Waters broke at 25 weeks - being induced today!!

[MrsRose2018]

Hi ladies

You may have seen my posts over the last 12 weeks! Basically my waters broke prematurely at 25 weeks and by some miracle we have made it to 37 weeks today!!

At 3pm today I go into hospital, am being induced and hopefully meet my beautiful boy before the weekend is over (can you say optimism?? 😂😂)

I would like to thank you all for your supportive words and advice to my many many (many) posts and questions these 12 weeks!

If anyone has any induction/labour/raising a child advice for a first time mum please feel free to leave it now! 😂😂

MN has its downsides but you’ve all been amazing xx

God baby land is an amazing place to be!!

Our beautiful boy Finlay was born on the 29 June after 38 HOURS Of active labour at a dinky 6lb!

It was an incredibly hard labour with a failed epidural and being on the cusp of an emergency section and if I was to need another induction I would probably think about a planned section!

However no forceps required, minimal tearing and he's a feisty little 11lb beauty!!

Completely beyond in love xx

Huge congratulations! 🥰

aww this is such a lovely thread to read, my waters have just started to break at 25+ 2 and there hoping to keep my little man in for as long as possible, I'm so pleased you manged to go to full term and have a healthy happy boy x well done you,

@Sazzy312 oh I'm so sorry to hear this! It's such an utterly terrifying thing to happen?

How are you? Are you ok? Are your midwives/hospital looking after you? x

Hi @MrsRose2018 thanks for messaging, its a real frightening time of uncertainty, yes everyone seems to be on the ball and doing all the right checks ect but its just knowing I've got possibly another 10 weeks of monitoring and leaking is not a fun idea, did your leaking ever stop? I've had an hemorrhage eariler in this pregnancy so its coming away slightly with the water so my water is tinged browny old blood so thats a bit of a worry too 😔 but reading your post to see you had a healthy happy baby was so uplifting to me so thanks for sharing xx

Crashing the thread.

Just settling it to my en-suite room at hotel maternity ward. Covid does has its perks because until I'm tested I can't join the ward.

Suspected broken waters. 21 + 4. Pretty scary. Trying to stay positive. Hoping I can also make it to 37 weeks like you OP.

@IamC sorry to read your post, how are you doing? Have you've waters broken?

Hiya

I'll just respond to both :)

It is utterly terrifying and I won't lie to you it won't get any less terrifying!

Have you both had your 72hours observation? That was horrible as it was at the peak of lockdown and my husband couldn't visit me :(

What I can say is you're going to get this really backhanded benefit of PROM because you're going to have medical professionals looking at you and your baby twice a week every week until you deliver! They will check your pee every week and your bloods once a week and you will have your BP and temp taken every time you attend for CTG monitoring! You also get extra scans to check growth and liquor (amnio) volume! So you're literally going for be getting antenatal care like no other!!

My waters didn't stop leaking I'm afraid but I actually just got used to the dampness! You can wear towels but I chose not to as I wanted to keep an eye on my loss.

Have you both had your steroid injections? I'm really sorry in advance btw! Fuuuuucking hell that was an unexpected amount of pain!

Your main things are going into preterm labour (I didn't) and getting an infection (i didn't).

The hardest parts for me - aside from the terror of a very premature baby - was not being able to have a bath or have sex with my husband. Small things but they make you feel abnormal (or they did me)! I also got very sick from my antibiotics they gave me In hospital but that's just me too!

If you can make it past the first 48 hours and then the first week you have SMASHED the odds so I have everything crossed for you!!

Are you both being induced at 37 weeks? xx

Hi @MrsRose2018
Thanks for your message, yes I've had all the injections and antibiotics I'm now over 2 weeks since my waters ruptured, I however could not go without a pad as I leak loads throughout day and night I also had a hemorrhage in the start of my pregnancy which the waters have now affected so means I'm bleeding again, lovely! Just had a growth scan and he seems to be fine bar short legs? Also I dont have much fluid left so not sure what will happen about that, another check up tomorrow I have bloods twice a week so I feel totally brutalised, I've had two stays in hospital so shattered, I dont mind the no sex as with the hemorrhage we weren't allowed so basically since conception we haven't done anything! So I do feel a bit isolated but were very affectionate in different ways and I wouldn't even feel like doing something even if I could, what I miss the most is exercise and being able to go out and have a coffee or wine, that will be my high light next year!
Anyhow yes will induce at 37 if I get there, I'm 28 on Sunday so thats a big goal to get to :)

@Sazzy312 remind me again how far along you are?

So the deal with the amnio as I'm sure you know is that after a certain point they don't need it to breathe/develop! It's just their cushy little water bed and may make them want to come earlier if they're not comfy in there! Also obviously they're at a much greater risk of infection as the barrier is gone!

Also, and again sorry if this is stuff you already know! But soon your baby is going to start topping up your liquor levels with their wee so your numbers may go up a little bit or at least stay the same!

That sounds absolutely dreadful about the haemorrhage! Can imagine how scary it now to see the blood!

