What did it feel like for you just before your waters broke?

[~clover~]

Mine broke before contractions started with DD1. (Didn't feel them as I was asleep)
They had to be broken with DD2 about 5 minutes before she was born.
They broke about an hour into a 5 hour labour with DS.

Every birth is different They may break, they may not.

[Tinks]

I felt as though I needed to go to the toilet although I'd just been a minute or 2 before. Then I rolled over in bed and it just popped and fluid gushed out. I thought I was weeing but couldn't stop, then I realised what had happened.

[Laranna]

My waters broke before contractions started. I was asleep in bed and didn't feel anything other than a slight leak and I remember suddenly waking up thinking "oh crap I'm peeing the bed!" As soon as I stood up, I had a big gush. Didn't feel anything other than wet!