Ended up at triage the other day because I have really bad lower back pain and period like cramp in my stomach mixed in with soft stools and nausea which with my other 2 pregnancies meant labour was coming. As I'm classed as high risk because of low papp-a its been drilled into my head to contact them ASAP especially since I deliver really quick.
Anyways get checked over and all is fine and it's put down to "well its your 3rd pregnancy so its probably just the muscles so no lifting and lots of rest" my partner asked apart from my waters breaking (which they didn't for my second) how am I now going to notice the first signs of labour when this was the same pain as I had previously and their response was "well you'll just have to hope the waters go"
I'm high risk so can't give birth in a midwife led unit (which is 15 mins away), I deliver redic quick so getting to the hospital which is 35 mins away was already a concern to then be told that has made my stress and anxiety levels shoot straight up.
There's no real point to this post apart from to rant and get it all off my chest.