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Please help/advise - think I am leaking water - 2nd Trimester

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HellHathNoFury · 02/04/2009 18:59

TMI alert btw.

I am 20 weeks PG and have been leaking fluid - which I believe to be waters - for about 4-6 weeks now.

This is my second PG and I had had this sensation before, when my waters broke - they 'trickled' rather than gushed and this feels exactly the same.

The reason I am posting now is because I had kind of assumed 'it would all be ok' as you do! But today it seems worse than normal.

I am still peeing normally, am otherwise healthy, can feel baby moving and kicking, but also finding in this PG that I am a lot less physically able than before.

The leaking is constant and all day, ie, it doesn't get worse if I cough/sneeze or anything.

Is this common? I was so bad today I was feeling like I had wet myself all day, is it likely to be waters so early on, or pressure on the bladder? Aside from going to the GP (which I plan to do), is there anything I can try tonight that might put my mind at rest?

Sorry long post!

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SWMNBF · 02/04/2009 19:07

Go to your maternity unit and ask for a scan or ferning test to find out about your waters.

This happened to me, it meant 8 weeks bedrest but a healthy baby at the end of it. You really need to know whether there is a leak or not, and perhaps get antibiotics and steroids - the GP won't be able to do much but send you to the hospital, so go straight there!.

Miamla · 02/04/2009 19:08

you need to talk to your MW. one of the things she will probably suggest you do is to wear a sanitary pad. this will help her identify what the fluid is

i almost had my baby at 27 weeks because i was leaking amniotic fluids. a friend of mine had her baby at 34 weeks for the same reason

you NEED to see a MW as soon as possible. in fact when mine started at 27wks, i went straight to the hospital on my MW's advice. i don't want to scare you but i do want you to realise that if it is amniotic fluid, its serious!

arena · 02/04/2009 19:10

Hi, i am 21 weeks pregnant and i thought i was leaking amniotic fluid.

So i purchase a amniotic fluid detector, which put my mind to rest, when i tested at home i was'nt leaking at all. It was my urine that was leaking now and again.

You can order it from; mumstheword.com. And you can get next day delivery to.

If your really not sure do contact your midwife.

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HellHathNoFury · 02/04/2009 20:19

thanks v much for the advice - arena I am going to buy a kit now.

The trouble with going to the hosp is that there is no parking there and it's a 20 minute walk - I am really suffering this time round and try to limit visits as much as I can!!

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arena · 02/04/2009 20:30

Let us know how you get on.

BabyBaby123 · 02/04/2009 20:42

how come you've been leaving for 4-6 weeks and haven't seen anyone about it

You really need to be seen - like NOW.....

LuluisgoingtobeanAunty · 02/04/2009 20:46

sorry, but this is nonsensical. you think you are leaking amniotic fluid, so you buy a kit off the internet , rather than seeing a MW???

you can have small leaks during pregnancy, they need to be checked out and documented.

i think this is even worse than the home dopplers

it might be difficult to get to the MW, but i thikn some things need to be checked by a professional

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HellHathNoFury · 02/04/2009 20:55

I haven't seen anyone about it as I thought 'it would just go away'.
Please don't tell me you have never done that, people do.
Especially when every time you call the Ante natal clinic they find reasons not to see you, or bring your appointment forward, or bother with you at all in their extremely busy schedule and you are just someone else tarring their landscape.
Unfortunately I have been assigned the conveyer belt of ante natal clinics in London and I have called 3 times over the course of the pregnancy for various niggles, they refer me to GP, GP refers me to them, they say is it an emergency? if yes go to A&E otherwise see GP.

And so 'hoping it will go away' and buying a kit off the internet seems easier than struggling, being fobbed off and walking 20 mins up a hill with a heavy 2 year old in a pram.

It might be nonsensical. To you.

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BabyBaby123 · 02/04/2009 20:58

sorry but that is ridiculous. It couldn't possibly get more serious than your waters leaking for 4 weeks at the stage you are at!! To be blunt you are putting your unborn baby's life at risk - if it were born now it would not survive. I think I would rather struggle with a toddler/pram etc than risk that to be perfectly honest. If it were me I would be sitting in A and E the very same day it started, regardless of anything else, not posting about here and ordering kits, sorry

Ohforfoxsake · 02/04/2009 21:25

Sorry I can't say anything to reassure you tonight, waters can leak and you do need to get it checked out as soon as you can. But you know that already. When is your 20 week scan booked in for?

