Light's Effect. Light is one of the most important external factors that can affect sleep. It does so both directly, by making it difficult for people to fall asleep, and indirectly, by influencing the timing of our internal clock and thereby affecting our preferred time to sleep.
The forewaters are released when the amnion ruptures. This is commonly known as the time when a woman's water breaks. When this occurs during labour at term, it is known as spontaneous rupture of membranes. If the rupture precedes labour at term, however, it is referred to as premature rupture of membranes.
If your waters have been broken for more than 48 hours, and your labour hasn't started yet, you should think seriously about what you want to do. The risk of you or your baby getting an infection increases the longer it is between your waters breaking and your baby's birth.