How long after your water broke...

For those ladies whose water broke on their own before labor...
How long after your water broke did you start feeling contractions?
I felt a small gush and thought maybe it was my water, but it might have just been discharge, but then I laid down and when I got back up 10 minutes later, I had a significantly larger gush. It soaked my pants a little.. But I'm not having any contractions.... Is that bad or weird?
Or does it sometimes take a bit for them to start up?

I started having painful contractions right away and my son was born four hours later. It would have been sooner, but the doctor gave me an hour to rest after my epi.

I had contractions all day the day my water broke,but once it broke within 5mins they where gettin really bad..

Actually mine broke in the middle of the night BUT I didnt realize it was my water because it was a slow leak....well anyways at 7:00pm the next day my mom MADE me go in because my panties kept getting wet....well sure enough it was my water! I guess I wasnt even feeling my contractions, in fact I never did until after they started the pitocin, even tho the screen pulled them! Anyways they had to rush me to L&D, start emergency antibiotics because its dangerous to not go in within 4 hours after it breaks! After a hour of antiobiotics they starte dthe Pitocin, 5 hours later Arieanna was ready to be pushed out! Good luck hun but if it is ur water u should go in! Take care hun and good luck!!

sometimes u dont even feel them but u can be having them..thats what happened to me...if ur water broke u need to go to the doctor tho because of the risk of infection...and if u soaked ur pants and feel gushes it probably is

The same thing happened to me.. my water broke in the middle of the night, and I wasn't having contractions (that I could feel anyways). I called L&D and was told to come in right away. They started me on pitocin an hour after I got there...

Quoting Alysa:“ sometimes u dont even feel them but u can be having them..thats what happened to me...if ur water broke ... [snip!] ... broke u need to go to the doctor tho because of the risk of infection...and if u soaked ur pants and feel gushes it probably is”

YUP! I didnt feel them either....never until I was in actual full blown labor! They even pulled that I was having them at my 36 week stress test but I couldnt feel a thing!

I wasn't having contractions when my water broke either. Mine was kind of like a slow leak too. It felt sooooo gross! I think it wa about two hours until I started feeling contractions.

Congrats on your due-date at that. You will be meeting your bundle of joy probubly tonite or early tomorrowI am exited for you

my friends water broke she ordered 2 pizzas waited for them eat both took another shower got all the stff together then calld her mom and told her her water broke her mom got off work and came home and she went to the hospital without any sever contractions! she said she had a few light little cramp like pains but no "heavy duty" contractions tillshe was at the hospital for a few hours and her labor was only 9 hours her water broke at i think 3 or 4 in the afternoon and got to the hospital at like 7 i think!!

Do you have a text buddy,if you go in?

Quoting Miranda & Arie XOXO:“ YUP! I didnt feel them either....never until I was in actual full blown labor! They even pulled that I was having them at my 36 week stress test but I couldnt feel a thing!”

hehe...its funny how that can happen right?? they hooked me up to moniters and would come and check on me every couple hours and they were like "ummm u didnt feel those??" haha i was just talkin away to my mom and my husband and didnt notice a damn thing

If your water breaks, I was always told to go straight to L&D because it's possible that the umbilical cord can slip out some before the babies head, and once the head goes down, cutting off the circulation to the baby.

Quoting beloved tummy invader:“ For those ladies whose water broke on their own before labor... How long after your water broke did you ... [snip!] ... a little.. But I'm not having any contractions.... Is that bad or weird? Or does it sometimes take a bit for them to start up?”

My water always broke after I was in labor, but since it did break shouldn't you go to L and D now? I think after it breaking you have to have the baby within like 48 hours.

Quoting brianamarie21:“ My water always broke after I was in labor, but since it did break shouldn't you go to L and D now? I think after it breaking you have to have the baby within like 48 hours.”

I had mine 9hours later.=)