If you break your water too soon, which is medically known as premature rupture of membranes (PROM), it can influence how your labour goes. It might make delivery go faster or make it more difficult, ...

I was in my 36th week of pregnancy when my water broke, leaking amniotic fluid all over my couch and floor. I didn't know it at the time, but I was experiencing PPROM: preterm premature rupture of ...