You may also be given antibiotics to help protect your baby against infection. If your bag of waters breaks more than 3 weeks before your due date, your health care provider may want to have you stay in the hospital to stop labor so you do not have a premature baby. You will discuss the pros and cons of each of these options with your health care provider and make a plan. Your health care provider may recommend waiting for a short time to let your labor start on its own or inducing your labor right away. If your bag of waters breaks within 3 weeks of your due date, your choices depend on how you and your baby are doing. The longer your bag of waters is broken before birth, the more chance there is that your baby could get an infection. You may be asked to come to the office or hospital to be checked. When your bag of waters breaks, you will need to call your health care provider. What happens if my membranes rupture before I am in labor? Your provider will collect a swab of fluid from inside of your vagina to test to see if your membranes are ruptured or not. If the pad gets wet, call your health care provider.
If you are not sure if your bag of waters has broken, put a pad in your underwear and wait for a short time. The leaking fluid is usually a small amount, but you will probably need to wear a pad or keep changing your underwear once it happens. Or you may have just a small trickle of water that makes your underwear feel damp. You may feel a large gush of fluid coming from your vagina that makes your underwear and pants wet. The amniotic fluid is warm like your body temperature, and it does not have any smell. After your membranes rupture, you will continue to leak amniotic fluid until the baby is born. Sometimes women feel or even hear a small pop when their bag of waters breaks. Your health care provider may break your bag of waters for you while you are in labor How will I know when my membranes rupture? When the bag of waters breaks before labor starts, this is called premature rupture of membranes (PROM). Although rare, the bag of waters can break days before labor starts. In about 1 in every 10 women, the membranes rupture several hours before labor starts. The membranes will usually rupture (break) on their own either just before you go into labor or sometime during your labor. When your bag of waters breaks, it is called ruptured membranes. The 2 membranes are stuck together into one sac. The walls of the amniotic sac are made by 2 membranes called the chorion and amnion. The amniotic sac also protects your baby from infections.
The sac holds the amniotic fluid (water) that protects your baby and gives your baby room to move around. The amniotic sac-also called the membranes or bag of waters-is a sac that surrounds your baby in your uterus (womb) during pregnancy.
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