Goodluck :) Hope you have a easy birth & speedy recovery!!!

update..midwife just did a home visit. still a little too early to go in. she wants contractions to be 3-5 min apart..but im slowly getting there. she thinks I'll definitely be admitted sometime tonight

What was it 5 to 7 minutes apart you go in? I don't remember. I got called in both times to go have my kids. Was told when it was so many minutes apart to head into the hospital

Good luck!

my lower back extremely hurt with aching pain and felt like I needed to take a number two when I went into labour ... was no smell though ... good luck girl ...

yeah definitely the start of early labour. they are lasting about 30 seconds but they are coming pretty consistently now like every couple min but I can still move around and talk through them

Is your stomach hardening too? The very first ones hurt like a period but you are still able to move around. They last for like 30 seconds n then it goes away. From what I remember (I was induced) the first one I was at home n it started the period cramps immediately. As the night went on it was harder to walk around n I had to stop n let it pass. And it just gets more and more intense. My second I ate pineapple so I had contractions that didn't hurt but you could tell it was happening cause my stomach was rock hard everytime