When do you know your labor is real? How many contractions in an hour?

5:1:1... every 5 minutes you have a contraction that lasts approximately 1 minute for at least 1 hour. This is what my OB told me, anyway.

@babymckynlee, My doc said 5-1-1 which means 5mins apart lasting for 1min for a hour

I've been timing since 8:13 and I've had 16 roughly and they last 1-1/12 minutes and are getting more and more intense

@levleah,

You will know when it's real BH are nothing compared to the real thing lol

It's not Braxton hicks that's for sure @missnaty I'm shaking and they take my breath away

@babymckynlee, call your dr to be safe!

Yea those sound like labor contractions

Ok yeah sounds like the real deal, don't wait to long to go in I waited till mine were 1 minute apart and when I got to the hospital I had to start pushing I was already 10cm labor was 3 hrs so be careful

when they are 3-5 minutes apart and you have to hold on to something when they come