Did your water break?

nark · December 2008

I just read (twice!) that for the majority of women, your water doesn't really break when you start going into labor. Then my bff's nurse told her that at the hospital where she's delivering, probably 85% of women that come in have their waters ruptured by the hospital staff.

For some reason, this is kind of freaking me out. I mean, all my life I've been led to believe that your water breaking is pretty much how you know you're going into labor. Or that it might even happen well before the contractions really set in. Or that it would at least probably happen once labor sets in, and that it's rare for women to get into heavy labor and NOT have their water break. Is this not true??

Did your water break???

SpeedGlenn · December 2008

My water did not break. I went to the OB for a check up and I was 5cm dilated. Once at the hospital they broke my water. I'm confident that had I not had that appt. that day that I probably would have gone into real labor and my water would have broke on its own.

unc00ref · December 2008

My water didn't break.

I had significant contrx at home, called my OB for a check-up to see how far along I was. When I got to their office I was already 6.5 -- they sent me directly to the hospital, the broke my water there.

elizabethswan · December 2008

Yes my water broke. I was having back labor and that is what told me, hey this is the real thing. I think I would have figured it out pretty soon though Stick out tongue

I think the water breaking image is just from movies/tv

WendyNC · December 2008

Nope, Dr. broke it at hospital after I had been in labor for 8 hours or so.

jenhum · December 2008

Mine did, but I think it's b/c I had an external version the week before.

raceyrae · December 2008

My water did not break. They broke it a few hours after administering pitocin when my contractions weren't really doing anything for me.

MrsSavannah · December 2008

raceyrae:
My water did not break. They broke it a few hours after administering pitocin

Ditto.

mrsmikey · December 2008

Mine broke, at home in bed around 11 pm. I went to the hospital and hadn't had any contractions at all, and wasn't dialated. They were going to keep me there until I went into labor on my own, even if it took weeks. But a few hours later I started having contractions and DS was born at 8:30 am!

MRSGOLABONTE · December 2008

broke when ob soved hands up there 9 hrs into labor

kateland3 · December 2008

nope. midwife broke it after i was induced (when i was at 5 cm, i think). but i'm pretty sure you'll know when you're in labor! those puppies hurt!

SalisburyBride · December 2008

Water broke.

11pm at work working super late with a client - totally freaked her out by the way! I had no contractions or any other typical labor symptoms. DH picked me up and checked into the hospital at 3cm. Contx showed up on the monitors but to me they felt like Braxton Hicks. Started pitocin the next morning at 11:00 after only progressing 1cm on my own. John was born at 2:35pm that day. It wasn't a huge gush, just started as a trickle then more of a constant drip all night - real comfy!

unc00ref · December 2008

Just remembered funny story about mine. When the Dr broke my water, he was on the telephone with one hand, and shoving the hook in me with the other.

jenwill · December 2008

Mine broke at work in the middle of the day (1pm-ish). I didn't have any symptoms that it was going to, and had had no contractions. Drove myself home, picked up DH, and off to hospital. I was maybe 1 cm and never really had any good contractions on my own (only really light ones), so I had to have pitocin to strengthen the contractions so I could make some progress...

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