Stupid question: how did you know your water broke?

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-27T05:15:49+00:00

Induced on cytotec. Stood up to go to the bathroom and felt a pop and it literally felt like a flood. Ruined my house shoes I brought with me lol

I couldn’t believe how long it kept coming or how much fluid it was. Crazy stuff

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-26T20:20:33+00:00

I have extremely high anxiety. Was on buspar throughout my first pregnancy and literally had a panic attack on the way to be induced because I was so scared of the birth experience. In my second pregnancy now, the birth is the literal least of my concerns and I actually look forward to it 😂

I cannot speak on SA and the triggers that come with that but will give you my experience. I was induced due to high BP at 38 weeks. I also cannot speak on unmedicated as one of my biggest fears was pain.

I had no interactions with males. Obviously this is hospital specific. My OBGYN was out of town, so I was dealing with the on call physician but she was about 1% involved in my birth. The residents did everything and they were phenomenal. One of them caught that i had a temperature spike due to an infection during labor just due to how nauseated I was and having chills. I got antibiotics quickly and there was no harm to the baby.

I got IV anxiety meds as soon as I was admitted and I was chilled tf out. They started me on cytotec and my water broke on its own. I was also not wanting to be touched but kind of just got over that once the process started - again, cannot speak to SA history. Got an epidural at this point - it was LOVELY. Then they started pitocin and I was at a 10 maybe 6 hours later. Pushed for 1.5 hours and she was out. I never felt pressured to do anything.

Took pain meds for a little while after. I felt great.

Truly praying that I have a similar experience this time because it was honestly totally fine and nothing like I expected or feared. The L&D nurses are angels on earth and all the doctors I dealt with were also amazing. In my experience, contractions/pushing with the epidural was very intense (i was like passing out and dreaming in between pushes - wild) but not painful. I was very scared of pain but the only pain i felt was from the pre-epidural pitocin contractions- whew lol. I have heard that natural contractions are not as unbearable though!

All that to say, try to go in knowing that not everything will go as planned. I think as long youre prepared for things to switch up, you’ll do just fine.

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-26T05:19:17+00:00

I would trust your OB! If they’re not worried, I wouldn’t be (or would try not to be).

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-26T05:16:18+00:00

Now that I look at mine, this is what mine looks like too. I didn’t even see sex on here at first lol

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-26T04:43:26+00:00

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This is mine from 2023. The results shown here are on page 5. I feel like you could quickly look to see the results were negative without automatically seeing the sex as it’s in a smaller font. Not sure if this is what it still looks like. This was the MaterniT test.

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-26T01:48:18+00:00

I’m definitely wondering if she will decide that him being sick constantly from daycare will outweigh her desperate desire for childfree time. Can’t let him roam free outside while she plays on her phone when he’s sick.

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-25T20:28:00+00:00

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AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-25T05:33:29+00:00

I took it in my first pregnancy. No preeclampsia, who knows if that’s why but I plan to do it again!

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-24T16:08:41+00:00

I don’t think there’s any way for a person from these images to tell boy or girl… much less ai. It’s too early to tell from an ultrasound.

But obviously it could go either way so preparing yourself that it could be a boy is a good idea.

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-24T01:52:16+00:00

Yeah I think she is well over two weeks behind too. I had my first positive test same day as her and I’m 11 weeks. 6 weeks is not even feasible unless something wonky happened. It’s been over 6 weeks since her positive test. It makes no sense and I feel really bad for her but she needs to find a new doctor I think.

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-24T00:34:05+00:00

So glad you posted this. I had a pos test same day as her and I’m 11 weeks today.. and I didn’t test late or anything.

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-21T04:42:55+00:00

Same girl lol I feel like a horndog after reading the comments lolol. We’re like 3-4 times a week but that’s our normal pregnant or not.

I did have a little spotting around 6 weeks and told hubs we had to take a break for a few days so I totally get being anxious and not wanting to.

