Water breaking

Unlike movies/tv it doesn't have to break before you go into hospital or contractions to begin. I had contractions & went into hospital & was 7cm dilated but water still didn't break until they checked again & accidentally broke it lol by then I was on epidural & felt like I peed. I'm sure it's different for everyone just keep that in mind ☺️

I broke waters when I was at 10cm dilatation during waterbirth. I was already in the pool when it happened and just remember a big POP like a champagne bottle opening ahahaha. That was my first experience with it.

Very variable. Had them break once on their own and it felt like I was wetting myself except (if this makes sense), I knew I wasn’t.
Also had them broken by the midwife when they were bulging out to try to speed up labour and it felt like a big jug tipped out everywhere.

It varies. With mine there was a pop and a big gush. I was actually on the toilet (Luckily!) so my first thought was that it was just a really powerful wee 😂 but then I couldn't stop it like you can a wee. Then after the initial gush it continued to leak gradually.

Mine never "broke" it just felt like a balloon had popped and a small trickle of liquid that was it

I had the movie pop and gush, I rolled over in bed and felt/heard a pop followed by a load of water. Was no way it could be anything else.

I have friends where their hind waters went first, so they didn’t know/realise for a few days.

Your waters are supposed to break only when in active labour, it’s not like how they show it on TV for most cases.
However, I have a connective tissue disorder which means my waters can break early and they both did with my last two. First, it was like a leaking for three days beforehand and he came early, second was a small gush when I got out of bed in the night, nothing more then just like wetting myself amount, but you know the difference.

With my 1st I woke up to a wet bed at 4am, stood up and there was a massive gush. My 2nd my waters didn't break at all until she was coming out😊

I had mine broken with my first. It was quite a gush but didn’t notice so much as was lying on the bed. With my second they broke on their own whilst standing in the hospital and was a definite gush!

I didn’t really feel anything with either or mine. The broke naturally with my first during the night and the midwife broke mine in labour with my second. Both were a big gush and I could only tell because of the massive puddle really.

Mine broke at 10cm in the birthing pool, felt like a huge balloon pop. Couldn’t miss it!

Mine broke at home, but it was more like a trickle, no pop or gushing as such. It initially felt like whenever I went for a wee, I needed to stay on the loo extra few mins as I’d have a bit more of a trickle. Over the course of the day, it got more and more and then at one point it felt like I had an uncontrollable wee so I sat on the loo. I’d had a pad on which got wet and when I rang triage even then I was unsure whether it was my waters or did I wet myself 🤣 so I got asked to come in with my pad so they could check. Wasnt like the movies at all for me. Also wearing a pad is good idea as the nurses said your waters will have a sweet smell rather than a “wee” type smell

My first broke when I stood up from sleeping at night. So like I didn’t specifically feel anything before it happen I just stood up and it gushes. My second was after I was in labor for a while and had an epidural right before giving birth so I didn’t feel anything . They just told me