where did your water break ?

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1. Hallway right outside my bedroom. Second kid on the stairs.

2. First child – doctor broke it to see if it’d speed labor (spoiler – nope). Second child was actually born with a caul as water ruptured as I pushed her out and she had the amniotic sac still wrapped around her.

3. It didn’t. She didn’t even drop 😬 they had to force her to drop 10 days after she was due.

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5. In the hospital.

6. The first one I was in the bathtub easing contractions. I felt like I had to fart, which I did, and the bubbles stopped but feeling kept going.

7. All done by the Dr with all four children.

8. Sitting on the sofa with one child

9. Both times hospital broke mine because babies were on their way out still in it.

10. When I was sleeping once. The other time it didn’t break until at the hospital.

11. In bed. Funnily enough, I had this weird feeling that night that I should put a towel down just in case. My back had some odd cramping and I just felt off. Woke up at 4am to discover that my water broke.

12. In the car 😂

13. At the hospital by the doctor when I was in labor with all of my children.

14. Over the toilet

15. 1st ~ in the hall right outside the bathroom door. I was talking to my husband while he was getting ready for work at 3:00 in the morning.

    2nd ~ in the hospital. The midwife broke it.

16. Only 1 out of three. The 3rd one. At home, in bedroom.

17. While sleeping in bed. A sharp pain woke me up and that was that!

18. Doctor with my first two. Was already in labor for hours when they did it. My third I swear it broke at home, in the bedroom. I ended up waiting (I have long labors and wanted to go to my middle sons preschool graduation) so I didn’t go to the hospital for a while (they kept calling since I called them to let them know I’d be coming in) But they did a swab and said my water hadn’t broken but I think I was leaking. It was definitely not urine. It wasn’t fully broken until I was in labor in the hospital and it popped on its own in the bed, I can’t recall if it was before or after my epidural but I remember the sensation of wetness

19. Baby 1: I turned to reach for a dish on the table and there it went.

    Baby 2: Active labor and a partner who needed to shower and make coffee before getting in the car. In the elevator to the L&D floor I feel the urge to push. My doctor is on the way. Nurses are scrambling when I get to their station, assuring me that they got this and there it went, right at their station.

20. Not until I was in the hospital pool several hours into contractions a couple of hours before she was born.

21. In the hospital, at the hands of a really rough OB. 💢 He actually said “That didn’t hurt.” Yeah, it didn’t hurt you…

22. In my bed. It was so anticlimactic the doctors didn’t even think it actually popped until like 5 days later when my amniotic fluid was really low.

23. In my bed- woke up to a trickle, then went to the bathroom and it just kept coming. Kid was two full weeks late.