Water breaking confusion- amniotic sac

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Hi,

Wanted to get some advice on a very strange last week I have had.

I am currently 19 weeks pregnant. I have had 4 previous miscarriages (all within 10 weeks). I had started IVF when the doctors realised I was actually pregnant this time, the pregnancy test before treatment may have been too early. Thankfully the initial hormone injections did not stop the natural pregnancy.

Pregnancy took a turn for the worse 72hours ago, I felt a small gush of water, followed by a smaller leakage one hour later. Went to the hospital around 7 hours later, no leaks in this time, swab test was carried out confirming my water had broken.

The doctor rather unsympathetically gave me two options, wait for natural labour or get induced, either way the baby would not survive. After waiting around, doctor got some advice to do a further scan 2 days later.

The next say I was seen by another doctor, by this point it had been over 24 since any leaks. Due to this the doctor did another swab test which this time came out negative, no amniotic fluid detected. She then done a very quick ultrasound showing a healthy level of water.

Doctor believed that there may have been a small tear in the sac which resolved itself. I was discharged and told to wait for my full 20 week scan, which is in a few days.

I wanted to ask if anyone had ever had a false positive from a swab test when checking for broken waters? It is now over 72 hours since I last leaked, signs are positive but worried that perhaps there is still a tear and water is dripping very slowly(pad and underwear have been dry when I have checked).

Apologies for the long post!

Hi there. This didn’t happen to me, but I wanted to let you know I’m thinking about you and I hope you get answers soon

Not heard of false positives but it’s possible I guess. But I do know that fluid levels are replenished so if the tear reseals (which can happen) then things can progress well.

Says here false positives are possible if an infection, or blood or semen in the sample www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/premature-rupture-tests#:~:text=A%20blue%20strip%20means%20it's,can%20produce%20a%20false%20reading. www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/premature-rupture-tests#:~:text=A%20blue%20strip%20means%20it's,can%20produce%20a%20false%20reading.]]]]

Thank you everyone for your responses, most appreciated.

I have my full 20 week scan on Monday, so hopefully will get some more answers. Will send an update.

Gosh how worrying this must have been.
Wishing you all the best

I had similar at 24 weeks with my first, gush of fluid and the consultant could see pools of water on an internal scan, he thought it was a slow leak from my hind waters, it did resolve and I went to full term. Hope all goes well on Monday

Thinking about you OP.

I had a water leak when I was 18 weeks pregnant but that was 22 years ago. Stood up to a large gush. If hospitals were able to swab then they definitely didn't, however they kept me in hospital in bed for a week and did several scans. They seemed to think I'd lost hind or fore water( I can't remember) but that it resolved itself. I have a 6 ft 2 22 year old son now though. I was terrified throughout it was going to happen again but so was well. I'll cross my legs for you.

Thank you everyone for your kind messages and advice!

Thankfully at the 20 week scan there seemed to be enough fluid in the sac, however they are still concerned about a possible small leak. I am booked in for another scan this Thursday and again 4 weeks later. Since my initial leak, I have had the odd day of smalls amounts of clear fluid leaking. Difficult to tell exactly what it is.

Unfortunately it is just a case of monitoring and having regular scans to make sure there is enough fluid!

Hi, just wondered if there was an update on this as, I have just experienced the same thing. I had a cervical stitch to mitigate against risk of pre term birth but was then told that the procedure had caused my waters to break. I was terrified of going in to labour as I'm only 24 weeks. I spent a week in hospital and they now think it could have been a false positive. They had to remove the stitch and I've now been put on bed rest. I'm hoping the rest of your pregnancy went well and you made it to term.