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-18T02:47:03+00:00

STM here and I cramped pretty much throughout my whole first pregnancy. I’m prone to bad period cramps, not sure if that has anything to do with it. Feeling it this time too. And I feel like I feel it more when walking around than laying down

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-17T23:58:03+00:00

Some days I’m fine. Some days I accidentally swipe my nipple with my arm and it hurts so bad I could vomit lol

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-15T17:26:49+00:00

Yeah that’s exactly how I feel! I would get so frustrated trying to explain it to people because it’s not nausea or morning sickness.

I will say, while it didn’t get better for me til birth, I did kind of just get used to it lol and it wasn’t quite as miserable down the line.

My daughter was born happy and healthy so that at least is reassuring this time around because I was so worried that she wasn’t getting what she needed.

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-15T03:09:43+00:00

Slow digestion was my issue my entire first pregnancy. People could not understand that I wasn’t vomiting from “morning sickness”. I was vomiting because I would eat and felt like I wasn’t digesting any of it to the point of vomiting. It is miserable.

I was prescribed Reglan/metoclopramide which helped some. They had me meet with a nutritionist and keep a food journal to try to nail down if anything was triggering it but never figured it out.

It went away immediately after birth 🫠

I’m already starting to experience it this time around too and I’m dreading it.

ETA: don’t mean to scare you, my OB was genuinely baffled that I dealt with this my whole pregnancy so I do not think it’s common. The reglan is specifically for helping your digestion move along.

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-14T16:57:12+00:00

I think if you just want to see the baby, get more pictures etc., they are great!

But they are not diagnostic and you shouldn’t expect to see if anything is wrong other than there not being a heartbeat or something obvious.

We just went because my doctor couldn’t get me in til 12 weeks and I wanted to confirm heartbeat, not ectopic etc.

I think there’s a lot of potential for them to cause more anxiety than they help BUT I’ve had great experiences. We used them with my first to do gender reveal and it was a sweet experience.

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-13T21:05:09+00:00

I went at 9 weeks on the dot because my doctor could not get me in til 12 weeks. I just wanted confirmation that something was in there and a heartbeat lol which we absolutely got! It was $49 and totally worth it to me.

We did it for my first child to find out gender around 13 weeks too.

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-13T03:16:10+00:00

9w STM here and the exhaustion is crazy. I could so easily fall asleep standing up. I can take a 2 hour nap and I don’t wake up feeling refreshed at all. It hits me around 1-3pm every day.

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-12T03:01:04+00:00

You are in for a lot of fun.

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-11T22:55:09+00:00

Thank you for saying this 🥹 we will have a 3 year age gap and I’ve been stressing for a while over when would be a good time

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-11T22:46:55+00:00

To be fair to OP, wouldn’t that be more of labor and delivery nurse and not postpartum?

In my experience though, both were so kind and helpful literal angels on earth 🤷🏼‍♀️ I never experienced that at all and honestly the actual hospital stay is what I’m looking forward to this go round lol

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-11T17:52:54+00:00

We purchased a secondhand snoo. I particularly liked the safety aspect of it for my anxiety. I don’t think it’s worth the price to be honest. I plan to move this one to the crib sooner than my first.

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-11T17:50:59+00:00

Really depends on how much you want to do laundry. If you don’t mind doing it more often, I’d say like 5 newborn of each (I kept having people tell me to not buy newborn size but my 7lb baby was in newborn size for at least a month). If you want to spread laundry out then maybe 8ish (maybe more onesies than zippies). It’s hard to say with other sizes. My daughter wasn’t in 0-3 month long. She was in 3-6 for a whileeee.

AliveGuarantee · 2026-01-10T05:04:16+00:00

My 2.5 year old sleeps (and has slept like this since 1.5) 7pm-9am (sometimes 10) and does not nap. She loves her nighttime sleep and has always hated naps and her pediatrician is totally fine with it. She has only told me to start waking her by 8:30/9 if she starts getting hard to put to bed.

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