I feel like I should know this as this is my second baby but my first didn’t come until 41+1. I also didn’t get braxton hicks with my first- that I was aware of anyway.
Since yday I have been having a few episodes (lasting around an hour) of period pains and lower back pain. Painful enough to need to breathe through a bit. Sometimes the pain extends around lower sides of my bump. Pains don’t last v long maybe 30-60seconds. I’m also feeling pressure in my bum and sometimes a few sharp pains in my bum too (like my rectum) but not feeling anything in my cervix or round the front of bump or front of bump tightening.
Standing up from sitting down can also trigger the lower back pain.
Is it likely this is start of labour? With dc1 I had 5 day stop start latent labour and already I’m thinking I don’t have the energy for this again!
Any thoughts or advice welcome!