Is my water leaking?

edited August 2011 in Labor
Im 38 weeks 5 days and everytime i lie down to relax there is a palm sized puddle under me. Im wearing a panty liner but its a tampax gel liner so it holds alot n i cant tell if its wet besides normal discharge. TMI, my husband and i had sex this morning and the first couple of times i saw the puddles i thought maybe his semen was falling out of me. Hes at work for another 4 hrs and tomorrows his day off so id hate to make him come home n it not be my water.

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  • Well I felt a pop when my water broke so I'm not sure if that's the same for everyone.. maybe your mucus plug?
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  • And it was a huge gush when my water broke then littler amounts.. but if it is your water I would assume you would start getting contractions?
  • @minirip is the mucus plug really wet?

    @2beforgotten i was thinking that too lol. Could it be just super runny discharge? I'm not having any contractions. My doctors office is closed, ill call l&d though.
  • I called l&d and the nurse basically said ill have to come in and get checked. I have my sons ages 5 & 6, i hope they dont give me problems about them being there.
  • Good luck hun! Keep us updated!!
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  • I called back to check about my sons and the nurse said they cant come. Im not sure what to do. Even if i told my hubby to come home he wouldnt get here for an hr because he works on the other side of town, ill just let him finish his shift and keep monitoring the leaking. I think its stopped.
  • Good luck! My mucus plug was clear gooey not real watery.. better to be safe and get checked
  • Worse case senario if my water is leaking, it hasnt all leaked out right? im thinking ill just be sitting in the hospital waiting for contractions. Im going for sure when my husband gets home at 1am.
  • Is there anyone else you could call to watch your boys? Have you researched anything online about if it could have been your mucus plug? Or info about water breaking? Because I think once your water breaks on its own baby is on its way soon..
  • Ur probably ok waiting for ur husband to get home. But dont wait days to get checked. Always better to b on the safe side. Good luck!
  • @minirip no i wish i had someone. I have a friend but she just had a baby so shes in no condition to watch my sons, my dad works out of town so it would take him three hours to get here. I dont like researching google because everything leads to me dying lol but ill look.

    @mommyofthreegirls i texted my husband and he thinks i should just wait too as long as im not having pains. Its only a little over three hours until he is off. Im gonna put my boys to bed and hopefully i can get a hold of my brother in law so my hubby can pick him up to just sit in my living room while they sleep. He has no car because of a dui so its hard to choose him as a sitter.
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  • everyone is different with how their water breaks it could be all or it could just be leaking you never know! And when your water breaks it dosent automatically mean you should have contractions. I hope your brother in law can watch your boys and you can get checked or that your contractions dont start coming strongly before your husband gets there! Prayers that everything will be fine and it's time for your little one to join you and your family!
  • Good luck mama!
  • I went in for the same thing and it wasnt leaking the.nurse said if my water was leaking when they checked me it would have caused more water to come out so wash ur hands & do a self check c if more water comes
  • @octmommy2b thank you. My brother in laws not answering (hes probably drunk at a strip club), but hubby will be home soon.

    @preggointx thats what i was thinking to do. I usually have my husband check me because my belly is so big i cant balance enough to feel my cervix. When he gets home ill have him do that.
  • My water broke like that...every time I laid down it would leak out, also I didn't start having contractions either
  • @tootie08 how long did it take you to have contractions, if you had them at all? or did they have to give you pitocin?
  • @sjmom I didn't have any contractions at all they ended up giving me pitocin
  • @Sjmom With my first, I had a leak. I went in to be checked and sure enough, I was leaking little by little. No gushes, just little trickles of fluid. The docs admitted me to L&D at 6pm and I wanted to try to go into labor on my own so they let me be until they started pitocin at 6am. They said after 12hrs the risk of infection goes up. If it's just a few hours you're waiting, you should be fine. Hope that helps!
  • ***i stopped getting the puddles and i fell asleep before hubby got home. So i dont think it was my water. I have an ob appt on thursday but i might call in and see if the doc can see me today (at least they never care if my sons are with me). Thanks ladies
  • My water broke last Tuesday. Felt a little wet so I went to the bathroom, thought it was just the goo the put on their fingers when the ch. you (I had a drs apt that morn. (And wasnts dialated)) went home and had about 3/4th of a cup of waterie liquid comin down my leg. I called the drs office and went to l&d. In the waiting room I got a big gush and from then until Wednesday night at 8 I continued to have fluid coming out, some in big gushes and some in little. I ended up having a csection because I was not progressing but that's my water breaking story.

    If I was you, I would call the doctor ASAP never can be to sure. And you have a small window of time after your water breaks to give birth.
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