In bed or getting out of seems popular! I slept with a pad on and a mattress protector from 37 weeks with both my babies, just a bit paranoid. Also drove around sitting on a waterproof pad to protect my car seats! Hands up anyone who's worst fear was having them break in a store or walking down the street?
My Boss had her waters break sitting in her office at work! They had a fan going in there for weeks trying to dry out the carpet.
DS1 - Getting out of bed at 3am to go to the loo and I felt something inside like a rubber band breaking and thought I peed myself. Went to the loo, went back to bed, started having contractions. At midday the next day I was having a snooze on the couch when the phone rang and whoooooshka! The rest of my waters came rushing out like someone had chucked a bucket of water on me. Got to love a breech labour
DS2 - Broken during labour by my midwife's fingers. They asked me first, as it was in my birth plan not to have ARM but I was a VBAC and my labour kept stalling. It did the trick, as I went from 5cm to 10cm in 10 minutes and DS2 was born 1 hour after that.
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