Cramps, braxton hicks or contractions?!
Hello everyone, I started getting a period like cramp from 5am on Monday but it wasn't really painful and I didn't think much of it, the next day early hours in the morning from about 2am I've been having what I would have thought are contractions but maybe they are braxton hicks because sometimes the come every 6-10 minutes sometimes I don't get one for nearly 20, but generally I get one or 2 every 10, they are painful, some more than others.
I haven't slept since 2am Wednesday and it's now Thursday 9am, 2 nights of barely any sleep and the hospital have said its probably not the real thing (it's my first baby) and to wait it out until they are 4-5 minutes.
I'm exhausted and this isn't even the real thing. I've had baths, taken paracetamol, used my birth ball. I just don't know what to do. My midwife doesn't have clinic this week so I would have to go to the hospital but I don't want to waste their time and not sure what they can do for me. Feel like I'm being a baby but I either want this to turn into labour or go away.
Has anyone had anything like this?
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Sounds like fulse labour. OR its called 'lightening' which is baby shuffling down into where its meant to be for labour and yes it does hurt n uncomfortable. But im on my second baby now n i instantly noticed i was in labour with my first baby. U get lower back pain and like period cramp feeling in ur lower abdomen. I know ppl say this too often but u will just know when ur in labour. Xx