Waters or pee?

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This is probably going to be the world’s most stupid question, but would you know if your waters have broken, or began to leak?

I’m 37 weeks and during one of my many toilet trips last night, I’d peed a small amount then felt a pop and more flew out. I was half asleep at the time but there wasn’t much but it did come out quite fast. It’s not happened since.

The thing is, this kid loves to punch me in the cervix and it gives me that same popping sensation, he actually did it again a bit later but with no leakage. Can I take it he just took good aim at my bladder and forced some more pee out? I’m assuming I’d know if it was my waters but this is my first baby so I don’t know anything really. 🙈

I would ring the midwife, sounds like it could be your hind waters.

If it was your waters and you leave it your both an infection risk!

Good luck xxx

Pop a maternity towel on and lie down for at least half an hour. After you stand up, see if there's any leakage and give it a sniff. Waters have a very distinctive smell, like bleachy sex.

If in doubt, contact the midwives who may ask you to come in and get checked.

Ring triage and they will swap your vagina and they can test it instantly to see if it’s your water.

Thanks everyone. I’m about to call the hospital now. I came into work with a pad on and there’s some yellowish marks on there. I feel like I’ve got trapped wind on and off. I wiped and smelt it last night and it didn’t have a smell which I assumed meant it was okay until I Googled it and it said if it doesn’t smell like pee it could be fluid. Typical that tonight is my leaving meal at work 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

When my waters went, i felt like I had just wet myself a small bit, then I went to the toilet and did a wee, emptied my bladder. When I went back to what I was doing the waters continued trickling so I knew then that was it

Allergyhelpnewbaby, what are they swapping her vagina for? A turnip?

Where do I go to get my vagina swapped please? definitely used condition

How did you get on OP?

Sorry should have been swabbed!

Sounds like your waters by the "pop" feeling. I had this with dd1, labour started shortly after. Dh had to mop the floor in the loo as I felt the pop when I was getting into bed and only just got to the bathroom in time 🤭

Sorry, got back late last night and forgot to update. They didn’t think it was my waters as they’d not continued to leak so I had to lay down with a pad for an hour then move about for half an hour and there was still a bit of something coming out. They got me in just to check, had half an hour monitoring to make sure baby was okay and see if there was any more fluids leaking. There was nothing on the pad whilst I was there so they had a look in the lady cave and couldn’t see anything to say the waters had gone so got the go ahead to come home.

I’ve got to keep wearing pads and monitoring it but shouldn’t be too worried unless I’m filling a pad and they’ve sent a swab for testing. Must’ve been a perfectly aimed head butt to the bladder from the little one.