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How can I get my water to break?
If your water hasn't broken during labor, the doctor has a tool that looks like a crochet
hook specifically for that purpose.
I want my water to break now.
That isn't a good idea unless you are inducing labor, too. The amniotic sack protects the
baby from infection, and you don't want it to break unless the baby is about to come
out.
Let's say I was in labor. How could I get it to break?
Walk around a lot. As the baby shifts down in the birth canal, it should break.
I've heard it can break for other reasons.
It sometimes breaks as the baby goes head first down in the ***, before she has serious
contractions. There are women who wear *** pads in their ninth month of pregnancy because
they are afraid others will think they wet their pants.
There are a lot of stories of children thinking she had an accident, as well as waking up
to a soaking bed.
It isn't that much water. Well, it isn't even water but urine and other outputs from the
kid.
I heard that breaking the water early makes the labor go faster.
No, but when the contractions come down on an empty uterus, they hurt a lot more.
But they do more work.
That depends on how dilated you are. If you aren't dilated, the contractions take about
as long to widen the *** so that the baby comes out.
Why would the doctor need to break the water if it doesn't matter?
Because few women can push a baby out with the amniotic sack still filled. The cool pictures
you see on Reddit of a baby in the amniotic sack are usually Cesareans.
As are the twins that doesn't even know they've been born.
If they'd been pushed through the birth canal, squished and pulled for a few hours, they'd
know they’d arrived. But breaking your own water won’t speed that process up much,
but will make it hurt more.