No clue what to do!

I’m due tomorrow and the past few days things have felt so strange but been half centimeter dilated for 3 weeks and have had false alarms 3 times. However yesterday my contractions have gotten consistent but then again they stop and start and stop but it’s lasted all through the night to now 8am and it’s still coming in waves (my husband said through the night my cries have been 5 minutes apart for an hour before it stops again and I passed back out) but it’s painful like extreme lightning crotch with nausea and feeling like I need a bowel movement and again stops but now it’s even closer together. Water hasn’t broken yet though. I’m scared I’m gonna go in and be disappointed but this is definitely different. What should I do?

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Your water can sometimes hold out until you push, if you feel that your contractions are close enough call your L & D and see if they want you to come in or wait it out a few more hours, but once your water breaks it can speed up labor or decrease

My waters never broke naturally with my first. After 40 hours of labor, fully dilated and effaced, I eventually asked my midwife to pop my waters and my daughter was born within 30 minutes. Sometimes those sucker's are STRONG! Don't wait for waters to break, just get yourself to the 5-1-1 of closer and then go in ♡

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went in to my closest hospital but chose not to do a cervical exam since I see my doctor on Tuesday and when I got there the pain started to slow down again. Got sent home with the 511 rule but now contractions are getting more stronger and more regular. Baby is also so much more active than she’s ever been, Hoping to get through the night and ask my doctor to be seen tomorrow instead of Tuesday to check my dilation. If I can’t handle the pain we might just go straight to my hospital 😣

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