How do midwives check waters have gone?
I think I've got the opportunity to go through my notes from Jak's birth and I want to know how the midwife tells that your waters have gone. I don't know whether it's when they do an internal, or whether they just take your word for it?
Em + Jak x x x
[Modified by: EmilyB on 23 February 2010 18:16:48 ]
Em + Jak x x x
[Modified by: EmilyB on 23 February 2010 18:16:48 ]
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I've always thought I should've insisted on having a scan or something, or that my midwife should've known, I think it's part of teh reason I can't get over Jak's birth and I'm in the state I am now.
sarah
Thank you loads x x x
I had my baby less than 24 hours later though, and my waters popped just a few mins before she was born. So I still don't know if it was a gush of the hindwaters or wee (though tmi it wasn't yellow and stinky like wee would be).
I'm not sure of your story hun but will a MW or consultant go over your notes with you? Was it that you were induced because they thought your waters had gone but in reality they hadn't? I hope you can get some answers hun. xxx
Contractions slowly got worse along with more water (went through LOADS of pads). You normally know as the smell of it is strange; almost like semen (or was that just my imagination!) and no matter how hard you clench it still comes!
Hope you get some answers hon xxxx
Lea - that' seactly it, I was induced because my waters had gone and I didn't start contracting on my own. I've gone over and over it in my head, pretty much once a day since Jak was born three months ago, and I am convinced they should've checked. My midwife scared the crap out of me and harped on about Group B strep, telling me about a girl she'd delivered 16 years earlier who was deaf and had serious learning difficulties because of GBS, so I was petrified and just went along with what everyone said. Jak got stuck when I got to pushing - I ended up having him delivered by forceps. I can't help but think he got stuck because he wasn't ready in the first place, and every day I go over and over what I should've done - I should've insisted they check my waters had gone. I'm hoping they'll go through my notes with me, I've got to go and see the doc about it and hopefully he'll tell me how I get it arranged.
When she examined me the morning after my waters had started to leak, she said he'd ruptured the waters by having his face turned in the wrong direction and he broke them with his nose. Thinking back, I've not got a clue how that makes sense if I wasn't dilated?