Moms who had a "slow leak" when their water broke...

how did you know that's what it was? like did it soak through your pants or did you just feel damp all the time?

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I was told I had a slow leak, but I never knew. TMI, but sometimes when I was peeing, it felt like it kept going, but I attributed that to late PG incontinence. I only found out when I had a sono on my due date, and had NO water left. I was induced immediately. I never soaked through my pants. The last couple days when I found out later i had no water, I felt very little movement from DS.

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Re: Moms who had a "slow leak" when their water broke...

I had a "slow leak" but it started about an hour after my real contractions started so I "knew" I was in labor.

I labored at home for about 5 hours before going to the hospital and I just kept leaking fluid. TMI - but it felt like I kept peeing myself Sometimes it wasn't too much, but after a while, it would be a lot and I needed to change the pad and underwear. I wasn't really prepared for it!

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I felt small gushes/leaks. It did not feel like I was pee-ing myself.

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i knew it was a leak because there was meconium in it... it was greenish.

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I had a slow leak when I had DS.

I was 5 days late and I got up to go to the bathroom and when I stood up, I felt a little leakage. It was just a tiny amount. I assumed I peed a little because I had to go to the bathroom bad.

I went back to bed and got up again a couple of hours later to go to the bathroom and the same thing happened when I stood up. I thought there was no way I peed myself again since I didn't have to go to the bathroom again.

I called my OB/GYN when they opened and since I was 5 days late they had me go in that afternoon to test the fluid to see if it was amniotic fluid.

When I got to the office, they couldn't tell from the fluid, but found I was having contractions.

If unsure, I say call your doctor. They can always bring you in to test the fluid.

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My slow leak definitely felt different than dampness, it was like tiny gushes but not a constant flow. When it broke for real it was big gushes.

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i had spurts and it felt like i was peeing myself and i had no control.

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They say that if you aren't sure if your water broke or you're just leaking pee that you should smell it (kinda gross, but does the trick). Urine (esp. from a preggo!) has a distinct odor- if there is no odor, it's most likely your water breaking! GL!!

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I was literally leaking fluid.....like peeing but with no effort....and almost constant.

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for me it felt like I peed myself when laughing... not a lot but a little ya know.

It was warm and very very low pressure. Like I was 'leaking' hahaha

It would stop then start again. At first I thought I just needed to wee some more but nothing came out. Then I went to lay back down and I felt it again.

Not enough to soak through the bed just wet my undies a little bit barely.

Then I went to the hospital sitting on a towel. About an hour into the stay I really started to leak heavily. After the majority of the leaking was done I had contractions start. While I was leaking I was contanstly having to go to the bathroom.. (danged IV)

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I felt almost like I had to pee. I would go pee and then as I stood up it would keep dripping down my leg ( I wa sin labor already, so I assumed it was soemthing that happened).

I would sit down and when I got up a small ( tsp amount) would come out...enough that I felt it. And think I was peeing myself, thought my bladder was irritated.

IT ended up being my water leaking.

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I had a low leak with DS. It felt like I was damp. I went to the bathroom, completely dried myself off and then sat on a leather chair. I put some paper towels down and got up and they were wet.

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I noticed my water broke when I was puttering the house after a shower and I was wearing a robe. I felt a little trickle down my leg-- too little for pee, too much for anything else . I put on a pad and the pad wasn't wet once I got the hospital and they tested it.

Who knows what it would have been if I didn't go right away.. I was 5 days late and was headed there anyway for a check up and a NST.

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My water only starting leaking when my contractions started so I knew I was in labor. I noticed that I was leaking because my underwear kept getting wet and I knew I was not peeing. Before I left to go to the hospital I had tried to lay down and sleep, but after an hour or so I stood up and there was a gush. I thought it was my water breaking, but it wasn't...it was just the leak. My OB eventually broke my water when I was 8cm.

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My OBGYN swears I wasn't leaking, but my panties felt damp all the time, and then I had to be induced because I had low fluid