36 weeks & 3 days pregnant with my 3rd DD and I've got no clue if Im in labour or not. Had two induced labours (2017 and 2021) so I have no idea what it feels like to go into labour naturally as my induced labours went very much from 0 to 10000 almost instantly. I felt like baby dropped down into my pelvis about 2 days ago, I can feel her head resting very low down. Then last night I was woken at 3am with what I thought were braxton hicks, but these went on till 5am and then just seemed to stop. Then they started again today between 11am-1pm and then stopped. Then again 3pm-5pm and those ones were every 10 mins and moderately painful, and then they stopped. And now they've started again at 7pm, same pain intensity but still same distance apart. No idea if this is the start of labour or not and really trying to avoid going in to the maternity assessment unit unless I absolutely need to, as they're very busy and it's often a 4 hour minimum wait. Also got a lot of pelvic pressure and lightening pains up my cervix when I try to walk too much.
I know with low dependancy pregnancies you don't go to the hospital till contractions are regular and less than 5 mins apart but being high dependancy I'm supposed to go in as soon as labour starts and/or my waters go (which I don't think they have)
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