I feel like I am going into labour and yet clearly I am not

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I have had loads of BH the last few days, I feel achey between my legs have had loads more discharge there than normal (not waters). Last night I ended up going up to the labour ward because I had pain i my ribs (what a fun trip that was) which indeed showed that I was having BH regularly every 5-6 mins but thats all it is BH. Still here I am the next day, with the same thing. I feel like I did in the couple of hours before labour with my other children, and this is my fifth baby so its quite familiar BUT I seem to be stuck here. I am clearly NOT in labour and since I am oly 35+5 then this could go on for a month yet and tbh I think I will actually have wasted away through exhaustion by that point. I cant get comfortable lying down as this increases the intensity of the BH so sleeping is pretty difficult.

oops pressed the button too soon.

was meant to ask
has anyone experienced this before?

I've been 'ready to go' as MW put it since 37+2 am now 40+3 i've been told by 2 different midwives oh i think you'll be back within a few days in labour and community MW said on wed she was hopefull the sweep would work but still no real labour, just BH keeping me up and other lovely fake labour symptoms :( Lots of people have told me that if you have a really long pre-labour / lots of false labour your actual labour doesn't tend to be very long.

You could be going into labour. Plenty of babies are born prematurely you know.

Me! DS3 and have been having all the things you describe OP on and off for several weeks (now 38+6). BHs wake me up and then fizzle out after a few hours,
and sometimes i get the urge to wee or have to do a number two; vagina feels battered like when you go at it for hours (LOL definitely not the case!), my back hurts, cervix is sensitive and feels like someone is scraping an open wound... what else??