Where were you when your waters broke?

[BeautifulMadness]

hospital as i had to be induced

[Inertia]

The first 4 times at the hospy by the hospy. The 5th time it was when I was transitioning, so Harrys head meant I didnt even notice. No gushing mess at all until he was born.

[Lisa]

Mine have only broken naturally once. It was actually more of a trickle which started about 1/2hr after I lost my mucus plug and while I was at work. Eventually a gush came, but that was right before my DS was born.

[Olive]

mine both were trickles and both in bed in the early hours of the morning!

[~Kim~]

First one was stepping out of our EH holden....much to DH's horror....but it was only a trickle.

Nate's was on the leather lounge waiting for DH to come back from my godfathers funeral 600km away. Cleaning up gave me something else tothink about.

[MantaRay]

Both times I was at the hossy and well and truly in labour - and both times they were artificially ruptured. With DS2 I was fully dilated and just had my show with the contraction that made me want to push, and they still hadn't broken. So the ob took matters into her own hands.

[Jahzara]

With DS#1 - induced. Dr broke waters.

DS#2 - waters broke at home - thought i was wetting myself. Didnt gush out - was a continuous trickle. Rest came out a hospital.

DS#3 - induced. Midwife broke waters.

I was told to put a waterproof matress protector or something similar on my bed leading up to my due date. Apparently you dont want your waters staining things !

[butterfly_warrior]

I was in bed, asleep. I woke up and thought I'd wet myself, and as I stood and dashed to the bathroom I got the gush... and, like Janie, discovered that it was indeed my waters as urine isn't normally pink! It was pretty much all contained by my undies and PJ pants (there's a good reason for wearing long PJ pants, even in Summer!) so didn't actually get any on the bed or the carpet. I think if I hadn't been lying on my side facing the edge of the bed we would have been in a lot more trouble!

BW