Is this finally it?!

[Lizb1990]

So woke up at half 3 for a pee and (warning tmi) felt a plop, pretty sure it was my show but no blood or pink tinge to it, but it felt rather substantial. Now I'm having dull period pains and have a bit of the 'shakes' and baby feels suddenly very low down. Had very strong BH last night for around 3 hrs but yesterday felt great and went shopping! I'm 36+3 but come from a family of early babies help! Is this it?! I'm freaking out!

I'm not trying to worry you but I think your midwife has been a bit silly. Yes, babies born at 36 weeks can be perfectly healthy but being in the womb until 40 weeks is best where possible.

Birth balls help encourage labour. I used it in early labour with DD but I was 40+5 weeks.

Definitely ring and ask for advice.

Have u managed to get in touch with the hospital op?

Hope everything's going well op

Ring the hospital

My son was born at 36 weeks and yeah he was perfect health wise but he struggled a little with feeding for a week.

I was advised to call if I went into early labour before 36 weeks as my family too have history of early births. They still do a lot of developing in those three weeks

Sorry for the delay in reposting guys, spent a long evening in the daycase unit last night getting poked and prodded, baby and me are ok, not in Labour from what they can see, hoping it was just a false alarm but on bed rest now and seeing midwife again tomorrow to keep an eye on things. I've never felt so scared in my life feel so silly and ashamed that I believed it was ok for her to arrive now and didn't do anything about it till the evening, feeling like I'm already a bad mum

It isn't your fault! You were told it would be fine. Don't be so hard on yourself