This is my 3rd bubs but I've never had a slow natural labour, I had to be induced and had hard and fast inductions with my other 2 babies, and that was also years ago.

So atm I'm 39weeks and 4 days and I've been noticing lots of braxton hicks contractions for the past hour, Ive been tracking them with an app and according to that they're on average about 13min apart. BUT they're not painful at all, they're just strong tightenings that start in the front of my bump and wrap around my back, they last anywhere between 30 sec to a min. Could this be early early natural labour that could progress? Or nothing more than Braxton Hicks? I'm trying not to get false hopes up, lol. How did early natural labour feel for you?

**Thanks everyone for replying with how yours went, hard to tell at this point but I think maybe my body's just teasing me 😒😩 Sigh. Felt so hopeful that this could lead somewhere tonight but guess just wait and see.