I would love to hear about how/where your water broke.?

Question

Any intersting stories? I always imagine being in the supermarket and boom. What poor guy has to clean that up? Fortunately last time I was just in the bathroom at home so it worked out great.

I'm just thinking I should put a couple pads in my purse just in case...

Where has it happened to you?

This is really interesting. I didn't realize most people's water breaks at the hospital. Anyone else like to add?

Answer 1

(THIS MAY SEEM GRAPHIC FOR SOME)with my first daughter the doctor had to break it..so very very painful...but with my second daughter.. it broke at home...it was this past super bowl sunday..for the last 2 months of my pregnancy I had severe false labor, and with all the pain I had my sister was the lucky one and had her daughter on the first of feb. ..so anyways i went home hurting(as usual), tried to relax in the tub and finally just went to bed..i didnt sleep well and then about 12:15 I woke up because I had felt discharge of some sort coming out..and I woke up knowing exactly what it was..problem was..I thought I could pee it out...well I had to go to the bathroom anyways...but when I was done peeing I got up and it just gushed out more!!! It wouldnt stop!!..lol..I called my mom and told her what happen so while I was waiting for her i was trying to get dressed...well I didnt figure out until she got there that it would be best if I didnt wear pants and a shirt..just my nightgown...I was trying to figure out when I was dressing in normal clothes how to stick a towel to protect me..but thats when I knew I had to get back in bed clothes..lol..well when I got there, the nurse had to check me with this weird color stick to see if i actually broke my water..I told her if I didnt break my water on the way to the hospital..I really dont want to know what just came out of me...LOL..it was just too funny.. I loved the fact of being able to experience the whole water breaking deal...and I got to 4 cm without medicine..it only took me 7 hours of labor to have my second child(who is 7 months right now)..unlike being induced with my oldest(who just made 5 yesterday) and having the doctor break my water for me...that was sooo painful!!! And it was just too gross then..lol...

Answer 2

Believe it or not 75% of women don't have their water break at all and need it done while they're in labor. And water breaks very differently depending on where the tear is in the amniotic sac. If it's high up, you might only experience a trickle here or there which may only seem like discharge or it could seem like a pee that will never end, lol. Sometimes it is a big gush, but that seldom happens anymore. I've had women come through triage swearing that they had a big gush and we test the fluid to find out it's urine. The baby kicks the bladder and it lets it go without warning, lol. I had one woman come 4 times in one week swearing her water broke, but it was negative for amniotic fluid each time.

Answer 3

I was actually in the hospital when mine broke. I woke up at like 4 am on the big day with contractions that were coming about every 15 minutes. It was my first pregnancy (and only one so far lol), but I just knew it was time. We went to the hospital and they put me in a room, but didn't admit me at that point. Although, I was dilated to about 7, my water hadn't broken yet and the contractions just seemed like they stopped! All the nurses kept saying, "Oh, I guess you thought you were having a baby today, huh?" and "It must have been a false alarm! HaHa!" After having me walk up and down the halls for a half hour or so, they told me they'd check me one last time and if nothing changed, they'd send me home. As I got back to the room and sat on the bed, my water broke! I said, "I told you guys! I told you!"

Answer 4

I was at the hospital and got sent home b/c I really wasn't progressing. I got home and got into the shower - and my water broke! Lucky me. I can't think of a better place for it to break, right? Pads wouldn't have worked for me though... I went throught 2 full size towels before I could even get to the car. So maybe some pads in the purse... and some towels in the car!

Answer 5

For my 1st child, my water broke after I got to the hospital. I wasn't even in the delivery room yet, and once I got there, the doctor kept trying to break my water by inserting something inside of me. I kept telling him it already broke (as if I didn't know) but he kept trying anyway, until a nurse showed up and confirmed my story. For my second child, I was in the hair salon getting my hair done. As soon as I was done, I went to the bathroom and the water just started pouring out. I ran out of the salon and drove home, changed and headed for the hospital. I stopped off at McDonald's first cause I was starving and I knew once I was admitted I wouldn't eat until after the baby was born. Once I arrived, my clothes were soaked again! I went through more than a couple of pads, it was like someone left the faucet on.

Answer 6

I will tell you my friends story. The fourth of July is a huge celebration in my town, were "America's home town". She was due July 7 or something. She really wanted to have the baby before the fourth so she could show her off on the fourth. Well on the third she was still pregnant and she was walking around looking at all the cool things all day. Well on the fourth she was getting ready to go to the parade, and her water broke. She ended up having her 10 minutes before a HUGE firework show. Funny huh?

Answer 7

Mine broke in the morning, but it broke high. Then my baby's head "plugged" me up. I'd only leak when I went from a laying position to standing up, when a little would trickle out before the baby plugged it back up.

This went on all day - with me thinking I was just having late pregnancy bladder problems - until it just seemed odd.

I went into the hospital that night thinking they were going to just send me home with some depends, however, the surprise was on me when they said it was my water.

They had to induce because contractions had not started on their own.

(PS I second what the first poster said - with my second child my hubby & I grabbed a fast-food breakfast on the way in because I knew it might be a long time before eating.)

Answer 8

I have had 4 babies. Only with one did my water break on its own. With the other 3, the doctor broke it for me while I was in the hospital. With my 3rd born, I began having Braxton-Hicks contractions in August but she wasn't born until November 12. I was effaced and dilated for numerous weeks just waiting for contractions to get closer than 5 minutes apart and not stop when I went to bed. It was 5 days past her due date and I went to bed after a normal day of time-able contractions that stopped when I went to bed. I got up to go to the bathroom about 2:45 AM. As I rolled out of bed I felt a dribble that was enough to make my underwear wet and drip just a little down my leg and I thought at first I had waited too long and had peed myself. But, as I walked to the bathroom, more fluid dribbled out and when I sat down to pee, I knew it was more than urine that gushed out. Contractions started in earnest and went from 6-8 minutes apart to 3-5 minutes in a short period of time. We had to take the older 2 to grandma's house and got to the hospital about 5:30 AM. Fortunately she was in a posterior position and that gave us some extra time or I think she would have been born in the car. I had intense lower back pain and uncontrollable shaky legs. She had to have a forceps delivery and was born at 7:18 AM.

Answer 9

I've always imagined being in the supermarket as well!!

With my 1st, the midwife broke the bag when I was 9cm dilated and with my 2nd I was on the toilet at home (like 10 minutes before I had her) and they didnt just pop, they exploded all over the place including my mother who was standing at the door!
So both times, my waters broke just before I had both kids.

Answer 10

My first one I was sleeping in my bed and when I woke up my bed was soak and I didn't know if my water broke till my mom came home from work. I was 20 at the time. And my second when i got home and laying down my two year old to bed. I ekep running to the bathroom. I told my mom that my water broke she said are you sure yes. I was leaking. I knew for sure that time my water broke. I was lucky I was home.