41 weeks - Are these contractions?

Orama

Ok ladies, help me out... I know people's descriptions of contractions vary greatly. I am having painful stabbing pains that begin deep in the vagina and shoot up (not really back). I keep assuming they're just dialation pains, but might they be contractions? I'm 41 weeks and scheduled for a C Section in about 36 hrs....

I wish something obvious like water breaking would just happen, but my body doesn't seem to be listening to my wishes ...lol