Waters breaking

Ok so I'm at my sisters at the weekend and she asks me if I'm worried about my waters breaking in public.

Well I wasn't worried until then!!!

So is this likely to happen? Has it happened to anyone here? What did you do? Was it awful? and many other questions...

i was just putting my DD in the car after being in the mall.
i had a jacket in the car, tired it around my waist and drove home quick as i could.
it was werid as it did'nt happen with dd, but i was thinking yay iam gonna have a baby soon.

Mine broke in the car on our way to the hospital. I had been worried about waters breaking in public and carried a towel in my car, which I was sitting on when my waters broke.

From what the MW said at antinatal classes only 15% of waters break before contractions start and then most of those happen at night in bed or on the loo. I'm not too worried about it. I guess if it happens, it happens. Wont be the most pleasant thing but worse things could happen.

Mine broke on the loo, I had just been to toilet (tmi but contractions sometimes make you empty out). Then I had another contraction and the waters broke. I suppose the feeling is much the same as when you feel blood come out with a period except it is a lot more and definitely a gush.
I think its only something like 5% of women who have spontaneous rupture of the membranes most others either happen during active labour or are broken by a midwife/doc.

Mine broke while I was on the hospital bed. it felt like blood coming out when AF is there.

I think your mw can give you an idea of the chances... with my first one, my mw told me that most of the time you are in active labour before your waters break. With my second, my mw told me that my waters might break first because of the way the baby was sitting ( a bit prosterior I think).

Both times I sort of heard them break. Its a weird feeling...sort of feels like it should have hurt...but it doesn't.

Im not sure what others were like, but it didn't all gush out for me. There was a definate break and a trickle...(kind of like sneezing and wetting your pants a bit), and then it keeps trickling out .

if you were really worried, you could use those tena pads or a normal supa pad....that would also show you if there was any discolour in your waters too (which is what your mw will ask once they break)

Mine was broken by the MW at the Hospital.

I never worry about it tho....I think it happens in Public...some might go but most would be quite excited....

I had a friend, we went shopping for some last min baby things and we were walking towards farmers when wham...all over the place. She stood there with this Shock on her face. I was shocked too...but I was like holly crap lets get you to the hospital.....

Some ppl went past asking if she was ok and congrats!! Some just looked a her funny!!

Who cares right??

kaiz231 wrote: mine broke on the way back from the toilet at 12am.. i woke up with so much pressure and pain in my cervix- i got up to go toilet and i was so upset when i was walking (make that crawling!) back to bed to find thepain even worse. the moment i got into the room they burst -all the pressure went after that!!!

If mine break at home I think thats what will happen to me, I have HEAPS of pressure down there at times now and its getting worse at night, so I think something similar will happen to me, if my waters break that is.

My mum said her waters never broke and she never had a show with any of us 4 kids, she just started off with contractions.

Mine broke while I was on the toilet. I got up at 3am to go to the toilet, finished wee-ing and then heard a tinkle tinkle noise and knew that it wasn't me wee-ing.[/QUOTE]

Haha this is exactly what happened to me - i was like yay finally!! 4 days overdue