Most MSE place for your waters to break!

MrsTinks

You know thinking about this then I'd say I think the paramedics and ambulance technicians would rather a labouring woman called them if genuinely afraid even if it turns out there is no urgent need to be taken to hospital, than say like my ex had a woman call 99 and insist on an ambulance for.... wait for it.... a plaster for her daughter who'd scraped her knee - she didn't wanna go out to the shops as it was raining... The ambulance HAD to come out (I think rules have changed since...)
I lived with a paramedic for quite a while and I can honestly say they'd rather have 10 calls where they are not "really" needed than find out there is 1 person who SHOULD have called them and didn't because they were afraid of a fee or wasting the ambulance time...
What ambulance crews hate with a passion is drunks who get picked up AT LEAST once a week by them or the police. It's scary how many people my ex got on first name terms with because he was out picking them up THAT often!
Actually the time he delivered a baby in the back of the ambulance caused a smile a mile wide eventhough he was VERY nervous at the time Cost cream cakes the next day for the whole station mind so not very MSE for us! :rotfl:
There are so many "abuses" of ambulance time that people who are scared or worried and going into labour is the least of them...
Heck there are people who call the ambulance just to have someone come and talk to them!

cazziebo

mookiandco wrote: »

I'm a solicitor and I intend to work right to the end of my pregnancy. I am always representing clients in court and my biggest fear is my waters breaking whilst I am in court in front of a judge. I think knowing me I would probably carry on with the case - court and my clients time is too precious!!!

A friend of mine (who is a GP oddly enough) was so scared of her waters going in public she carried a jar of pickled onions around and planned to drop them if it happened when she was out....

Just to add waters breaking isn't an emergency - I was told you had to be in hospital within 12 hours. Plenty of time to coerce someone into a lift!

vickyjayne

when i had my dd i was in labour for 5 days and was 8cm dilated for 14 hours so the contractions were every min for that long, my teeth hurt from sucking gas and air for 24 hours.
waters didnt break until an hour before i had to have an emergency c-section so at least i didnt have no mess to clean up lol

skylight

I think the issue is that everyone is different. New mums think that waters breaking means baby is imminent, but a "text book" baby isn't! But it can be... but its not....

As I said, I personally would call one - I barely notice contractions even when monitored in hospital they can be over half an hour apart and its not what I call terrible pain. Once my waters break though I have minutes before baby comes out (one was less than that!), so actually baby would probably be here before I called an ambulance anyway!

This time round I have some minor complications. I am not leaving the house - its safer to be indoors than shopping! And if I am on my own, then an ambulance will be called relatively quickly.

Most of us know what is an emergency (not just labour!) and know what to and what not to call an ambulance for. But knowing several paramedics they too tell me they would prefer to get somewhere and not be needed than be there a minute too late.

sooty&sweep

Mine broke at home for my firstborn.

He was born by emergency caesarian 32 hours later as he didn't want to come out !!!

schoolrunmum

I drove myself to hospital both times- first time my DH was in LA,second time he was in Hong Kong. Joys of being married to a LH pilot eh? Dumped the car on the double yellows outside Maternity..worried about getting a ticket so gave keys to staff and someone kindly moved it for me..ever tried changing gear in a 911 during a contraction?? Not easy...

ella_ella_ella

I love pregnancy/birth stories. My waters broke in bed in the middle of the night about an hour after coming back from the hospital because we thought my waters had broken!!

Baby had pooed, it was snowing, icy and we had to turn around and go the long way to hospital but calling an ambulance didnt even enter my head Having said that, if i was alone and scared in the middle of the night and thought the baby was coming i wouldnt hesitate in calling an ambulance.

As it was, it was over 18 hours from my waters breaking until my beautiful daughter was born

Sami_Bee

I've been told if I don't want a HB for this (my 2nd) to go to hosp as soon as I get any signs, If I was home alone I'd call a taxi and just tell them I wanted to go to town then once I'm in the taxi tell them the hosp, once I'm in that taxi there's no way they're gonna not take me!
Ps my waters went on the loo last time not a drop was spilled :A
they trickled a little after but a tena pad and sat on a towel in the car just in case but there wasn't anything to clean up and was a saturday morning so Hubby was with me yey!

feelinggood_2

I've got no problem getting a taxi if I need to - my favourite driver took his wife to hospital in the back of his cab when she was in labour! He's an angel, he looked really panicked when I booked a cab for the hospital the other day, he thought something was wrong. Wonder if his wife minds him telling the customers her birth story!

tiamai_d

I got a free teddy bear from boots!

But no, my waters didn't break there. I had had a horrible emergency c section at 33 weeks after a placentral abruption, been 'out of it' for 3 days, baby was in neonatal intensive care.... Shudder to think what I cost the NHS, but hey, they saved my life and DS2's.

It was a week after I had DS2 and I had to go into boots for some essentials, like bottles and baby grows and what not (Hadn't expected him so soon). I asked a member fo staff for the premature sized babygrows as there were none out, stood talking to another member of staff who asked who I was buying for, I said me, told her what happened and the manager gave me a free teddy for DS2 (he still has it).

My friends Mum is the manager in another boots store and has said its a myth, you get nothing but a seat and a phonecall if your waters break!!!