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Waters or pee

15 replies

NoSleepAllStress · 08/09/2019 19:24

DS fell and screamed so went and scooped him up when I did I felt a gush. Dosent smell of anything and no further leaking. It was enough to have to change trousers. Have a midwife appointment tomorrow should I wait till then?

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Flyingkites123 · 08/09/2019 19:37

Ring now xx how many weeks are you? It's probably nothing but you'll no doubt loose a night if sleep with worry if you don't ring about it.

NotSoThinLizzy · 08/09/2019 20:29

32 weeks appointment is at 9.00am in the morning. To get me seen now would take hours. From my understanding they wouldnt be able to do much anyways

squeakybike · 08/09/2019 20:31

I've been having the same problem but only 26 weeks. First time it happened I questioned it but I remember waters breaking before felt very different. Turns out I'm super incontinent 🥴

Miljah · 08/09/2019 20:35

How easy would it be to talk to someone tonight?

If not it is my, not-very-medical opinion that if your waters have broken the baby needs out within 24 hours. Which does give you til tomorrow morning, and your appointment.

Sorry for the inevitable stress the worry puts on you!

I have no idea whether the experts, upon discovering that you have lost some water, not all, can keep you on bed rest etc as long as the baby isn't in trouble, or if they need the baby out now.

Monitor kicks as well.

Thinking of you and everything crossed that it was a random wee!

NotSoThinLizzy · 08/09/2019 20:57

Would need to travel an hour to get seen if they wanted me in and that's only a midwife lead unit. Baby is kicking away like normal no pains. DS is in bed and wakes regularly for boob and will flip if I'm not here.

nataliemum25 · 08/09/2019 21:07

If your waters have gone you will need antibiotics and probs medication to mature baby's lungs, that's what happened when my waters went at 24 weeks with pregnancy 6 years ago x

sycamore54321 · 08/09/2019 21:12

IF there is any chance your waters have gone at 32 weeks, you must seek medical help urgently. Not tomorrow, now.

If it’s not your waters, fine, you’ve been inconvenienced. If it is your waters and you seek help, they can monitor you for early Labour, give you antibiotics to prevent infection, give you steroids so your baby’s lung development can be accelerated and your baby will have much better chance of survival and good health if born early. If your waters have gone and you don’t get medical help, you risk potentially serious infection for both you and the baby, premature birth without benefits of steroids, etc. Nothing good will come of waiting.

This is serious, very serious. You should seek help now.

You could check the liquid to see if it smells of urine or sweet-smelling, but this is not a reliable indicator. Please please go to your emergency unit.

littlemissalwaystired · 08/09/2019 21:14

Don't wait until you see your midwife, you need to go and get checked out tonight. Your midwife won't be able to confirm anything in clinic anyway and will be sending you into triage so you might as well go in now.

sycamore54321 · 08/09/2019 21:44

And I should add a few hours can absolutely make a critical difference to things like antibiotic effectiveness and getting the full course of steroids - which have to be administered at certain intervals apart. It is absolutely better for you to be in the relevant maternity urgent triage at 10pm tonight, than to be in the midwife appointment at an MLU at 9am tomorrow. You don’t need a midwife tomorrow, you need a doctor tonight.

Please say you are on your way.

afternoontwee · 08/09/2019 23:17

Give them a call and put the decision to go in in the hands of the midwives. When my waters went the unit was super busy and they asked me to come in for a check 8 hours later because I wasn’t contracting and I was full term. If i was contracting or earlier in pregnancy they would have wanted to see me. You need to get checked for your baby’s sake.

Blahblahblahnanana · 08/09/2019 23:23

Your community midwife will refer you to the hospital as you’ll need to have an internal examination to confirm if it’s your waters.

So, I’d give the hospital a call and wear a maternity pad if you’ve got one as normal sanitary towels soak up the fluid and it’s difficult to tell if it’s urine or amniotic fluid.

SandyGusset · 08/09/2019 23:30

How often does a wee come out in one big gush?

I mean... that doesn't sound like wee to me.

NotSoThinLizzy · 09/09/2019 07:31

Never thought it would be happy to report to strangers on the internet that it was pee 😂

crazymuseummumtobe · 09/09/2019 08:32

Glad to hear it @notsothinlizzy!

Miljah · 09/09/2019 08:57

Good!

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