The millionth water breaking question

leowife1110

ive searched and can't find anything on this board.

STMs who's water broke...

A few questions for you....
Was it painful?

Any signs or symptoms before it happened?

How long after did you deliver?

Tia!

southernyankeegirl

I haven't heard of water breaking hurting anyone... and it can happen suddenly, or can follow contractions.

Only about 10% of women will have their water break before going into active labor, so it's far more likely that you'll have contractions first as your primary sign that birth is imminent.

And most medical professionals in the US won't let you go much longer than 24 hours or so after your water breaks if there's no good reason (like PPROM) to keep waiting as the risk of infection is much higher after your membranes rupture.

littleprettybride

Follow-up question along this topic- can the baby break your waters by kicking, punching, or whatever else they are doing in there? (Zumba or something?!)

mikeANDjen448

My water spontaneously broke before any contractions at 34 weeks with DD. Not painful at all. More like a giant hiccup.....

Mrs_Bennett

My water spontaneously broke, and it did not hurt. I felt a pop, then a gush of warm fluid. No warning, I was laying in bed at 39w1d. Contractions started within half an hour, and DS was born 12 hours later.

@littleprettybride‌
I'm fairly certain that DS broke my water, but there's no real way of knowing. He had been relatively quiet for a few days, and suddenly started moving around like crazy--way more than he had in a long time. After maybe a minute of him doing that, I felt the pop.

Maebb

Not painful.

In hindsight, I was having light period-like cramping starting a few hours before it happened. My doctor later told me those were contractions, but it didn't feel bad enough for me to think they were contractions. Those started around 8 or 9pm, but I just went to bed because they weren't bad. Then I got up to pee at 11:30pm, and my water broke. I knew it was that because it wasn't the color of pee and didn't smell like pee, and I couldn't do kegels and stop it like with pee. Then it started getting greenish brownish, and DH recognized that it was meconium, so we called the doctor and headed to the hospital.

The contractions got stronger about 2 hours later, and they got progressively stronger and then DS was born 5:25am the next day, about 6 hours after my water broke.

ConJos_love

I started back labor at 11pm, like contractions in lower back that were time-able my water broke at 3 am. It didn't hurt, but, for me, I felt a thunk and then the rush of water and contractions started within minutes. Baby boy was born at 9:04 am.

honeybeee3

With DS my water broke when I got up to pee in the middle of the night. It was completely spontaneous - there were no warning signs at all. I didn't experience a big gush like some people do, it was a small trickle. It didn't hurt - I've actually never heard of it being painful for anyone. My son was born 28 hours later.

GirlWithAnchors

When you say "spontaneous" what do you mean? Like isn't it always spontaneous?

I had a scheduled c -section with my twins so it's like I'm a FTM where labor is concerned.... Haha but maybe it's a dumb question.

tripletoe

Mine leaked, a solid leak for 52 hours before DD was born. She had an infection and had to be in the nicu. It didn't hurt, but the contractions sure did

ekbrick83

No warning signs for me with my first. Got up in the night to pee and had huge gush, then another and another... Think I went through three pairs of pants! I thought contractions would come soon after but I didn't feel much. Had to be put on pitocin the next morning to kickstart labor. 17 1/2 hours later my girl was in my arms. She also spent time in special care due to infection since water was broken for so long.

mikeANDjen448

@GirlWithAnchors‌ Spontaneous meaning no warning signs (contractions) however small they may be

Bigboneded

@GirlWithAnchors‌ the doctors can strip membranes to try to get bag to break sooner or use a crochet hook thing to pop the bag- I woud think of those situations as not spontaneous... :-)

GirlWithAnchors

@mikeANDjen448‌
@Bigbootykassi‌
Ahh okay makes sense. I hope we have have spontaneous, none painful, none staining water breaks. Lol thanks ladies

lilnatesmomma

My water broke, didn't hurt just thought I was still preeing when I went to the bathroom. Contractions started about an hour later

leowife1110

Thanks ladies!!

Pips09

Didn't hurt at all. I was already in the hospital in labor, so that was the symptom, I guess? I delivered via c-section a couple of hours later.

jennayn

Water broke before any BH or contractions started. Didn't hurt at all... Delivered CS 23 hours later (failure to progress with baby's HR going into stress)

mmooki

Dd- water broke, had no timeable contractions that I could tell as a ftm prior. She was born 4.5 hrs later via c/s because she was breech.

Ds- water broke while I was on the toilet! Haha. I'd been having BH and lower cramping for weeks. He was born 7.5 hrs later - vbac.

GracefulStar

Mine broke, didn't hurt... I got up after sitting a while and felt wet, I was pretty sure I didn't pee myself lol. But I went to the bathroom and sat down again, got up and felt more. I figured it must be my water. We then headed to the hospital. I had no contractions, was not dilated. Gave birth 381/2 hours later after being induced.. I thought they only gave 24 hours but I was happy I got to push baby out on my own.

vjdk07

I stood up from the couch and my water broke. It wasn't at all painful, just startled me. I didn't have any contractions for probably half hour after that. My water broke around 1:15 pm and I delivered my son at 7:02 pm and that was after laboring down for an hour once I was 10 cm.

LadyXaverian

Was it painful? No, not at all.

Any signs or symptoms before it happened? Nope! I didn't feel a single contraction or anything else before it broke. I got up to pee first thing in the a.m. When I finished peeing and stood up, the water kept on trickling and then a few minutes later, gushing.

How long after did you deliver? 18-20 hours later, but by c-section. I dilated to 10 and pushed for 2 hours, but she was stuck way up high and never dropped.

GromMom

I felt contractions around 3 am and since they happened a couple times decided to get water to see if they'd go away. In the hallway my water broke, it just felt like a gush. I labored at home until around 9 am, to avoid rush hour and had my son at 7:43 pm.