I received the RSV vaccine today and really want baby boy to cook 2 more weeks so he gets some antibodies. They checked my cervix today and I am 1 cm dilated and I had some blood from that but it’s mostly done, just some light brown on the toilet paper now. I’m also drinking some decaf coffee because that always makes my urine smell like coffee for a bit-I figure that might help me tell the difference.

I am currently sitting on paper towels myself to see what happens. Well I felt damp again, water on the labia. (I am 37 weeks technically today since it’s after midnight). My scent has been stronger in recent weeks. I drink a LOT of water though so unless I just woke up my pee doesn’t really smell like urine most of the time and is just about clear.

Patted dry, smelled of… vagina? Not bad just vagina. I took my nightly shower and thought maybe I didn’t dry my vagina area well enough because I felt quite damp but definitely on my inner labia while laying in bed. My next pregnancy I’m going to make sure I have nitrazine strips (pH strips) available to test because it’s so hard. It made all the difference for me and I hope it helps you. Again, I know I’m sharing a lot of TMI, but honestly, the day I went to the ER, someone else posted here about their experience (very similar to mine) and it made me feel like I wasn’t crazy for calling my doctor. I had to advocate for myself and my baby, and I’m lucky because if I didn’t go to the ER to get checked I might have developed an infection. I would hold the towel to my crotch while I was getting up from sitting because that’s when I would “leak” the most. When I soaked through a 2-3 layers of paper towel in a single patch, I felt it wasn’t pee/sweat. By Saturday I was convinced it wasn’t me peeing - probably TMI but I would sit on a stack of paper towel on my couch without anything on my bottom half. At my 37 week appointment on a Tuesday my doctor just said I was peeing/sweating. I had my baby at 38 weeks this past April because I had a small leak.

Amniotic fluid test strip turns blue