Don't you dare break my Water

Been at the midwifes today again. I think I'm week41 day 2 or so. Anyhow, we had a good time, she said sometime between today and the next twelve days it's probably going to happen that I'll have my baby. Funny, twelve days! Sounds like a long time, doesn't it? But really, this sounded better than hearing: it's gonna be at least another week.

They told me I don't have to come in until the contractions are about 2min apart and lasting for 60-90sec. By the way, you count contractions this way:

• You count how far they are apart from the beginning of one to the beginning of the next.
• You count how long they are from the beginning of one to the end of it.

Usually, a woman has contractions first, then it takes place that the water breaks. Some women, the water does not break. In that case doctors might break the water, which can end up with pretty painful contractions and labor. Also, as a woman is nearly all the way dialated without her water broken yet, it is not the babies head, but the membrane pushing the cervix open. After breaking the water at this stage the cervix closes again.

It is much easier on the woman to birth the baby with the membrane intact. That sounds really nice to me, just take the bubble off later. Thinking about it, puppy dogs get born in their membrane and the mom chews it off. Now I'm hoping that my water is not going to break and I can say I have a Bubble Birth. That would be so cool.