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At around 5:00am in the morning, I woke up to use the toilet and noticed that my discharge was a little more watery than normal. It was also pretty clear. And it did not matter how much I wiped, the tissue would still be wet. I didn't think much of it and just went back to bed. When I woke up a few hours later, I was still having the same problem. And it might have also gotten a little worse. So I thought, there's something wrong, I'm not sure if it was just a clear normal discharge or it was amniotic fluid. So around 10:00 a.m. I called my ob-gyn doctor's office and they told me that if I thought it was the amniotic fluid then I need to be going to the hospital to get checked out. I called my husband to tell him about it and he thought it was kink of silly that the doctor's office can't test me there instead of sending me to the hospital.

We decided to go to the hospital to get checked out, but first we had a few errands to run. The day was very cold and it also started to snow a little. I had my hospital bags packed, but decided not to take it to the hospital with me just incase the discharge was not a big deal. I figured I would just have my husband run home and get it later if I ended up staying at the hospital since we lived only fifteen minutes away. After we were finished running our errands, we headed for the hospital at around 12:30 p.m.

At the hospital, we went to the emergency room. We really didn't know where to enter and if my situation was an emergency or not, but they took care of us. The people at the front counter called the labor and delivery unit and within five to ten minutes, someone came down with a wheelchair for me. I asked if I could walk instead of ride in the wheelchair, but the guy insisted it was procedure for me to ride in the wheelchair. So I sat on the wheelchair and was pushed for about a few minutes until we reached the labor and deliver unit of the hospital. I was taken to an area where other pregnant women were also getting checked out before taking them to the actual delivery room. It was basically a big room with four different tiny rooms, separated by curtains. Each room behind the curtain had a chair and a reclining hospital chair and all the computers and monitors, etc. that the nurses would need to evaluate a woman's progress in labor.

I was given one of the tiny rooms behind the curtain and waited with my husband for a nurse to come. A few minutes later, a nurse came to check me into the system and took all of my information. She also did a pelvic check to see how dilated I was. I was 4cm dilated and 50% effaced. She asked a series of questions from alcohol, smoking, drugs, etc. as well as family history of diseases. Then a few minutes later another nurse came to test if the fluid I was leaking was indeed amniotic fluid. It was not very easy nor comfortable for me while the nurse was trying to get a sample of the amniotic fluid from me. She had a strip of paper that was supposed to turn purple when contacted with amniotic fluid. She could not get enough amniotic fluid on the test strip to determine if it was amniotic fluid. We went into the restroom and I basically tried to pee the fluid out while she would try to catch it on the piece of test strip. This time it worked and she had plenty of the amniotic fluid to cover the strip of paper and it did turn purple. She said I was having my baby that day.

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