anyone have experience with partial water break then nothing?

With my first, my water broke, fully (large gush), and I didn't start contractions until about 7 hours later. I was leaking fluid the entire time after the large gush (has to keep a towel between my legs basically all day. It took another 2/3 hours after that before my contractions started to become regular. 31 hours after my water broke, I had my baby via C-section (certainly NOT saying this is your situation, or even in any way related to water breaking. My baby was posterior, forehead presentation, and midwife couldn't turn/reposition her). Just wanted to give my experience.

KS Mama we are practically labor twins (fingers crossed this time goes much better!).

I had a small break that only leaked when I was in certain positions...contractions began about 12 hours later when the rest of my bag of waters gave way. But dd wasn't well positioned and I too had a c/s ~32 hours later.

I'd say go ahead and have a warm bath or shower to relax (although you don't want intrusive things like a VE after your water breaks, bathing isn't really a problem since the water doesn't go "up" the birth passage on it's own), and make sure to relax/sleep/enjoy the next day or so since it's likely you'll be in active labor very soon! Happy birthing!

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I KNOW! I've read your birth stories before & thought the same thing! VBAC this time - we can do it!!!

Oh, yes, that sounds perfectly fine to me. I'd be very comfortable waiting until the baby was ready barring any fevers.

I'm a broken water kinda birther myself:
#1. Prodromal Labor for weeks & then water broke. Labor began immediately & he was born 17 hours later.
#2 Prodromal Labor for weeks & weeks. Then my water broke. 2 days later my labor began in earnest.
#3 At 31/32 weeks my water gushed. Not a good thing. But, with MW care I stayed home & didn't end up actually going into labor until close to 42 weeks. My baby was healthy & plump!

I had something similar happen - went 3.5 days with a broken water until ended up at the hospital for pit.

I am shocked that your midwife doesn't have you on some sort of a protocol - maybe she does but you didn't mention it? I was taking my temp every 4 hours while awake, taking a certain amount of vitamin C every 4 hours, and doing a vaginal wash with this antibiotic wash (can't remember the name but is pink, at regular drug stores, and similar to what is used in Europe). I didn't have the results back from my gsb (or whatever that is) test yet, so the wash may have been because of that. Plus did the wash after ever bathroom use.

also, my mw told me to clean one toilet in the house really well and to use only that toilet and not let anyone else use it, and to not use public restrooms (I didn't go anywhere until we ended up at the hospital anyways).

She also did not do manual checks (that can push bacteria up there, even with sterile gloves) and said NO SEX.

I don't know what the chances of infection are, but I know the results can be SERIOUS. You need to do what you can to avoid it, and you need to monitor for it so you can get treatment at the first signs of it.

Best wishes for a wonderful birth!

~Tracy

your doing all you need to do!

sometimes small breaks in either layer of the sac can reseal themselves. Keep us posted...