did you "just know", like a lot of people say, when you started real labor?

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No. I didn’t. Like someone else said, my braxton hicks were super intense the last few weeks and my labor started with more painful BH. Eventually I figured out it was labor though.

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Everyone is so different. A lot of people don’t know when they are in labor. For me it’s always the same, I have strong contractions that never stop. My contractions are always very rhythmic, right from the beginning they will be like 7 minutes apart and within an hour they are usually 4 minutes apart. My labors are fast and furious.

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honestly I feel like I was lucky. I had "period cramps" which I thought were Braxton Hicks. Called the hospital and they told me to come in. My water broke right before I got checked and was already 7cm dilated. I thought they were going to send me home because it wasn't like the movies where I see people screaming in pain

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I was in labor for a full 24 hours before I realized that I was in fact in labor and not dying.

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I knew. I never had any Braxton Hicks ever my whole pregnancy then one morning I woke up and felt the worse cramps of my life like bending over in pain holding on to dresser cramps. I knew it was time then. It was.

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They were so different from Braxton Hicks. It’s more crampy feeling and didn’t change when I got out of the bed (they woke me up).. plus more back pressure/pain than anything I’ve ever had

did you "just know", like a lot of people say, when you started real labor?

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