How can you tell if your bladder is full?

How can you tell if your water has broken if you had a slight drip down your leg but ran to the bathroom and emptied a full bladder after waking up from a nap if you are 38 weeks and 3 cm dilated?

• Answer:

  You will want to reassure yourself by a doctor's word. However it's very common to slightly urinate on yourself this far along. In your sleep the baby could have kicked/hit your bladder and caused this. Then when you woke up from being startled, you went and emptied your bladder. When your bag of waters breaks there is a very distinctive smell--it's very pungent. If you trickle a little more afterwards and it's not coming from where urine does, then your water is broken.