Im currently 36 weeks pregnant and one day away from beginning my maternity leave. Im a dog groomer so on my feet all day and today whilst grooming I really seriously thought I was going into Labour. I got this horrendous pain (not lightening crotch but similar) in my pelvic area but it felt like it was inside my bits. It almost felt like as though baby was trying to stick her hand through my cervix. This was accompanied with severe lower back pain and my coccyx has been extremely painful too. When I sit down or sit on the loo her head feels like it’s pushing down so much that it hurts. This is my 3rd baby, I went over due (41 + 3 with no.1 and 41 + 5 with no.2 who was induced) I know the chances are I’ll go over with this one too but this time baby has been head down since 28 weeks and is very very low according to my midwife. My other two weren’t head down until right at the very end. I have had 3 colposcopies and loop diathermy on all occasions since my last pregnancy, im another 10 years older than I was when I was last pregnant and I have spent a lot more of this pregnancy active than I did with my older children. I never had any of this with my other two, no pains, no signs no nothing until over 40 weeks but this one feels very different. I’ve had pressure, back pains and even contractions every 4 minutes lasting around a minute for an hour the other night, they eventually stopped but they were very painful and worrying! My midwife downplays everything I tell her so I feel like I’m going crazy. I have also had this pain again tonight whilst writing this but this time it was followed by a large amount of discharge looking fluid. Am I going insane or am I possibly in the very first stages of Labour?? 🤯