https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 14 May 2026 04:32:48 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1089447 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 09:20:27 +0000 Adira 1089447@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine broke while I was in labor at the hospital (on the toilet no less, so not much mess)! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1089420 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 09:09:59 +0000 JennyG 1089420@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine broke as I walked out of childbirth class. LO was a month early so I was completely not ready for it. We ran home from the doctors office to grab some stuff from home. I was running around my house in a soaked maxi dress with a bath towel between my legs throwing random items in my bag. The highlight would have to be my flip flops squishing as we walked down the hospital hallway. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1089409 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 09:07:52 +0000 Sapphiresun 1089409@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, I was home doing laundry. Bent over to pick some stuff off the floor and felt a small trickle. Kind of thought I'd peed at first so I got to the bathroom before it really started running. </p> <p>I kept a garbage bag in my glove box in the later weeks just in case I had to be driven to the hospital while leaking. I changed my clothes before we left, but by the time we got there had soaked through my pants and was leaking on the floor of admitting pretty badly.</p> <p>I also was far more worried about it breaking on something super hard to clean like my couch/bed/car seats than in public. At least at the grocery store they'd just mop it up off linoleum. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1089352 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 08:51:25 +0000 cascademom 1089352@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My OB broke mine in the middle of labor. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1089338 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 08:47:10 +0000 Honeybee 1089338@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With my first, my water broke at work. It wasn't a big deal and most of my co-workers didn't even know I was in labor until we sent out an email that night announcing our daughter's birth. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1089258 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 08:18:41 +0000 swurlygurl 1089258@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, mine broke as I was getting out of bed one morning.</p> <p>It seems like I'm the only one that *wanted* it to break in public?! I totally wanted a big dramatic water break! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1089229 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 08:01:57 +0000 looch 1089229@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope! Mine had to be broken at the hospital, but I was totally paranoid of a public water gushing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1089226 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 08:00:10 +0000 MamaMoose 1089226@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't know when mine broke. The baby was so low and engaged it never came out until after I delivered her! When I was a ten my doc went to break it only to discover it was already broken.</p> <p>Is it weird that I would have rathered it broke out in public than all over my bed? I wouldn't have wanted to have to clean it up! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1089200 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 07:32:32 +0000 bushelandapeck 1089200@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@beachbee: same here. Woke up in the middle of the night, and woosh! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1089144 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 06:49:21 +0000 chanzi 1089144@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine broke at home when I sat on the toilet. So convenient! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1089126 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 06:31:19 +0000 Dandelion 1089126@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For DS, my water was nice and popped when I sat on the toilet. With S it was broken in the hospital. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1089088 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 04:50:15 +0000 illumina 1089088@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is one of my worries at the moment. I'm 39+4. I still like getting out and about each day, but once I am I feel the need to get home quickly in case it happens. Fingers crossed it'll go once I'm in established labour in the hospital. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1089028 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 01:35:53 +0000 loveisstrange 1089028@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, I was at home in bed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1088985 Sun, 15 Sep 2013 23:47:31 +0000 StbHisMrs 1088985@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With my first 2 they broke it while I was in labor, with my last one the dr. was on her way to break it just after the epi was placed (anesthesiologist was still in the room) it broke on it's own. I was so surprised, I was laughing through the mega contractions that followed. I was convinced my water would never break on it's own.. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1088769 Sun, 15 Sep 2013 20:43:26 +0000 lovehoneybee 1088769@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, and weirdly I wasn't worried about it. Well once, at my niece's birthday party 3 days before I went into labor, but mostly because there were like 30 7 year olds there and I didn't want to have to explain...</p> <p>Anyway, they broke my waters when I was 9cm. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1088764 Sun, 15 Sep 2013 20:41:52 +0000 Foodnerd81 1088764@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It broke in the hospital in bed during a contraction, with a big gush. </p> <p>I had been carrying around a monster pad with for weeks just in case though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1088752 Sun, 15 Sep 2013 20:36:11 +0000 keiki_mama 1088752@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lucy123: OMG! Thank goodness the restaurant was nice about it.</p> <p>Mine broke on its own at the hospital. It gushed out like a waterfall as DH and I attempted to walk around the halls to get things going. I hustled back into my bathroom and DH cleaned up my mess. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1088728 Sun, 15 Sep 2013 20:24:44 +0000 BananaPancakes 1088728@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had a scheduled c-section, so no popping for me, but one of my closest friends is a teacher and hers broke both time at school. Luckily once was after hours, and the other was during a parent-teacher conference. So not as bad as in front of her 6th graders. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1088689 Sun, 15 Sep 2013 20:06:47 +0000 turkeylurkey 1088689@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope mine did it at home while I was loading the dishes. And it wasn't a big Gush. In fact I thought it was bladder leakage. I experienced leakage for months. It didn't gush until we got out of the car and started walking through the hospital. By that point I didn't care what anyone else thought </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1088678 Sun, 15 Sep 2013 20:00:47 +0000 Mrs D 1088678@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was afraid of that too. I kept extra yoga pants and overnight pads with me just in case but alas - they broke it in the hospital when I was 8cm! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1088627 Sun, 15 Sep 2013 19:33:52 +0000 Smurfette 1088627@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was so afraid of that! But luckily mine broke at home! Even luckily I had justly gotten off the couch. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1088624 Sun, 15 Sep 2013 19:30:19 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 1088624@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, we were at a nice restaurant when mine broke. I felt the pop right after we ordered our entrees. It didn't gush until I went to the bathroom to check on what that pop was (wanted to make sure it wasn't just gas) ... Even though I had timeable contractions for an hour before that. Walking back to the car sucked... I leaked a bunch with each step. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1088622 Sun, 15 Sep 2013 19:27:11 +0000 beachbee 1088622@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope! Middle of the night in bed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1088621 Sun, 15 Sep 2013 19:27:00 +0000 chopsuey 1088621@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was afraid of this too, but my OB had to break both of mine! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1088605 Sun, 15 Sep 2013 19:17:18 +0000 sslm 1088605@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, it happened at home thank god! We had been thinking about going out to supper, I am SO glad we didn't... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1088603 Sun, 15 Sep 2013 19:16:16 +0000 swedishfish 1088603@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@matador84: that would've been my worst nightmare!</p> <p>My water was broken by the doctor during my induction. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1088602 Sun, 15 Sep 2013 19:15:51 +0000 tequiero21 1088602@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My ob broke it, thanks to goodness! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1088599 Sun, 15 Sep 2013 19:14:33 +0000 wonderstruck 1088599@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, I had very good timing - just as the doctor was telling me to go home and come back in the morning because she didn't think I was going to progress from early to active labor anytime soon (and I wanted to kill her because I was in a lot of pain already), my water broke. It was literally in the middle of her sentence...yeah, they admitted me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1088574 Sun, 15 Sep 2013 19:00:59 +0000 rachiecakes 1088574@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was so scared that it would!<br /> It popped on its own while I was waiting to be induced, labor started fast and furious about 20 minutes later. No need for pitocin! lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-water-break-when-you-were-out-in-public#post-1088565 Sun, 15 Sep 2013 18:57:18 +0000 lemondrop 1088565@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, it broke on it's own, no- I was at home. I was sitting on the couch, reached down to pick up a pen I had dropped, and POP! My husband said I jumped up and ran to the bathroom he thought I had to throw up since I moved so fast. I only soaked my pants though, luckily not the couch! </p>