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What is it that breaks the waters???
Ok so like really dumb question?! I've been induced twice (due to medicine needing to stop for labor) and fort my hardest to go through without induction this time!!! So what is it that breaks the water bag? Is it the baby? Hormones?? Man I'm in a HUGE fuzz ATM!! Haha ok just ignore me if I dnt make sense!!!
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Leah and Dan
Lucy 5
Minnie 2
Pippi due 29 sept
YOU are what YOU eat!
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my waters didnt break
they came out whole and only broke when the hit the floor- it was just before i was fully dilated!
i think its a bit of everything that makes the waters break- more hormone and contraction related i think
not a silly question- a quite interesting one in fact!!!
be interested in a medical persons response !!
ahem- feebs???????????
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I'm a bit confused - I know babies can be birthed inside the caul (is that how you spell it), did your baby hit the floor too?
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As in you birthed the waters????
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Leah and Dan
Lucy 5
Minnie 2
Pippi due 29 sept
YOU are what YOU eat!
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What's the caul?? I think I've seen a video of that!
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Leah and Dan
Lucy 5
Minnie 2
Pippi due 29 sept
YOU are what YOU eat!
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The caul is the 'bag' which the amniotic fluid and baby are in whilst in the womb.
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My first DD was born in the caul, my exDH thought that she did not have a face because of the bag, then the midwife broke the bag and we saw her face.
It is supposed to be lucky, and you will not ever drown or some old wives tale
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The waters usually break due to pressure from a combination of the baby, contractions and your body.
The caul is the membranes.
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no my waters came out just before i was fully dilated like a water baloon and spattered when they hit the floor- all over my doula and DH feet! LOL. They thought i had dropped something that popped on the ground.
i felt them come out whole - it felt like birthing a baloon lol and then splat like dropping a water bomb on the floor
once they came - that was it- no waters left to leak and bubs was born 15 mins later lol
quite freaky now i have written it down.
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It's not unusual for the membranes to balloon out ahead of the baby like that, I think.
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Yep caul is just a posh word I learned from watching some birthing youtubes and blog sites! Det that sounds pretty dramatic, betcha the doula and DH moved quick smart!
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I had polyhydramnios and my waters were broken by the OB. OMG, it was like Niagra Falls. The poor thing was splashed from head to toe and her brand new cardi was ruined. I bet she wishes she wore a med coat!!
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SOOOO a conclusion on this one???
I thought the caul thing was like a 1 in a billion chance!! Lucky you!!!
Lol @ splashing your OB, I wish I had done that with DD2, the @rse wouldn't stop trying to break mine it took 1 1/2hrs to do, 3 ppl later... Not a nice experience AT ALL!
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Leah and Dan
Lucy 5
Minnie 2
Pippi due 29 sept
YOU are what YOU eat!
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pressure (if not done artificially with a hook)
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Ds punched my membranes and broke them, dd2 my ob broke them and with dd1 it gushed out on the loo, she was bum first so I think it was the pressure of the contractions that I didn't know I was having, ( she was 34 weeks)
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I think I would have to agree with pressure because I felt immense pressure for a week that I could barely stand I thought my pelvic would break. 1 week later my water broke! and I was only a fingertip dilated
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with my first, my waters didn't break until i was fully dilated, and into the pushing phase. i was sitting on the toilet at the time, had only just started pushing, and all of a sudden during a contraction there was a massive commotion in the toilet, and fluids squirting everywhere - my waters had broke under the force of the contraction, and had sprayed into the toilet like a high-pressure hose. myself and my DH got such a fright with the suddenness and the noisiness of it all, and my DH actually said to me "that baby isn't in the toilet is she?!" he thought she had come flying out there was such a commotion!! with my second baby the cheeky Ob broke my waters with a hook WITHOUT my permission because i was 7cms dilated when i arrived and he examined me, and he was heading off to do an emergency c-section in theatre and wanted me to deliver soon after he was finished that, and thought breaking my waters would speed the process up. it was a yucky feeling as i was on the bed at the time and it all just ran out of me!! anyway, i don't think it did much good, because it was still another 4 hours until my DS was born and the OB had to wait in his car in the carpark until i was ready - he he he!!!
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I think it's pressure. With DD2 mine broke in the shower during a contraction.
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