39+3 cramps?

[MtnBikeChick]

Hi there, I am 39 wks + 3 days and I have kind of almost constant nagging cramps across my lower back, like bad period cramps, and a bit around the front. Other than that I feel totally fine, are these braxton hicks? I haven't really felt many braxton hicks during my pregnancy, just my belly getting very tight.
Thanks!

Sounds like you could be getting going! Keep us informed!

Sounds like it could be early labour to me! Or at the least perhaps the baby moving down?

The difference between braxton hicks and early labour (in my two births) was that I felt braxton hicks across my entire bump like someone was squeezing my whole torso really tight - sometimes I couldnt breathe properly and they stopped me in my tracks (worse so in pregnancies two and three).

Contractions and early labour started more like period pain - and that feeling you get before your period starts. So I felt the pain more at the lower end of my bump rather than all over.

Braxton hicks shouldnt really hurt.

Are the pains coming in any sort of pattern? I found in early labour they were a bit hit and miss then sorted themselves into a more regular pattern.

Keep us updated!

Thanks for the input!! There isn't really a pattern, although it seems to be better when I am up and about moving around. They are just coming and going. Oh well I have a hair appointment this afternoon and a very hard-to-get dinner reservation this evening so hopefully baby can hang on a little longer

A-very-hard-to-get-dinner-reservation sounds like a recipe to go into labour to me

sounds like it to me too!!
how exciting. come back and let us know, and best wishes

Thank you! Am still here, it is just coming and going, but I am really tired for some reason so trying to just chill out