how long after your water breaks should a baby be born?
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In cases where your baby would be premature, they may survive just fine for weeks with proper monitoring and treatment, usually in a hospital setting. In cases where your baby is at least 37 weeks, current research suggests that it may be safe to wait 48 hours (and sometimes longer) for labor to start on its own.
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Pregnant women have long been told that when their water breaks, they should be ready to deliver the baby within 24 hours to avoid infection. But a small new study suggests labor may not always need to be induced.
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Artificially Breaking Your Water in Labor is Overrated - Here's Why. Picture this: you're in active labor (after six centimeters dilation) and working hard, but managing alright. Your water has not yet broken.
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But most babies do enjoy being in water and their reflexes mean they will be able to do primitive swimming strokes. You don't have to wait until your baby is immunised to take them swimming. New mothers should not go swimming until at least 6 weeks after the birth, or when they have stopped bleeding.
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Six weeks after giving birth Generally, to get back to proper, high-impact exercise like running or your much-loved zumba class, it's best to wait until your six-week postnatal check-up . It will also depend what type of birth you had.
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Most women go into labour within 24 hours of their waters breaking. You'll be offered an induction if you don't because, without amniotic fluid, there's an increased risk of infection for your baby.
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If your waters break before you go into labour Most women go into labour on their own within 24 hours.
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Most women go into labour on their own within 24 hours. If this doesn't happen your midwife will offer to induce labour and you'll be advised to give birth in hospital, if you're not there already. This is because your waters breaking before labour starts increases your baby's risk of infection.
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Either way, you'll likely meet your baby soon! If you leak amniotic fluid and your membranes rupture earlier than 37 weeks, and your practitioner determines it's too soon for your baby to be safely delivered, you'll most likely receive antibiotics to ward off infection and may need to be hospitalized.
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During the natural process of labor, the water breaks when the baby's head puts pressure on the amniotic sac, causing it to rupture. Women will notice either a gush or a trickle of water coming out of the vagina. Many doctors say that women must give birth within 12–24 hours of the water breaking.
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If your water breaks, but you have no contractions, your doctor may discuss labor induction with you. Intervention to help bring on contractions can reduce the risk of infection, because this risk increases with time between the water breaking and contractions starting.
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What are the risks of waiting for labour to start? If your baby is not born within the next 24 hours after your waters breaking, he/ she will need to stay in hospital for 12 hours after birth so they can be closely monitored for any signs of an infection.
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If your contractions start but your waters have not broken, wait until the contractions are coming regularly, about 4-5 minutes apart and lasting for about 60 seconds and/or that they feel so strong that you want support from a midwife. If you live far away from hospital, make sure you leave plenty of time.
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What are the benefits of waiting for labour to start? 6 out of 10 women will go into labour naturally in the next 24 hours after their waters have broken, and most will go into labour within 48 hours. This means that you avoid the risks of being induced.
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If your cervix has opened up to at least 2-3 centimetres dilated and the baby's head is well engaged (low down in your pelvis), your waters will be broken (see below under Artifical Rupture of Membranes).
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You'll need to stay in hospital for at least 12 hours after the birth so your baby can be checked for signs of infection.
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Almost all babies are born within three or four weeks of the due date. If a baby hasn't been born by then, the risk of being stillborn (dead at birth) increases. Babies are very rarely born that late, though, because labor is usually induced two weeks after the due date at the latest.