Waters have broken 36 weeks 1day

(36 weeks 1 day) I was in work as normal yesterday and I haven’t been feeling 100% all weekend and had woken up with some stomach cramps in the morning that lasted until after lunchtime. Around 10:30am I was sat down and all of a sudden I felt a sensation that was more than a trickle but not a gush. I went to the bathroom and checked my pad and saw pinkish liquid but didn’t think much of it because I’d had an increase in discharge anyway. I went out for a walk with work and kept feeling small trickles, when I came back I checked my pad again and saw there was a lot more fluid. I rang the midwife and she told me to ring the antenatal day unit and go up to be seen.

When I got up to the hospital (around 1pm) I spoke to a midwife and she asked me to take off all of my bottom half lie down for half an hour to allow any fluid to pool, and then a doctor would come in use a speculum and test to see if it is my waters. I shouted over the curtain that I had a pad that she could look at if that’s any help and she said get undressed and leave it on the side and I’ll have a look when you’re ready. I got undressed and lay on the bed she cane in took one look at the pad and said I don’t need to doctors I’m positive that’s your waters. Me and my partner looked at each other in shock because we believed it would be something of nothing. We sat there looking at each other and waited for her to come back and send us home. When the midwife came back she said we had a bed on the antenatal ward for 24 hours to try and see if things get going naturally and if not I’d be induced in the morning, we were both in disbelief that we were going to meet our baby in a matter of days.

I had planned a homebirth so I am obviously very disappointed that I can’t do that because it’s what I wanted more than anything. In my birth plan I was very flexible and said if I had to go to hospital I would I understand the safety of the baby matters most but I would like to be in the pool ( since we had a pool planned for our homebirth) however I don’t think that will happen either. Trying to remain positive and we just pray baby gets here safely.