We'd been in bed for about an hour when I felt a pop inside and a trickle of water escape, I stood up and turned on the light to see pale pink water running down my inner thigh. I was excited and suddenly anxious, I told Al that I thought my waters had broken but it was such a tiny amount of liquid I decided to go back to sleep and forget about it. About an hour after this (at 1am) contractions started, they felt like severe period pains and suddenly I lost more water and I knew now that my waters had definitely broken. This was the moment I had been imagining so I plugged my headphones in and began listening to my hypnobirthing cds. I took one long breath with each contraction, just like I had practised. We rang Alice (Al's sister) and our midwife Jennie just to let them know that the action had begun. We told them we'd ring back in the morning when things had progressed......