What is it like when your water ‘breaks’?
Thursday, December 31st, 2009 at
2:12 am
Is it a large amount of liquid at once, or is it a slow trickle?
I am just wondering because I am currently doing clinical hours in a hospital an hour away from my ‘home’ hospital. I am packing a bag to change in case my water breaks or I go into labor at my clinical site.
I was wondering if my change of clothes would be enough or if I would need some towels to sit on for the drive to my delivery hospital.
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Well lets just say it is like Hover Dam breaking open.
it can go either way! Mine was a sudden gush…but my cousin had a trickle starting at 26 weeks and had to be hospitalized!!
at our childbirth class they said it could be a gush or a trickle. depends if the bag is blocked by the babies head then it will be a slower trickle. bring towels just in case
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Mine trickled out so I just needed to wear a pad. Some people’s gushes out…and some doesn’t break at all and have to be broken at the hospital.
for every women its different. My water broke with a gush. I put underwear on and super heavy duty pad in it. Well I made the mistake of sitting down waiting for my ride, WHen i stood up it gushed even more i had to change my underwear and pants agian. Once your water breaks it keeps going. For some women its a trickle but mine was a gush!
Mine started out as slightly wet undies (I just thought it was sweat). Then, as I was standing in my kitchen making muffins, there was a gush (I could feel it….and the only word I can use to describe it was gush), and my underwear were soaking wet. It trickled a little down my legs, but it wasn’t like I had a puddle on the floor between my legs.
You would probably want a towel and maybe a garbage bag to put underneath the towel.
ok mine was like a gush of fluid coming out every second. so it was like gush, stop gush, stop gush… i sat on the toilet til it stopped gushing out, then it trickled and small gushed, so i wore a pad to the hospital it worked fine. but if you want to bring a towel that would be a good idea too.
it was like i was peeing my self and coulnt stop, after that it was a intermitint trickle. i would say pack some pads or depends diapers (i used thos on a tip from a friend. they worked great for bleeding after ward, i didnt have to worrk about leaking
anyways some pads or depends if your water breaks, but not all does, i think its 20% . mine broke 2 hours into labor. the pains were less then menstral cramps … at that time..
I was sitting right next to my best friend when her water broke. At first she honestly thought she peed herself…then she pushed her chair back a little bit and it was like niagra falls. My sis in law told me the same happened to her, lol. So I would have towels in your car, just to be safe, lol. My husband keeps telling me that for like the last 2 months of my being pregnant (im not yet but we’re gonna start ttc) he’s gonna keep my seat n my side of the bed covered, lol.
All I know is my own experience. It was sudden. But the quantity was not really that much. (It feels like more if it suddenly happens!) But the quantity is really just a cup or two of liquid.
I’d throw a towel into the change of clothes bag. That’s all you will need.
Happy delivery!
sorry not real sure, but should be in a book somewhere im guessing sorry could not be of more help
For me i had this cramp(contraction) in my stomach and so i got up to go to the bathroom and it was a big gush..and every step i took more came out..i had to have lots of towels..lol
It depends..It can be a trickle or a rush or a rush then some trickle for a while after. I had mine broke and it was a rush of warm water then for like an hour it would leak out here and there..I would bring a towel..That’s what I sat on in the hospital for a while. =)
Good Luck!
My water never broke. I was 8cm dilated, been in labour for about 4 hours when i finally got to hospital my midwife had to break them for me. She said that she once delivered a baby that was still inside the amniotic sac.. no idea how that would work
Usually a gush and then you leak everytime you have a contraction.
it s like peeing ur pants but its gonna hurt