When the water breaks varies among women. Mine broke about ten hours before I had any contractions and I called my ob-gyn and he said to come in when the contractions were three minutes apart. So about 11pm the contractions started. Every ten minutes I had one and it lasted for maybe 30-45 seconds. Since it felt better to stand I ironed clothing for most of the night. Weird, huh?

I had a dr appt scheduled for 9am and took my shower and went to my appt with the contractions still only every ten minutes. The doc checked me in his office and said I was 9cm dilated and said to go right away to the labor and delivery unit and I walked about five minutes to there and then when they checked I was 10cm which is fully dilated. The poor nurse didn't have much time to do all the things she needed because I had done most of the labor at home and waited. The funny thing was my contractions never did get to every 3 minutes until it was time to push the baby out.

Some people are already having a lot of contractions when their water breaks. Some have to have the dr do it. When mine broke it wasn't the whoosh that I expected but just a slow dribble that kept feeling like I wet myself.

The pushing part was for 10 minutes and I didn't like that but if they would have let me stand I think it would have been alot easier on me. But they made me lie in bed on my back for the convenience of the doctor to see what was happening.