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Poll Results: What point in labor did your water break?

 
  • 33% (48)
    Before contractions
  • 9% (13)
    Early labor
  • 14% (20)
    Before transition
  • 11% (17)
    Transition
  • 26% (38)
    Right before baby was born
  • 4% (6)
    Baby was born in the caul
142 Total Votes  
post #21 of 54
4/10/07 at 10:54pm
#1 AROM/eventual "emergency" c-section
#2 ERCS
#3 SROM before transition. I think I was about 7 cm.

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post #22 of 54
4/11/07 at 1:04am
3 days before she was born so PROM
post #23 of 54
4/11/07 at 1:20am
My water didn't break until my c/s with #1.

My water broke at 41 weeks with #2- no contractions. It didn't cause labor to start and it wasn't a little break- more like gushing I ended up with a second c/s 36 hours after it broke b/c I never went in to labor.
post #24 of 54
4/11/07 at 1:31am
There needs to be an "other," mine broke three times--yes, just with one baby. Anyhow, a high leak at 37 weeks which resealed, a medium sized sploosh right before real labor contractions started and leaking all day (at 40 weeks), and a giant sploosh right before transition.
post #25 of 54
4/11/07 at 2:49am
Quote:
Originally Posted by theretohere View Post
Wow- what a great idea with the breastpump!
Ugh, I am not sure I would recommend getting on an actual pump! I went from sitting around chatting happily with dh and my kids and my mil, to laying on the floor having really intense ctx in about 10 minutes. I used a PIS. If it happens again I'll just do manual nipple stim. Although maybe it wouldn't have made a difference? But then again, a PIS is STRONG. So who knows? But next time I'd try *gentle* manual nipple stim first!
post #26 of 54
4/11/07 at 3:14am
Mine was SROM at 36+3, I woke up with a gush. I started to feel contractions just over an hour later, DS was born about 2hrs 45minutes later.
post #27 of 54
4/11/07 at 8:20am
I voted transition, because technically I was 9cm dilated, but I had AROM for a labor stall, so technically I was in transition due to my dilation, but I wasn't really in transition, I was only having putsy contractions every 5-10 minutes or so.
post #28 of 54
4/11/07 at 8:28am
I didn't vote b/c I had two very different experiences. I sprung a leak with my 1st the day before she was born, before labor set in. She was born almost 28 hours later. I never felt the rest of the water go, so it must have happened in the tub.

With my second, it was when she was just about crowning.
post #29 of 54
4/11/07 at 5:01pm
My first I had appendicitis and my water broke three days post surgery and I went into labor on my own a few hours after it broke. For my other three deliveries my water broke on its own (after a few hours of labor) and I immediately delivered.
post #30 of 54
4/11/07 at 5:39pm
My water broke about two seconds before DD was born. My midwife might have had a hand in breaking in; I can't remember for sure. So it's possible she could have been born in a caul.
post #31 of 54
4/11/07 at 5:58pm
first baby - sometime either late in active labor or during transition, hard to say which.

second baby - it was the dividing point between transition and pushing... and pushing only lasted a handful of contractions, so it was about 4 minutes before the birth.
post #32 of 54
4/11/07 at 6:19pm
Both births, water broke right at the end of transition and signalled the beginning of pushing (or as much pushing as was necessary). First birth, water broke and character of contractions changed drastically - huge urge to push. Second birth, baby sort of convulsively dropped, water broke, baby was born with next contraction (fetal ejection reflex kicked in)
post #33 of 54
4/11/07 at 10:52pm
right before baby was born all three times.
post #34 of 54
4/12/07 at 2:52am
i was on the toilet probably right at transition, maybe right before. i remember thinking i didn't know how much longer i could go.
post #35 of 54
4/12/07 at 12:48pm
When its broken on its own it signaled the start of labor for me. I have hollywood style labors . You know a womans water breaks and shes immediatly in hard labor...yeah thats me. I have had 1 born in the caul and twice I had AROM but the one time it resealed and I almost had another born in the caul but the dr broke it as the head was crowning would've been cool to have 2 born in the caul!
post #36 of 54
4/12/07 at 1:27pm
Where's other? You know you have to put "other," right?

I put "transition." That's not the case, though. My water broke about an hour after transition. However, the baby wasn't born for another 6-7 hours after my water broke. So, "Right before baby was born" didn't seem accurate either.

HTH!

Julia
dd 1 year old
post #37 of 54
4/12/07 at 1:29pm
About 12 hours into labor.
post #38 of 54
4/12/07 at 1:36pm
With all 3 of my children it has broken right before the baby was born.

It so hard to push the bag of waters, once the water breaks pushing the baby is is a breeze and relief.
post #39 of 54
4/12/07 at 1:43pm
You should enable multiple answers, some of us have had more than one birth.

My water "broke" (really just a trickle) right before contractions began with one of my births, with my three others it was as the baby was emerging.
post #40 of 54
4/12/07 at 1:43pm
My water was broken for me both times...before transition.
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