Hi - just found this thread. With my second born, my waters broke at 27 weeks and I was admitted to a high risk hospital ward. The plan/hope was for me to remain pregnant until week 33 when the baby would be at a healthier gestation but would be safer to deliver then than keep going with waters completely gone. The waters were replenishing themselves so I was continually leaking and on bed-rest. There was a risk that the umbilical cord could start descending and so they asked me to keep a look out and would need to deliver urgently should that happen. Anyway, I ended up having to deliver my baby 2 days after my waters had broken, so she was born at 27 weeks, as chorioamnioitis infection had set in which had not been apparent when I was first admitted with my waters gone (possibly infection happened due to being in the hospital environment). The high risk ward had about 8 or so women whose waters had gone and they were on bed-rest trying to hold off for more weeks and they told me of some cases which made it to full-term even when their waters had broken as early as 22 weeks.
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