didn't even have my mobile with me and had to ask someone in the next cubicle to phone dh..
chose that moment to have a memory failure and couldn't remember his works phone number...
dd couldn't understand why mummy had suddenly whisked off her trousers and was saying hurry up and get dry darling i need your towel(so had to explain situation as best as possible to a 3.5year old).....
anyway won't bore you all with the rest of the saga but yes it was rather like a "carry on film" and the manager from the baths(he has worked there 20 years and it had never happened before)was just like a loveable basil fawlty !!!
dd promptly walked out of the cubicle and announced to everyone
my mummys waters have broken and my baby brother will be arriving soon...
Let's hear everyone else's story please.....

all over the bedroom floor just as I was leaning over the bed to wake dh to say I thought we ought to go to the hospital ... and I still haven't got a new carpet (3 years later!!!)

Only with dd as ds was a planned cs. They broke when I was going to the loo in hospital! So no mess on m carpets at home! In fact it was a hind water leak and the whole lot went later on when I was in labour.

With ds it was when they cut into the uterus.....and quite a lot!

On the stairs at home as I was carrying a basket of ironing down to do in front of the Australian Open Tennis on the Teev. I was only 35 weeks and it wasn't a 'gush' so I triend to talk myself out of it. I didn't speak to anyone about it for 3 hours. When I spoke to a MW at the hospital and she said come in, I was still convinced that I was going to be told I had just lost control of my bladder. I half-heartedly packed a bag and grabbed my pillow and then drove myself to hospital (DH in Madrid). I left my stuff in the car - only to be told DS was on the way. Later water was gushing out with contractions and every time I moved and I kept on saying Oh Yuck, Ohh Yuuck - the german MW asked what it meant and my DH - who was there by this time had to explain.

At the top of the stairs all over the carpet with ds, they literally gushed all over the place...with dd just got to the hospital and was still in the car, was sitting on a towel, stood up and off they went again...(we'd had the car less than two years, was dh pride and joy, felt guilty at the time as seats were upholstered)...had to walk in the hospital doors with very wet-looking trousers

DS1 was on the hospital bed.
DS2 unplanned homebirth and the broke whilst sitting on the toilet.
DS3 in bed, just a teeny weeny pop and trickle that didn't fload the bed, thankfully.

Quite boring really but very conciderate of my children to not make any mess for me each time

I'm due in May with first baby and am just reading your stories in horror!! Is there really that much fluid? HOW much exactly!? Oh god. good idea about the shower curtain secur. was wondering how to avoid buying a sheet - and we have an old shower curtain sitting under the bed right now!

Mine never did break. Even during the induction when they tried to do it, they couldn't for ages as DD's head was in the way. When she was born she even had some little nick marks on her head where they had tried

Good luck Eqypt and don't worry. It isn't so bad. I leaked for a month and got by. There isn't that much, really. Hope for somewhere like ASDA or Tesco. They usually give you free stuff!

Egypt I feel exactly the same way - due March/Apr and we are in a rented flat so terrified of completely trashing the bed/carpet.

Mine broke at home but after a sweep that morning. We'd just had new carpet put down (i know how daft that sounds but had been living with bare boards so I was determined to get it done for the baby) and I spent all morning trying to mop them up while more kept coming. Still kept gushing hours later all the way to the hospital. And while standing at reception in delivery ward. For some reason I thought it would be really stupid to wear a sanitary towel when arriving to give birth so ended up looking as if had wet myself... but no-one had told me that they just keep coming, I'd thought it would be one gush and that would be it.

Ds1 waters broke by midwife- ds2 and dd1 (Twins) waters broke in friends house on her new sofa...towels and buckets were not at the ready...rest came in ambulance..so much fluid..too much info..

Nobody knows. I was in the hospital at the time, in labour, but a nurse came by while I was on the floor on a ball, decided to change the bed while I was out of it, and discovered my waters had gone at some point. Probably lucky, as they ended up timing it at 6am, because that was when I got out of bed. It was probably more like midnight, but that would just have made the hospital panicky 6 hours earlier. I just leaked for the first 20 hours or so, I didn't gush until much later.