I really shouldn't be asking this... This isn't my first time giving birth (or even my first time with labour beginning with ROM if that's what this is, it happened to me last time).
But I'm doubting myself and I wanted some input from people who aren't obsessing like I am.
I went to bed as usual tonight but felt a little funny feeling a while later. No leaking, nothing came of it so I went to sleep. When I woke up I went pee and had a huge pee (TMI) but I had also had a lot to drink before bed so I just went on with my night.
I got up again because I couldn't get comfortable enough to sleep. I went pee and it was another regular size one. I wondered about ROM so I lay back down and then got up 15 minutes later with a premium size prefold between my legs and the liquid coming out of me soaked through it (I had it folded in half and then trifolded, so six layers).
Since then I've been testing and for the last hour every 10 to 15 minutes I get up and try again with a dry prefold between my legs and I've soaked through every one.
The fluid is clear (no colour at all, even a hint, on the bleached pf fabric). It doesn't smell like urine but it doesn't smell like it did when I had ROM last time either (which was confirmed by the midwife as amniotic fluid and I continued to leak it until he was born). It doesn't really smell like anything.
There is no way I could be making urine that fast right? Nothing comes out when I sit down on the toilet either so I assume that his head is blocking it then?
Input would be appreciated. I am leaning towards ROM, but it's so early for me (36 weeks, 4 days... my second pregnancy was shorter than my first but even then ROM was at 37 weeks, 6 days) so I am seriously doubting myself too.
*sigh* If only there was a manual
But I'm doubting myself and I wanted some input from people who aren't obsessing like I am.
I went to bed as usual tonight but felt a little funny feeling a while later. No leaking, nothing came of it so I went to sleep. When I woke up I went pee and had a huge pee (TMI) but I had also had a lot to drink before bed so I just went on with my night.
I got up again because I couldn't get comfortable enough to sleep. I went pee and it was another regular size one. I wondered about ROM so I lay back down and then got up 15 minutes later with a premium size prefold between my legs and the liquid coming out of me soaked through it (I had it folded in half and then trifolded, so six layers).
Since then I've been testing and for the last hour every 10 to 15 minutes I get up and try again with a dry prefold between my legs and I've soaked through every one.
The fluid is clear (no colour at all, even a hint, on the bleached pf fabric). It doesn't smell like urine but it doesn't smell like it did when I had ROM last time either (which was confirmed by the midwife as amniotic fluid and I continued to leak it until he was born). It doesn't really smell like anything.
There is no way I could be making urine that fast right? Nothing comes out when I sit down on the toilet either so I assume that his head is blocking it then?
Input would be appreciated. I am leaning towards ROM, but it's so early for me (36 weeks, 4 days... my second pregnancy was shorter than my first but even then ROM was at 37 weeks, 6 days) so I am seriously doubting myself too.
*sigh* If only there was a manual
