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while bouncing on a birthing ball in the shower at the birth centre!!
what a fantastic feeling that 'pop' is! i was induced with DD1, and never felt anything... it was probably an hour before she was born, and i had been in the shower around 10 mins, so i think that helped the process! i'd been in labour for about 12 hours already!
WIth the first three they were all done for my in labour but the last one I was in bed out to the world. I felt/dreamed that POP then flooded my bed. I was home alone too as I had sent the kids to my mums and DH to work.
So there I was at 1 in the morning showering and stripping my bed all in between contractions.
The car ride was awful as everytime I had a contraction my pants would fill up with more fluid!
I walked into delivery with a towel between my legs and the midwife asked "have your waters broken?" :doh: No love this is the new fashion didnt you know??
I was on my hands and knees on a hospital bed naked, just about to start pushing, when I felt a big POP and it just came gushing out of me. At one stage felt what I thought was the baby's head just about to come out, but it must have been the membranes! :)
Apparently most peoples waters' break towards the end of labour? That's what our midwife said anyway.
At my last scan the doc (a Dr did the scan, I was at the hospital getting bp checked) said that I had a lot more amniotic fluid than is average. My gut was huge. I was always told that 75% of waters break as the baby is being born so did NOT expect mine to break as they did.
Long story short,
They broke on the couch. Then through the lounge, the kitchen, down the hall, on the toilet floor, in the toilet, the hall again, the bathroom floor, the shower, the hall again, my computer chair, the hall AGAIN, on the bed...
You get the picture.
We literally used every towel in the house.
It took me an hour to put my socks on after having a shower because I kept gushing everywhere LOL.
Honestly I hated the feeling. That feeling of having zero control over the flow. I laugh when I say it was the most traumatic part of my very "interesting" labour and birth but it was the part I disliked the most!
:-P
1) at the hospital was labouring while pacing the room so it happened in the middle of the room when a middy came in to check on me :)
2) 15mins from birth at the hospital, natural labour.
3)?????? im guessing it will happen again naturally 10mins before a head appears ;)