What to do when water breaks?

I'm pregnant with my first. My midwife said to ring the hospital when my waters break just so they are aware but to wait until I'm having 3 contractions in 10 minutes and if that isn't happening withing 24 hours to go to hospital as monitoring will need to be done.

But it may be different depending in your trust

I did all kinds of things to keep me relaxed and happy, put on some music, nice scent, went for a shower, when the contractions started to ramp up a bit I was concentrating on breathing and moving etc.
But unfortunately even after 24hours my contractions weren’t close enough, even ‘painful enough’ so I had to go in. I was advised to do that after I passed the 24h mark

With my first my waters broke, you have to go in for them to monitor you and then if everything is okay (ie no meconium in waters) they will give you a choice whether you want to induce now or wait to go into natural labour within the next 24 hours, if you don’t go into labour naturally within 24 hours then they would like to induce you, but also remember everything is your choice. I would personally not risk it to not get induced if 24 hours have passed as the risk of infection and sepsis is high. But my contractions started and I laboured naturally. But you do need to go in for them to monitor your waters, make sure to wear a pad xx