My waters broke at 9pm at night, when I was 35 weeks. I was sitting down, on the phone, I laughed and thought I'd wet myself LOL. But it was my waters and they continued to just trickle throughout my first stage. I knew it was my waters as they were tinged with pink, I say it looked like pink champagne! DH and I were VERY excited, despite being a little underprepared! I had my first contractions exactly an hour later and they were instantly 40 seconds long and four minutes apart.

I might add that I'd broken my foot a week before having DS, so we're not sure if that maybe helped me to go into labour a little early! (All the hauling myself around on crutches etc.)