Would you call the midwives for this?

[Mybobowler]

I'm 34 weeks pregnant with baby #2. Waters broke in first pregnancy at the same gestation, and baby was born a fortnight later. No cause found, and this pregnancy is being treated as low-risk.

For the last 2-3 weeks I've been having frequent, endless braxton hicks contractions. Not painful, but uncomfortable. These have been joined by shooting pains in my cervix and, as of yesterday afternoon, low down period-type pains. No pattern to any of it, but sufficiently painful that I struggled to walk home from the park with my daughter this morning.

I have previously spoken to my community midwife about the BH and she sort of brushed them off. But I've just got a nagging feeling that baby is on his way. Should I just sit tight and see what happens? My nervousness over what happened in my first pregnancy is really clouding my judgement, and I don't know what's normal or not!

Movements are fine by the way, no concerns there.

If you're struggling to walk and the CM dismissed you, call triage

Take it easy ifnothing else dont walk too much..

I had BH throughout, uncomfortable but painless. From 35 weeks ish I had period pains coming and going, as well as the fanny daggers you describe.
Then at 36 weeks I had a day of painful but irregular contractions. They stopped.
They started again at 40 weeks and went into labour that day.

I couldn't tell the difference between the 36 week contractions and the 40 week ones. They felt just the same. I suppose I'm saying that what you're experiencing doesn't necessarily mean labour is imminent. And mine were painful ones which yours aren't?

However, I did tell my midwife about these things to check. It turned out they were happy that it was okay to get a day of painful contractions at the 36week stage, and didn't necessarily mean labour was starting. But you are 34 weeks so advice may be different. It never hurts to phone and check!

It's so tricky to know what to do! I don't want to cause a fuss. I guess I'll take it easy today and see whether anything gets worse.

@Millie50 that's interesting, how strange! My BH haven't been painful but they're increasingly becoming so. I think part of my nervousness is that I didn't realise I was in labour with my daughter (despite waters having broken two weeks before!) because the contractions were virtually painless until I was in properly established labour. It was only their regularity that made me call triage.

Get checked out at hospital.
Better safe than sorry.