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HellHathNoFury · 02/04/2009 21:27

20th April.

I tried to get it brought forward but they wouldn't.

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TheNatty · 02/04/2009 21:29

piss of the lot of ya, leave the poor girl alone.

Ohforfoxsake · 02/04/2009 21:35

That's shit. You are going to have to go and make a lot of noise about getting seen and NOW. There is no way they can fob you off, but you need to muster the strength to go into battle if necessary.

I know its hard and seems like a huge effort, but you are going to have to do it and do it tomorrow.

IwishIwasmorechocolatey · 02/04/2009 21:36

Please, please get yourself seen by a mw asap.

And let us know how you get on.

BabyBaby123 · 02/04/2009 21:37

why wouldn't they? i'm sorry but i can not believe that any ante natal service would be that incompetent. Have you told anyone your waters are leaking????

TheNatty · 02/04/2009 21:40

sorry but in london they are like that.
i thought mine were leaking i got told not to bother coming in unless it soaked a whole pad.

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HellHathNoFury · 02/04/2009 21:41

I have just been exchanging emails with work, they are ok for me to take day off, DH is going to do nursery runs etc, so I am going to go to the hosp.

SWMNBF is totally right, no point seeing GP, I think I have more facilities in my bathroom so will go straight to hospital as I suspect if it IS water I'll need a scan maybe.

I was aware it could be serious - and I wasn't undermining potential seriousness, in my OP I said
"Aside from going to the GP (which I plan to do), is there anything I can try tonight that might put my mind at rest?"

I did plan to go!!
Just hate going... the people there are so busy and so rude, they are so unhelpful, I am just a number and it's SO hard to get there.

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LackaDAISYcal · 02/04/2009 21:43

fury, call them tomorrow sweets, you know you need to. Or even better pitch up there in the morning after you've dropped DS off at nursery.

what's with the faces babybaby123?

someone posts looking for support, they don't need a lot of faces. She isn't a troll if that's what you are implying? and yes it's easy to think it might go away and to think that perhaps it was just wee and it's taken this long (busy life etc) to realise it might be more than that. I also think the OP is aware of what it might mean.

BabyBaby123 · 02/04/2009 21:43

i'm in london and have never experienced unhelpful ante natal staff throughout any of my 3 pregnancies TheNatty

Ohforfoxsake · 02/04/2009 21:44

She must be making it up then babybaby123 I don't know where you are, but the NHS is pretty stretched in some London hospitals.

I hope you are OK. Sorry there's not more reassurance for you.

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HellHathNoFury · 02/04/2009 21:44

Natty same.

They basically say, if it's emergency go to A&E and they'll refer to us. Otherwise see the GP. So I call the GP who tell me to call the clinic.

I had heavy bleeding early on and no-one would see me, I called EPU who told me to go to hosp, and so it goes on, it's like a maze of referrals. In the end I paid to go private for a scan.

Where I lived before it was so EASY, I'd just call up and get seen same day. Since moving here I feel like I am an inconvenience and unless I am bleeding out my eyeballs to stay at home.

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BabyBaby123 · 02/04/2009 21:44

i'm not in implying anything, i just find it amazing that someone get let something like this go on for so long, that's all

LackaDAISYcal · 02/04/2009 21:45

cross post. I hope it's just your bladder giving up the ghost, and that you can get some sleep tonight.

TheNatty · 02/04/2009 21:46

well what hospital are you at cos ive been to 3 DIFFERENT hospitals and had the same blase crap treatment. no wonder women "hope it will go away" because u have to battle so hard to get anything in these bloody hospitals.

im sorry but and a thousand back at u, snotty cow

LackaDAISYcal · 02/04/2009 21:48

I find it hard to believe that in some parts of London women are lucky to see a MW twice in their whole pregnancy, but it happens.

she is doing something about it now; surely that is what you should be focussing on rather than telling her she is ridiculous? How is that helping?

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