Early labor or Braxton Hicks?

Question

I was woken up at 2am with bad back cramps. They went into my stomach and ranged anywhere between 3-6 minutes apart but they weren’t really timeable. I fell asleep at 7:30 and woke up 20 minutes later to worse back pain and feeling like I need to poop or like stomach virus cramps. My hospital is an hour away and I don’t want to go if this is most likely Braxton Hicks. I’m 38 weeks 5 days. I’ve always been told that labor contractions you can’t walk or talk through and I’m not at that point??? Advice?

Answer

Here they recommend the 5-1-1 rule. Don’t go in until every single contraction lasts for a full minute, are five minutes apart from start of one to start of next, and this pattern repeats for a full hour. Even at that point you’re likely to go to hospital and be sent back home until you get to 3-1-1 or can’t tolerate the pain any longer. 
Of course if your water breaks, bleeding, or baby movements stop you go in regardless of timing.

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Wanting to poop is a sign of labour. Contractions that wrap around from back to front are usually real labour. Sounds early ( latent phase)

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Call, sounds like early labor

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I had the same thing minus feeling like I had to poop. Back pain that radiates to the front and was between 3-5 mins apart but hard to time. Lasted over an hour so I went to LD but they said it wasn’t labor. Annoying. Lol they said the same to me though, come back if I can’t think or talk..hasn’t happened again since then.

Early labor or Braxton Hicks?

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