water breaking after established labour has begun

[MummyDuck]

Just out of interest I was wondering how many of you have gone into labour BEFORE your waters broke??

How close were contractions before your water broke and did youy go to the hospital before they broke??

My DP has been sitting around waiting for the baby to engage and was surprised when I told him that she didnt need to before I go into labour it can happen when I do go into labour..... he is worried now because I have been having all these pre-labour symptoms and he has booked in meetings for the next two weeks at work (I warned him not to)

And I am really waiting for the tell tale water breaking before I worry but it occurred to me this morning after a looooooonnnnnggggg night of pains and no sleep that I probably shouldn't be waiting for water to trickle down my leg and focus more on contractions (which have seemingly subsided in the last half an hour or so)

[rose]

my waters have always needed to be art/ broken. 2 out 3 where when I was at the pushing stage so don't rely on the water breaking first.

[MantaRay]

With my first, I had been in established labour for about 2 hours by the time I got to hossy. There was a fill-in ob there and he broke my waters without even telling me he was going to .

With my second, I lost my plug at the same time that I started to feel the need to push - I was fully dilated by that point. My ob then broke my waters but in hindsight I wish she hadn't. I have just recently read that you can birth babies without the waters breaking. Although chances are it would have happened naturally about the same time she did it anyway.

[PinkPalace]

Hi smudgie

I was fully dilated (10cm) and my waters broke then. I wasnt allowed to push yet (due to being in a ambulance and only 30 minutes from the hospital).
So yes wouldnt bet on your waters breaking as a sign as a lot of womens dont actually berak and need to be broken for them!

As for establised Labour (4cm onwards ) it was about 4 hours b4 my waters broke and bub was delivered 30minutes after

[~clover~]

I read it's only about 15% of women's waters break first. With DD1 mine broke about 2 1/2 hours before contractions started.
With DD2 they had to break them & did it about 5 - 10 minutes before she was born.
With DS my contractions were about 10 minutes apart. I wasn't sure if they were gonna stop or not coz it'd only been about an hour & a half since contractions had started, but I only had about 5 hours of labour.
Everyone is different & every labour is different. You just never know.

[*becstar*]

Same as PP. Out of a 5 hr labour my waters broke with Jacob just 30 mins before he was born. And that's the first time ever! lol. Other times they were broken.

[MantaRay]

I think I've read that water break before contractions about 1/4 of the time. Although in movies and on TV it seems to be 100% of the time....

[2girlz]

I think I've read that water break before contractions about 1/4 of the time. Although in movies and on TV it seems to be 100% of the time....

HA HA gotta love movie and TV labours they crack me up now that I have experienced labour. How do they birth such clean babies .
But saying that I had a movie labour water broke at 2am then straight away 5 min apart contractions and bubs was born at 5:47

[Lulu]

First labour - water broken but I was already well on the way.

I can't remember when waters broke with DS but Im sure it was only minutes before he was born.
DD2, I could actually feel the membranes bulge and pop just before he head came out - I was in the water for that one.

So my waters have never broken before labour!

[Visitor7]

First labour, waters broke before labour started. Well labour didn't actually start, I had to be induced.
Second labour, I was already in established labour for 5 hours, was 5cm dilated, and midwife broke my waters, Bub was born 50 min later.

[sneakysparkle]

I lost my plug first and was well into established labour when my waters broke! (I was 8cms!)
All the best for your upcoming birth

[rosehannah]

With two of my three births the waters broke just before I had the urge to push after a long labour, with my third I was induced at 10 days over by having my waters broken. With my 2nd and 3rd bubs I would seem to be awake every night for about a week or more in pain thinking I wish this was it but I seemed to go over due each time. It really is a guessing game when these little ones will come. I wish you all the best, not long to go now

[Naomi]

With bub #3 i went into labour and my contractions started at 3 minutes apart, i'd been in labour for 2 hours and at the hospital for half an hour before my water broke

[The[cookie]Doctor]

Smudgie from what I've read only 15% of labours begin with the membranes rupturing.
I was in labour for 11 1/2 hours before my waters broke.

Contractions went from
8-10 mins apart; 5-9am
5-7 mins apart; 9-11am
3-4 mins apart; 11am - 4:30pm when waters broke
I went to the hospital at 7pm.

I would have been in "established labour" (past 4cm) sometime around 3pm but had contractions steady the whole way through.