Hi All
While i sit here showered, kids in bed, house clean and doula bag packed waiting for my clients contractions to start after her waters breaking (PS yep know it could be hours/days but im excited after having not attended a birth in 6mths lol)
wanted to ask a question :)
How long after your waters broke did your contractions start?
I only had one waters break start labour out of 3 births and it was an hour to the min after my waters "popped" while in the bath lol
I'm no help! My waters broke after I'd already had 15 hours of contractions :D
With my first it was roughly 4 hours, and then a good 12-14 hours before they became regular and strong!
Hooray for going to a birth! Very exciting!
I was having contractions for hours before my waters brke so i'm no help LOL
Miss S was born 10mins after having my waters broken.
Hope it goes well. x
They didn't and after 14 hours I was induced with syntocin - however I was told to go home and go to bed (it was at night). I wish I'd gone fr a walk!!xx
with ds1, they never broke untill 2 secconds befor he came out, after a whole day of contractions.
ds2, they broke at 6-6:30am, started getting realy faint ones at 7pm, never realy kicked in untill the drip at the hospital arround midnight.
dd, they brok, a hour later the contractions started.
i guess it is diffrent each pregnancey..
i hope it starts up soon for you, all the best to you and your client!
2 hours and then it was straight into established labour within 20 minutes.
6 days!!!! they gave me something to stop the cx while i was transferred between hospitals and i honestly think if i hadnt of taken that she would have been here the same day.
hope u dont have to wait too long!
With DD mine broke at 10pm & then contractions started at 1am.
First time - 15 mins and then DD was born 2 hours later and second time - immediately and DS was born one hour later.
Mild ctx after a few hours, but established labour after 17 hours, then another five until she was born. I lost ALL my waters too...it was like a bucket full of water and my stomach visibly shrank!
Mine didn't start at all with Ds ... Waters broke at 3am, they induced me 2 days later at 12:30pm. (33.5hrs later, they wern't supposed to let me wait that long apparently??)
20 minutes for my older sister! My younger sister was a tad daunted because she was driving my older sister to hospital when the first, very intense contraction hit. Apparently my older sister shouted so loud that younger sister almost swerved into the other lane
Immediately they ramped up for me! I'd had niggles from 6am then my waters broke at 7.15ish am and BAM! it was on!!
I continues driving home (yes broke while I was driving home from Yoga), 45 minutes later the ctx started at 5 min appart, we got to the hospital 45 min after that and they were 3 min appart, got to delivery suite internal and I was 7-8cm, baby was born 1/2hr later :o :lol:
With dd15 they never broke...she was 'born in the caul' (XDH thought she was born without a face :o)
Next three broke sometime during labour.
dd3 broke 2 hrs before labour.
dd2 broke at 26+6 weeks and I lasted to 28+1 weeks.
apparently after 12 hours infection can set in. because ds2 wasnt born untill arround 18hours after mine broke, i copped a huge ear bashing of one midwife and both ds2 and i had to have antibiotic drips and blood tests every few hours for a few days "just to be sure" due to the time frame.:
i had 2 lots of gel inserted, one at 3.30pm and another lot at 10.30pm. rolled over in bed at 12.50am, heard the loud pop and felt the gush and by 1.00am was in established labour, so 10 mins for me :)
With DS1 my waters broke 6:30pm at exactly 28 weeks, he was born at 30+1 weeks at 3:15am, 344.75 hours after PPROM. It was about 3 days after my waters broke that I got my first contractions, however I had been on drugs to stop them coming to try and pro-long labour.
With DS2 I had already been contracting for 8 weeks before my waters had to be broken approximately 1 hour prior to birth at 34+3 weeks.
Nearly 12 hours before they were regular
It depends on hospital policy - with DD, my group practice mw was happy to let me go to 4days as long as I took my temp every 4hours and she would come and see me 2x a day. With DS, they were giving me to the Monday morning, so that would have been 35 hours (luckily for me, L&D were really busy, otherwise it would have been 24hrs) and it was a different hospital each time. Although with DS, i was GBS positive, so had to head to hospital once my waters broke for antibiotics anyway.:
With DD, contractions started 16hours after waters broke and she was born after another 16hours, but between them breaking and labour starting, I was getting uncomfortable niggles.
DS, it was 24hours without a single niggle until they started, but then it was only 4hours till he was born, (and only less than 1.5hours of active labour)
My water broke at 4:15am and I didn't get contractions til around 5pm, which were 5mins apart. P was born 5:46am
With my first, my water broke at 3.30am yet I didnt start having contractions until 11pm that night. With DD2, my water broke and 15 mins later I was having painful contractions 5 mins apart lasting a minute. Good luck!!!
At the time, They told me 24hrs but that was 15 years ago. Proberbly is 12 hrs by now. I did know it was for the risk of infection though. This was just one of the many things the hospital / OB (at the time) stuffed me around on. I had to stay in hospital the whole time though & didn't get any infections... Luckily!:
At the Angliss they told me 48 hours in the normal delivery area, and when I was in the birth center they told me 96 hours. And in both cases when/if you reached that time they would induce:
my hospital was happyfor me to keep going untl 37 weeks (water broke at 35) with monitoring and a blood test every second day and a course of ab's, i went on my own and didnt need to be induced though
Thank you everyone :) its great hearing all these stoires :)
My client ended up starting contractions (very mild) at 10pm and a beautiful baby boy was born at 2am monday morning :)
Waters broke at 6pm sat night and bubs was born at 2am monday morning.
Waters were broken for me with first two.
Waters broke naturally with no.3 and contractions started straight away at about 1-2 mins apart had him 1hr 9 mins after waters broke :)
Hoping for the same this time !