So for the past ten weeks I’ve had Braxton Hicks, never painful but definitely got more uncomfortable the last couple weeks. At my appt on Tuesday I was 3cm dilated and baby was low. Doctor thought I’d go right around 37 weeks (I’m currently 36+2). I’ve been up since 4am with what I thought started as BH (they’ve never woken me up before) 12 hours later and they have definitely gotten stronger and I have them every 5-7 minutes. They feel like intense period cramps during the contraction. My doctor said to call once they are 5 min apart for 1 hour and I have to “stop what I’m doing” to get through the pain. It’s so hard to tell because I definitely think they are getting more painful but I also think I have a high pain tolerance. Does this sound like false labor or real labor slowly progressing?