Early signs of labor?

Question

So my husband believes that I'm going to go into labor soon. I'm 34w tomorrow, measuring 35w with incredible health on both myself and my son. My doc at this point has even stated that if I was to go into labor he wouldn't stop it bc of how great our stats have been recently. That having been said, now onto my husband's theory.

Last week I fell 3 times. Had a few contractions that went on and off for a few hours, nothing to really rush to the hospital over. No bleeding, no mucus plug, etc. My son was bouncing all over the place. (Pretty sure my butthole had a bullseye on it)

Now I'm carrying pretty low and have been for weeks. I have my bag for the hospital all packed (everyone is shocked, but I don't want to be rushing around with fluid gushing out of me throwing things in a bag between contractions. Heard that horror story!) -- and I've been cleaning my house for 3 weeks.

In the last week I have had ZERO energy. None. I'm doing good to make food for myself and hubby and stay awake doing it.

I've also had contractions off and on throughout the last week but again nothing to rush to the hospital over.

Today I woke up and my whole lower back/butt has HURT. I mean it feels like someone took a 2x4 across it. There is no bruise but my back feels like it's covered in black and green bruises. Idk how else to describe it. And no, it's really not gone away.

I also ache off and on throughout my body. Similar to the flu, but I'm not sick. This started yesterday.

My husband just knows that this all means labor soon. I've not lost my mucus plug, no water breaking, just the occasional contraction. What do y'all think? We've had an unshakable feeling for months that he would come early, but idk if this all adds up to some wives tale about early labor or not.

Sorry for the long post. 😕

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I've had all of those for weeks :) I'm 39w4d. the only for sure sign of labor is your water breaking/consistent contractions. even with your baby measuring 35 weeks you're still WAYYYY too early to have that baby! bake for a bit longer. :) I wouldn't be okay with my doctor letting me have a 34/35weeker

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I've had a lot of those symptoms for weeks and I'm 38+2 now. It could be early labour but it could be normal third trimester stuff. It's really hard to tell. If you're concerned, contact your care provider because it's still a little early for baby to arrive.

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Following this... Cuz I know what you mean... I'm right there with ya...

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I had absolutely zero symptoms of labor until hours before my water broke. The day preceding, my dog was going insane just pacing back and forth and sitting on my feet or standing on my lap. All day. At like 4pm-ish I kept getting the feeling like I really had to poop but every time I tried, I couldn't. We went to a birthing class that night, got home around 9pm and I went to bed at 10:30. At midnight, almost exactly, I woke up and didn't know why. I figured I would go pee while I was awake. When I stood up, there was a huge gush. Like, Hollywood movie type gush. I went to the bathroom and peed and was still just gushing fluid into the toilet. That happened for like the next 5 or so hours. I was seriously amazed at how much kept coming out😂 it took about 13 hours for contractions to really start hurting and I had my baby 22 hours after my water broke.

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