water breaking after established labour has begun

[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

[~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.