# pregnancy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 1, 2013, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162 "2013-05-01T00:40:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/121 "2013-05-14T00:25:50Z")
> [@supergoose](#): > > I’m guessing she meant “pretty strange name for a boy.” Otherwise, it doubly doesn’t make sense. I did mean boy:smack: I blame baby brain. You know your brain actually shrinks during pregnancy. True fact. I am having a girl and naming her Celeste Louise 😃 > [@http://www.oprah.com/health/The-Female-Brain](#): > > The mommy brain > > ``` > The brain shrinks during pregnancy—it does not lose cells but changes metabolism and restructures. Then in the final one to two weeks, the brain begins to increase in size again and construct maternal circuits. It does not return to its former size until about six months after giving birth. "We don't know what it's doing but we think it has something to do with redeveloping the mommy brain's circuits, but also maybe even letting the fetus 'snack' on the mommy's brain," Dr. Brizendine says. > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/122 "2013-05-14T00:27:08Z")
Dhjkshduh d uh ausk ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/123 "2013-05-14T00:27:41Z")
“Letting the fetus snack on mommy’s brain”? :eek: Holy heck, is your baby unborn or undead? Wishing you the best of luck **April**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/124 "2013-05-14T00:28:24Z")
That last line of the quote freaks me out a little. I feel like I am gestating a ZOMBIE BABY!! ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/125 "2013-05-14T16:04:29Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > **BOO!** > > . . . Maybe not, but if she’d laughed as hard as I did I bet it would have worked! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/126 "2013-05-14T20:17:01Z")
What does it feel like when your water breaks? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/127 "2013-05-14T20:26:16Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > What does it feel like when your water breaks? 😕 Don’t you know? Thought this was your third time. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/128 "2013-05-14T20:35:18Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > What does it feel like when your water breaks? Feels like you peed yourself but you didn’t, and it doesn’t smell like pee. Could be a trickle, could be a gush. Sometimes it trickles a bit but then the baby’s head blocks the tear and it won’t leak again for a while. > [@](#): > > ``` > If you're leaking urine, the fluid will likely have a distinctive odor. > If you're leaking vaginal fluid, the discharge will probably be clear or white to yellowish. It can be rather sloppy, requiring multiple changes of underwear or panty liners in a single day. > If you're leaking amniotic fluid or your water has broken, the fluid is likely to saturate your underwear or panty liner over and over again. The fluid may be clear or contain white flecks, perhaps tinged with blood or mucus. It isn't likely to smell, however. > > ``` If you’re not sure, call your doctor/midwife and see what she wants you to do. In the meantime, don’t put anything up your vagina - no tampons\*, no fingers, no penises. If your membranes have ruptured, you don’t want anything up there that isn’t sterile, 'cause it could introduce bacteria into the uterus. \*There’s a bit of advice going around the internet to put a tampon in and see if it comes out wet. Pee won’t make a tampon wet, but amniotic fluid leaking will. Bad idea, though. If only tampons were sterile, it’d be a great idea. Since they’re not sterile, it presents an infection risk. ETA: **BrainGlutton** , many women never have a spontaneous rupture of their membranes. The doctor may choose to break the bag when you’re lying in bed and don’t really experience it like they do in the movies; a midwife is more likely to leave it alone and let it break on its own as the baby comes out, and then everything is just all wet and gooey and you can’t tell the water breaking from the baby arriving. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/129 "2013-05-14T20:39:39Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > 😕 Don’t you know? Thought this was your third time. It’s my second pregnancy and I was doped up and laying in the hospital bed the first time with my twins. So yeah, I really don’t know. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/130 "2013-05-14T21:21:00Z")
What **WhyNot** said. My first delivery, it was pretty obvious, as one moment I was in dry pajamas and the next moment I was most decidedly not. Actual birth happened 4 hours later. With my second I was already in the hospital as contractions were pretty steady and the doctor did the job. Side note: During my Lamaze classes, the instructor gave us a suggestion to prevent embarrassment in case this happened when not at home: First thing when you get to the supermarket put a large glass jar of pickles in the cart. If your water breaks, quickly drop the jar on top of the puddle and exit - quickly. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/131 "2013-05-18T03:36:27Z")
Any updates, **April R?** ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/132 "2013-05-18T03:38:39Z")
Little bit is still kicking from the inside. I have my next appt Tuesday. My one on Thursday was uneventful. Still only 1 cm. I figure, since the twins were 5lbs 10 oz and 4lbs 11 oz that she is going to have to get bigger (she is measuring at about 7.5lbs) before my body feels like it is time to get her out. Oh well. On the bright side my belly button is starting to become less of an outie 😛 ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/133 "2013-05-18T03:41:57Z")
Ah, so she’s “descended?” Another term is “engaged,” meaning the wee one’s head is actually settling in the right position for delivery. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/134 "2013-05-18T03:44:53Z")
Yep, the doctor says she is in position 🙂 The bay doors just won’t unlock!!! ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/135 "2013-05-18T03:47:59Z")
Thinking of you, April R. I think your little Celeste is going to be a stubborn one. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/136 "2013-05-18T03:56:46Z")
Yep, but I deserve it. I am as stubborn as they come, and my DD Alli is also a spitfire, so she will be in good company. My poor son and husband are in for it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/137 "2013-05-18T07:42:59Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > Yep, the doctor says she is in position 🙂 The bay doors just won’t unlock!!! _Open the pod bay doors, Celeste._ ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/138 "2013-05-19T00:51:45Z")
TMI warning I just lost my mucus plug. Gross, 😛 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/139 "2013-05-19T01:11:47Z")
Woo-hoo! So, given that information…no, your water probably didn’t break 4 days ago. 😉 Here’s hoping it will tonight! ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162/140 "2013-05-19T01:22:44Z")
Something is going on. But no contractions strangely enough. Its been nothing but contractions for a month then nothing the last few days then this. Pregnancy really is unpredictable! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy/657162.md?page=8)