If it's any consolation My boy had short legs too!! They were measuring at least 4 weeks behind if I remember but he came out absolutely perfect! The MW said that there can be discrepancies in the plotting of the growth - so one may be generous and the other a bit strict so it's not always a huge reliability! Keep your eyes on it ofc because it can be a sign of placenta deficiencies as the placenta feeds the head and the abdo first and if it's struggling it can cause the legs to lag (so I was told).

Yes me and my husband were the same too! Intimacy comes in many many forms and we just made up for it in other areas!

I missed having a wine as well! I had one glass of Prosecco on my birthday and one on my lockdown "baby shower" that my husband threw for me! I did still drink coffee within the limits though but I totally understand that's a personal choice!

Ohhh the 28 week milestone I remember this!!! It was such a huge relief and celebration for us as well! 2 weeks post PROM!! You're absolutely smashing those odds mamma! You're both fighters!

Good luck with your induction as well! That was a bloody battle and all xx

Hi @MrsRose2018 yes so im 27+4, yes I did read they dont need the fluid to breathe ect but I didnt ask the consultant what would happen if there was no water, I'm trying to drink as much as I can to help but I dont know if that does lol, I'm not sure when my next scan is for the fluid maybe next week but yea 28 weeks is a good milstone to hit so ill be glad when Sunday comes, yes fingers crossed neither of us get an infection the hospital is very good and keeping a close eye on us and I take my temp 4 times a day to see how I'm doing.
Yea I will keep an eye on leg length apparently my placenta is very good and the flow is good so fingers crossed his legs grow or they measure them different and they look longer, she didn't seem to bothered, he is weighting the average 30 week baby so he's a little porker lol but I'd rather him be bigger so he's got more strength if came early.
Yes I dont really want to be induced but if needs be I'll just have to go with it, how was it being induced? Did you still feel in control couldnyiu still have the birth you wanted? X

All the best!!! I am so so happy for you! Hope it all goes well and you meet your handsome soon! Lots of prayers!

So every birth is different ofc and every woman handles things differently so I say all this with that caveat and not wanting to worry you (is this your first btw?)

If I should need an induction again if we have another baby, Im either going to refuse and request a ELCS or I'm going to ask for an epidural very early on!

Having an induction wasn't that birth I wanted in the first place! Unfortunately for me I picked a pain relief called remifentanyl which, whilst it may work wonders for another, completely drugged me out and my labour failed to progress for a long while! I then started being sick and then my boy decided to go back to back and press on my spine/rectum which not only was astoundingly painful it have me false contractions at 5cm (my body thought it was at 10cm and time to push).

None of that is the Inductions fault ofc but that coupled with the added intensity of the pain/contractions that the induction drugs does give you it all got a bit too much and scary at that point. For various reasons I was very nearly converted to an EMCS but thankfully an absolute whopper of an epidural and a rest for 12 hours managed to get things back on track!

This was my first baby and the above things aren't uncommon in labour anyway without the induction but the 38 hours of active labour and everything in between was enough to have made the labour feel very traumatic for me so I wouldn't want the induction again myself!

However, every consultant and MW I saw told me a vaginal birth is "better" for a baby born at 37 weeks (I'm not wanting to ignite the ELCS v natural birth here as if you look on MN that gets messy 😂). Also my boy came out absolutely perfect with no forceps, No episiotomy and my testing was thankfully minimal! So all ended very very well

Xx

Wow thanks for telling me about your experience, so glad it was ok in the end:) hopefully mine will go well

@OP That's amazing, hope you're little one is doing fab! Xcuse my ignorance, but how is it possible to keep baby in if waters breake?? Isn't it the amniotic fluid, which baby is in that's leaks? How would baby cope without it in the womb? Thanks

@CreamyCoffee not ignorance at all!! I had absolutely no idea about any of this before it happened to me!

So up until 22/23 (I think) weeks a baby needs its amnio to breathe/develop! However after that point it's just to keep them comfy and protect them from infection!

You can't really "keep them in" as such, you can only protect them and yourself against infection which is why I was in hospital twice a week every week having CTG monitoring and all my bloods and vitals checked! If we had developed an infection (or god forbid Covid) I would have likely had to deliver!

My waters broke at 25 weeks and thankfully if he were to be born then he had an ok chance of surviving with a huge amount of time and help in the NICU.

x

Hello, this is my first MN post and I am relatively new to the whole scene, so I hope I am not thread crashing or breaking any other sort of etiquette. I just wanted to say that following @MrsRose2018’s story and several other threads of similar journeys has really helped me get through the first week of bed rest (PPROM at 27+1, 28 weeks today). Thank you so much for sharing everything, including the joyous outcome. It helps so much to read these accounts during this lonely, scary time.

Hope those of you who posted in this thread about currently being in similar circumstances are doing well. Sending my best wishes.

@Jaigurudevaom joe are you getting on???

My baby boy is now 9m old, eating solids, nearly standing and I've forgotten what sleep feels like!

I know it's scary but there can be a happy ending xx