Early labour!? Contractions!?

I woke up about an hour ago with what I can only describe as a cramping shooting pain that filled my entire stomach, lasted maybe 5-10 seconds and then stopped, and has been reoccurring for the past hour on and off. I’ve got awful diarrhoea (but I did have a very spicy dinner which could be to blame) does anyone think this could be sign of early labour, or just a bad reaction to last nights dinner?! I’m only 35 weeks and I can’t lie, I’m pretty scared! 😟

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I had this last night and everything has now completely stopped! Also had diarrhoea too due to all the cramping. It lasted for about 2-3 hours and I’ve had nothing all day now. Have you lost any of your mucus plug??

I went to the toilet once more after I posted this, and then it stopped! I’m going to put it down to what I’d had for dinner as it seemed after my bowels were completely empty, the pain ended!

I would say sounds like food, diarrhoea is common at this gestation i’m 35 weeks tomorrow and I’ve had it off and on so it’s just one of those, I get pretty regular braxton hicks too x

If they're only lasting 5-10 seconds, I'd say it's more likely to be digestion related than Labour. But call triage if you're worried

it was definitely just food related! I feel at this stage of pregnancy every single change in your body makes you think LABOUR 😂😂 I’ve never experienced anything quite like it before though, it was such an odd sensation and very contraction esc the way it came and went in such a regular pattern! No more spicy food for me 😂

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