My waters broke at the stroke of 12 midnight on my DD edd!!!! I had been have irregular BH's for the previous 4 nights between 6pm and 10pm. On the night I went into labour I called the hospital to ask if I could come in for monitoring. They told me to stay at home until I started to have 3 good contractions in a 20min time slot. At this point this was not happening and the BH's had stopped. DH and I decided to finalise my hos bag and then go to bed. I literally laid my head down on the pillow and as the clock ticked over to midnight I heard a pop. I rushed to the loo and niagra falls happened. I could not leave the loo for a solid 10 mins due to the flow. I then called the hos and was told to go in.

Before I got to my front door (1 hour later) I had gone through 5 maternity pads and ended up going to hos with a towel in between my legs.

Got to hos and midwife wanted to check to see if my waters had "really" broken just in case I had imagined it all!!!!! Ok I am blonde and it was my first time in labour but I was pretty sure that my waters had broken.

It was established that my waters had broken, so much so that they could not see my cervix and could not tell how far I had dialated.

Was put in a room to wait and offered a panadol....which I declined.

By 4am my contractions were 3mins apart and getting ouchy