Contractions or braxton hicks

I’ve been having contractions since 3pm every 7-13 minutes. My abdomen gets rock hard and I feel pressure down there but not much pain 🤷🏼‍♀️ there is pain but very very mild, like I could easily sleep through this pain. Now I don’t know if I am in early labour or just some fake contraction?? I am 39+3
P.S. I also did not lose any bit of the mucus plug

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Maybe phone your hospital and they will get you in and check you. Mines happened so fast after I got induced xx

Braxton hicks don’t tend to have a pattern and they don’t become frequent and gain in strength.

Contractions are like clockwork, you can really easily anticipate them, they get closer together & they become progressively stronger the longer they go on.

I’ve been having exactly the same since this morning, along with period cramps. They haven’t been getting any worse, but have been coming and going every 15/20 mins all day, I was told by a midwife in triage it could be early labour xx

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