Water breaking? How to tell?

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Mommas who have had babies, I know it can sometime be difficult to tell if your water broke or if youve just peed yourself. I was thinking, if you have strong kegal muscles and no issues peeing yourself prior, if you were flexing your kegals but fluid still came out, that would be a pretty safe indication that it's amniotic fluid right? Or would your kegal muscles stop the amniotic fluid also? Just curious.

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Have you ever felt blood come out when on your period? It feels exactly like that rather than pee

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Feels like a big gush of fluid you can't control...you'll know it's not pee. But for me my water never broke anywhere but at the hospital

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You can't stop the fluid like you can pee and every time you get up or down or roll over it will leak. If it's continuing to leak even when you aren't sneezing or coughing or throwing up, it's amniotic fluid. But once your water breaks they want the baby to come out within 24hrs so it's not a huge emergency to get to the hospital, you have time. Some of us don't even go to a hospital at all.

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FTM: just smell the liquid. the odds of your water breaking are pretty slim (at most 20% of all moms have it break). It would be a lot. If you think you're leaking, use a pad. ☺️

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My waters just broke completely on their own one day (39W). No Braxton hicks, no mucous plug, no dropping, no contractions.

Felt a pop in my tummy, thought I should go to the bathroom and check that out, argued with myself for like 5 mins about it, then as soon as I stood up (was lying on my side on the couch) GUSH. Had a shower, put on clean clothes, grabbed 2 towels, one for the car seat and one for between my legs. Get to the hospital (approx 10-15 mins away) and shorts were soaked through already.

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In my case I felt a small gush initially, and was having regular contractions,  so we headed to the hospital (I wasn't sure if it was pee or not). On the way the freaking flood gates opened, no mistaking it for pee, water just gushed out like crazy. It was a very good thing I was sitting on towels!

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I knew mine broke because I was already in the hospital with contractions 3 minutes apart (they came spaced out like that, my body don't ease my into labor...) and I threw up from pain and that's when it broke. And I kept feeling water gushing everytime I threw up 😞😞

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I'm one of the moms in that 15-20%!

I hadn't had any problems with incontinence, so when I went to the bathroom in the middle of the night, I was startled to feel a trickle when leaving the room to go back to bed. Actually said "can't tell if my water broke or if I've finally lost bladder control!" to my hubby. (That was when he decided to wake up and just wait for me to figure myself out. Lol.)

Within the next 10-15, I had a sudden gush of fluid, convincing me my water had broken. Then nothing for 10 minutes, so I second guessed myself. I had a trickle or two and thought maybe he had just been sitting on my bladder a weird way. The 2nd or 3rd "gush" was enough for me to know 100% that it was time to call the midwife!

Let me tell you, longest 45 minute trip to the hospital ever. I'm just glad there was no permanent damage to the car's seat!

Water breaking? How to tell?

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