My membrane sprung a slow leak at 19wks and then a total and complete rupture at 23wks. I had alternating oral and IV antibiotics and from 19wks til 29wks when Gussy was born. We were in a very dire position. Amongst a looooong list of issues, Gussy had intraventricular haemmorages and has plagiocephaly (parallelogram shaped head) caused from the pressure on his head while it was wedged in my pelvis without the protection of a sac/amnio fluid for so many weeks. I bled heavily (multiple subchorionic haemmorages) every day from wks 5 to 19. The fetal med specialist and Ob said that that the high volume of bleeding caused a chemical reaction with the cell walls of the amniotic sac and that premature rupture of membranes was almost inevitable. I should say that our case has been formally studied and is being written into an article for publication in a medical journal as the volume of bleeding was extremely unusal.