Some Advice please - is this 'normal'?

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Hope there is someone who can help!

Am currently 41 weeks exactly. Have been having contractions (real ones not BH or tightenings) for the last 3 weeks, I have about 2-5 a minute long and a few minutes apart then.....nothing!

Keep thinking this is it.... and it just goes again.

I'm concerned that there is something wrong that is stopping me labouring (Have had monitoring and baby is moving etc) but can't understand why it keeps starting and stopping. Any ideas??

With my DS I had nothing beforehand just went into labour the day after my due date and although it was fairly long (24hrs start to finish) it was continuous.

I have a sweep booked for tomorrow and am going to try to move to today (buy TGH the midwives are all booked solid so it's unlikely)

WWYD?

Go for monitoring, insist on a scan to see if there's a problem or am I worrying over nothing?

TIA

Normal, I'm afraid, particularly for second and subsequent labours, to have a lot of prelabour.

thanks lindenlass any other views?

My contractions stop completely for sometime with my first and i had a long pre labour, my midwife said eat as its your bodies way of giving you a chance to prepare for the on slaught to come.

My mw warned me that 2nd labours are very stop start so be sure to be in active labour when I arrive at the birthing unit.#

Thanks for this - I just can't believe how different the first labour was - none of this days and days of on off contractions....I am just soo achey all the time