Do these wavy lines mean labour is imminent?

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Was put on a monitor for some reduced movements and it picked up my TOCO % (?) which every 10 mins would spike to over 70 and back down again. Image to show you what I mean.

I took these to be BH because they aren’t painful, just tight and uncomfortable. They’ve been happening for days but today so much more regular.

I’m 37w. Labour on its way or a few more weeks of this??

I’ve been doing that every 3 minutes for 3/4 weeks nothing happened yet. Absolutely shattered but they still making me wait until next week for my c section.

That’s fascinating OP, I’ve never been on one of those machines so I don’t know and I hope someone more useful comes along soon. My experience of those machines (do they have an official name?) is largely from US based dramas, I now realise! Is being able to interpret these common? It looks like they are measuring earthquakes!

Mine did that at 37 weeks, midwife did an exam and gave me a sweep whilst I was there due to the reduced movement, I was 1-2cm and she was convinced I'd go that weekend, DD arrived at 40+5 🙄🙄 hope yours doesn't keep you waiting that long

I had similar at least a couple of weeks before I was induced, and they never even mentioned them to me, so I figured they weren’t significant with regards to labour. Although I hope for your sake someone else says I’m wrong!!