Premature Rupture

A few quick words on Premature Rupture of Membranes. Here is what Amy has learned about early water breaks. If your water breaks as early as mine did, you will either deliver soon afterward or you could go for weeks. One reason water breaks is that you have an infection, that is why you would possibly deliver within 24 hours of the initial breakage. If not, who knows why it broke and you could have many weeks. The low amniotic fluid is damaging to your baby but not fatal. Your umbilical cord is carrying most of the load. The amniotic fluid is necessary for your baby's lungs to develop however, so no fluid makes it impossible for their lungs to work outside of the womb. Luckily for me my fluids stayed at a 4 the whole time (what does 4 mean, I don't know, higher than 3?). Your baby is in danger, my OB said the prognosis is NOT GOOD. I was scared into never standing when I didn't have to use the restroom. You should keep as much fluid in as possible and gravity, although helpful when you want to stick to the earth, not so much when you are leaking amniotic fluids. Doctors will not stop labor because labor is a sign of infection, if you are infected it can be really bad for your uterus and the possibility of keeping it, and an infection can add to the problems your baby is born with. So from 19 weeks 6 days to 24 weeks we knew if we went into labor there would be no chance for our son. At 24 weeks the prognosis is not-so-good. Each weeks that passes gives your baby another chance. Our sweet baby made it inside for 26 weeks.