Preterm labor/ water breaking. Confused.

alexusleed13

Hi, I'm 34w2d and last weekend I went into preterm labor. I was in the hospital for 3 days and they released me and gave me nifedipine to take for contractions, well testerday I was in the shower and felt like I had just peed, so I went on with my shower and when I got out it happened again so I waited for it to happen again and I caught the fluid in a cup. There was no smell and no color. I know it was not pee. I went to the hospital and I had went to the bathroom and peed and when she did the test strips for the amniotic fluid it came back yellow which if it is amniotic fluid it would've been navy blue. I knew I had not just peed that much and also I was having contractions 5 minutes apart but, when they told me to just go home and take my medicine for contractions I took some of the ph test strips home to test what was in the cup and sure enough when i put the test strip in the cup it turned navy blue as soon as it touched. I'm at a loss of what to do. I'm scared my water has broke or at least leaked but I don't have a doctors appointment til Wednesday. I am not sure if I should take the cup and just head to the hospital or wait for contractions to get bad. I'm just lost on what to do and scared that I'll get an infection if my water has broke and they just didn't catch it. Thanks in advance!

alexusleed13

It kept happening about 3 or 4 times and 2 times on the way to the hospital, I figured it was my water breaking since it kept happening over and over. I didn't think I'd need the cup.

PrimRoseMama

alexusleed13 said:

Hi, I'm 34w2d and last weekend I went into preterm labor. I was in the hospital for 3 days and they released me and gave me nifedipine to take for contractions, well testerday I was in the shower and felt like I had just peed, so I went on with my shower and when I got out it happened again so I waited for it to happen again and I caught the fluid in a cup. There was no smell and no color. I know it was not pee. I went to the hospital and I had went to the bathroom and peed and when she did the test strips for the amniotic fluid it came back yellow which if it is amniotic fluid it would've been navy blue. I knew I had not just peed that much and also I was having contractions 5 minutes apart but, when they told me to just go home and take my medicine for contractions I took some of the ph test strips home to test what was in the cup and sure enough when i put the test strip in the cup it turned navy blue as soon as it touched. I'm at a loss of what to do. I'm scared my water has broke or at least leaked but I don't have a doctors appointment til Wednesday. I am not sure if I should take the cup and just head to the hospital or wait for contractions to get bad. I'm just lost on what to do and scared that I'll get an infection if my water has broke and they just didn't catch it. Thanks in advance!

Take a photo of the strip results, & the sample cup. Go to labor & delivery.

janellepruett

Take the cup and go to labor and delivery at the hospital. Also be warned that you might gave a "dry birth" because of the loss of so much fluid, but I am not a doctor , but the same thing happed to a good friend of mine. Just go in. They might not have understood what you were trying to relay to them the first time.

cinde4

Same thing happened to me about 5 years ago I was told I was urinating on myself so when I got home I put on a pad after about 2 hours of so after I was sent home abig gush came out & bingo it was fluid