I am 38 weeks + 3 days pregnant.
I can’t tell if I’m having Brixton hicks or real contractions. The contractions that I’m having now has been more than 1 hour & the pain is in my lower back and sometimes in my abdominal area.

I feel the need to poo but when I went to the toilet nothing happened. I already went to the toilet 3 times yesterday to clear my bowels. Has this happened to anyone else ? waiting for the contractions to get really bad to go triage as I don’t want to be sent back home if it’s false contractions. My water hasn’t broken yet either.

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Hey, mine started off the same and I had my baby boy last week at 37 + 6.

It started off as having a dull like pain with a constant hard belly and then from Monday to Wednesday they got more intense and around Wednesday night is when I realised that I may be in early labour, so I went into triage and they said baby is very low in my pelvic area but I’m only 2cm dilated so we went home, did some extra curricular activities 😉 and my waters broke :)) and had my baby Friday in the early mornings xx

Lower back and a clear out yesterday sounds real to me x

I’m exactly the same gestation and have had the same feeling all night, barely slept. Nothing now though :/
No other major signs either.
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I am 38 weeks + 3 days pregnant. I can’t tell if I’m having Brixton hicks or real contractions. The contractions that I’m having now has been more than 1 hour & the pain is in my lower back and sometimes in my abdominal area.

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