Had the balloon in at around 10am this morning, cramping pretty much straight away, nothing too horrendous so not had to have any paracetamol yet.
I started timing ‘contractions(?)’ on an app and they are around 5 mins apart and last around 50 seconds.
What I don’t understand is those timings, based of google research etc says I should be heading to the hospital. However, as i mentioned they are not painful enough to reach for the paracetamol yet (although close) and surely if I was that established/dilated the balloon would of fallen out as she said then putting it in that I wouldn’t be able to have it if i was 2cm but after examination I was 1cm so she went ahead.
This is my first pregnancy so apologies if this all sounds silly. Not really sure what i’m asking to be honest.