![]() Your water shouldn’t have a crazy different smell to it. O – Odor: What does your water smell like? They will treat the baby after birth to ensure everything is okay.) Learn more about your options if you’re GBS positive during pregnancy here. (If your baby comes sooner than that, it’s okay. They will give you the first round once you are checked in and another round 4 hours later. That means that you will need to be at the hospital for 4-hours. Penicillin takes about 30 minutes to go through your IV each round, and they administer it every 4 hours. If women are GBS positive, you will want to go to the hospital sooner since you will need at least two rounds of medication (penicillin) before the baby is born. (Hospital standards) If your water has green, black, and/or brown in it, that means there is meconium, and you need to head to the hospital to ensure your baby is okay. If your water is clear, pink, or pinky-red, you have up to 8-hours to get to the hospital. It means that your cervix is dilating, which is what it needs to do to get you to push. If you see pink or pinky-red, that’s normal. This means that the baby could be in distress. If your water is clear, that’s a good thing, but if it has green, black, or brown in it, it means your baby has probably passed their first poop (called meconium). C – Color: What is the color of your water? When your water breaks, you want to remember this acronym, COAT. Now, if your water has broken before contractions have started, that’s a little bit of a different story. This will significantly reduce your chances of being sent back home. This is why I usually recommend that women go to the hospital when their labor is 4-1-1 or 3-1-1. You can stay home longer to avoid this from happening. Women think they are ready to go to the hospital and have reached a certain point in their labor, and their labor slows down or stalls once they are at the hospital. Unfortunately, I have seen it happen several times. When you are in an unfamiliar place, even when trying to relax your body, it tenses up and stalls your labor since it’s in a foreign place. Your body feels more relaxed and safe, and labor can progress faster. Why is that? When you are at home, you are in a familiar and comfortable place. Women also don’t know that their contractions will likely start spacing out once they get to the hospital if they go straight at 5-1-1. Many women don’t know that 5-1-1 is when you have finished early labor and just entered into active labor, and you still have hours to go until you meet your baby. Then as soon as it has been an hour, and that’s the consistent pattern, they head straight to the hospital. When women hear this, they will wait until they have reached that 5-1-1 pattern. ![]() (I recommend downloading a contraction timer on your smartphone to keep track of the duration and frequency.)
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