Thought I should stop sulking and give you all an update. Was dragged admitted to labour ward on Wednesday night with contractions five minutes apart and back pain. Predictably, once I got to hospital they had stopped. They restarted again after about 45 mins or so, but were hopelessly erratic and ranging between the very gentle BH type and absolute monsters, but then started to die off again after an hour or so. Turns out I had blood and nitrites in my urine indicative of a uti (with no symptoms) and they couldn't say either way whether this had caused early labour or was presenting with the same symptoms. Doctor wanted me to stay in overnight for observation in case contractions started again, but discharged myself (they wanted to put me on a fairly bright ward that had another woman being monitored on it with a fetal monitor and another woman with a hacking cough, and all this at 1am) as there was no way I was going to get any sleep.
Came home and have had nought but the odd BH since. I was adamant that I was not in labour on Wednesday night. The contractions weren't really painful at all, just leaving me a little flushed and breathless, but DH rang labour ward and they said to come in. Doctor was a bit pissy with me for discharging myself and kept making comments about how I'd probably have given birth by my next consultant appointment (Tuesday), but ffs I'm hardly a novice at this and while I may not have been to medical school, I'm on offspring number 5 and 6 and do know my body. I'm so hacked off that I can't even begin to express it, but then I guess I've whinged to you lot so much in the last couple of months that I probably don't need to try, lol.
While I haven't said anything in the last few days, I have been reading the posts (in between sulking and sobbing) and have been glad to hear all the news (partic. little!) and am thinking of GT today. Hope she can update us all soon!