Waters broke at 33+4 weeks...

[Frazzlerock]

Hi I'm currently sat in hospital as I lost my waters this morning.

The staff here are being brilliant and have said outlook is really good if I was to deliver now at 33+4.

I was wondering if anyone had personal experience of this and what the outcome was?
We've already lost 4 babies (in early pregnancy) so it's quite a worry!

They've given me my first round of steroids and antibiotics and will keep me in for 24 hours

hahahahha! That made me laugh so much @addler Blood is an interesting colour to be fond of. Tarantino blood? Or we talking possible vampire tendencies? .

I've actually switched my laptop on today to work, but off tomorrow and Fri as planned. I really need to rejig my mat leave and holiday now as I'd planned for a 39 week section date but now it'll be 37 at the latest. I really hope I don't lose all my holiday I'd planned in.
But yes I'm sure I will need to bingeworthy telly to watch. Not sure I'm ready for Handmades Tale! We started watching Katherine Ryan's The Duchess on Netflix which is extremely funny. I love her dry sense of humour.

Your holiday should just carry over so you should be able to use it at the end of your mat leave

@YorkshireIndie We can only carry over max 5 days holiday, although HR have said I can carry over 10 days (which is good of them - I didn't ask) so I won't lose it all.
Our holiday entitlement runs from 1st Jan - 31st Dec so I kind of need to use what I can before end of this year. Although, as I say, I can carry over 10 days if I need to, I just might lose a few more days if baby comes sooner than 37 weeks.

That sucks! I thought the rules are different around maternity leave and annual leave. The civil service lets you carry any remaining leave over if you are on maternity leave. You also accrue bank holiday and annual leave whilst on mat leave

Hey @frazzlerock I had my baby back in August at 34+4, waters went dead on 34 weeks. I was discharged after 2 days then went back in within 24 hours with meconium in the waters (which looks like disconcerting green sludge!). Baby was really healthy and didn't need breathing support, she spent just under 2 weeks in SCBU to establish feeding and maintain body temperature independently. I had three weeks leave booked pre maternity leave and I can take that the other side now, it might be worth looking at the pregnant then screwed website to see if they have any info on it, I'm pretty sure you shouldn't have to lose your leave if you do have an early baby, seems unfair. Fingers crossed you get to 37 weeks.

Hope monitoring today goes well!