Pippa, I think I need you to talk to one of my guests...

eris esoteric · #1 08-20-2007, 02:52 AM

Pregnant lady just asked to be moved to a new room because she woke up in the middle of the night and realized her bed was wet.

We have determined that, although it is raining, and she's on the top floor of the building, the wet bed was not caused by any sort of leak.

**pippadaisy**[$] · #2 08-20-2007, 03:36 AM

Ma'am, is the ENTIRE bed wet or just one area?\

Are your pajamas also wet?

Hmmm...

**hadassahchana**[$] · #3 08-20-2007, 06:48 AM

Uh-oh. How pregnant, and has she waddled off to th ER yet?

eris esoteric · #4 08-20-2007, 08:32 AM

I don't think quite THAT pregnant yet, Cindy.

And, yes, apparently her pajamas were soaked.

There's REASONS I don't ever wanna work in housekeeping.

**pippadaisy**[$] · #5 08-20-2007, 10:11 AM

LOL Cindy... you think the best. I assume the worst.

I can't count the number of friends who were CONVINCED their water was broken and had actually peed themselves.

**jgibson2**[$] · #6 08-20-2007, 12:37 PM

Rule out rupture of membranes is a BIG draw for most ERs and birthing centers.

Pippa's right, most of them get sent home.

**pippadaisy**[$] · #7 08-20-2007, 01:25 PM

I'm not like most people. I own up to my peeing.

**hadassahchana**[$] · #8 08-20-2007, 01:37 PM

That never would have occured to me! I just assumed it was PROM.

**pippadaisy**[$] · #9 08-20-2007, 01:46 PM

LOL. I assumed she peed herself.

Also could have been those night sweats from the hormone surge. But if she said "soaked" I'm going with the pee.

**mtomm**[$] · #10 08-20-2007, 02:51 PM

Uhumm, well, sometimes you just can't believe you'd pee yourself like that and it doesn't smell like pee. So I'm just saying it is okay for a women to think maybe her water has broke and she goes to the hospital and they send her home and everyone at the party she WAS supposed to go to now knows that she just peed herself and still reminds her about it 13 YEARS later.

I'm just sayin.

**pippadaisy**[$] · #11 08-20-2007, 02:54 PM

:lol:

Sorry Margo. Own the pee!

**hadassahchana**[$] · #12 08-20-2007, 07:08 PM

And did anyone else read about carrying a can of soda everywhere during your last trimester so that if, God forbid, your water should rbeak in a public place, you could dump the soda and claim it was an accident? Yes, I really was that stupid, but only with the first pregnancy. After that, I could only hope that my waters would rupture.

*emeleel* · #13 08-20-2007, 07:16 PM

I always heard it was a jar of pickles.

But soda makes a LOT more sense!

**pippadaisy**[$] · #14 08-20-2007, 08:07 PM

My sister was one of those people whose water broke before labor started. She was always home though.

Leslie2k · #15 08-20-2007, 08:27 PM

I always heard apple juice worked well. I was lucky. I was on the loo when my water broke with #1. I know, TMI. lol

**conradd** · #16 08-20-2007, 08:53 PM

Well, I wish I'd heard that tip. I left my doctor's office disappointed to hear his estimation that I had at least a week, maybe two to go. So, I went shopping and my water broke. I sloshed back to his office and almost clocked him when he suggested I'd just had an accident. I would have had to carry a gallon bottle though - didn't know one body could hold that much fluid. By the time he got around to seeing me, his staff had buckets surrounding the chair I was sitting in.

Leslie, you thought your post had TMI?

Leslie2k · #17 08-20-2007, 08:58 PM

lol- mine was 30 minutes after my doctor told me I was no where near ready. Goes to show just how little they really know...

**jgibson2**[$] · #18 08-20-2007, 11:57 PM

First one was 6am - right after hubby had left for work. I felt a slow leak and hopped into the shower. I was hoping I'd just peed myself because I wasn't ready.

The second time, #1 was trying to sit on my vanished lap. He got frustrated, stood on my knees, turned around and bounced his butt on my backside until the river started flowing. I ran to the bathroom that time too, but I was hoping it was what I thought, because my #2 son was nearly 3 weeks late.

With the last one, the doc ruptured my membranes - but made the mistake of sitting on the edge of the bed when he did it. I got the giggles when the fluid started running off the side of the bed. The low side, because it had a doctor sitting on it. I think he had to change his shoes even.

**hadassahchana**[$] · #19 08-21-2007, 12:31 AM

Mine always ruptured at home, too!

Ok, because I had home births. Still- with my first I was terrified that I would like erupt or something.

Funniest water story - I was doing labour support with one of my teen mums. The hospital nurses were never very nice to my girls becaue they were so young. The nurse on that night was priobably the worst- she never had kids but knew everything about labour and how it felt etc. My teen was telling her that she felt this horrible pressure, and the nurse snarked, got right down in her face and said,"I'm supposed to believe that you know what it feels like to give birth?" and just had time to finish her sentence when the girl's water broke. Broke being the operative word- she was like a fire hydrant, I swear. The nurse was drenched- dripping from head to toe. I managed not to laugh until she left the room in a huff. And of course, the OB came in and asked what I had done to the nurse this time. He knew me too well.

brian_igo · #20 08-21-2007, 01:05 AM

Think I'm gonna send a Hallmark card to my Y-chromosome after reading this.

**hadassahchana**[$] · #21 08-21-2007, 01:58 AM

eris esoteric · #22 08-21-2007, 04:05 AM

To all the men on the board, I just want to apologize for forgetting to put this thread in the women's forum.

And to myself, I would like to apologize for checking back on it.