I’m 37weeks and 4 days. Yesterday I started with what I thought was braxton hicks. Then at 3:30am this morning I went for a wee and it was literally like a waterfall (not normal at all for me specially at that time in a morning) then as soon as I got back in bed I got a really painful braxton hick, it lasted for about a minute or so. Through out the day the “braxton hicks” have gotten a lot worse and and are about every 40-60 minutes now I’m starting to think they aren’t fake contractions but the real thing. TMI since about 13:30ish today every time I have a “contraction” i get a really bad pain feeling down there, it feels like it’s going all the way up to the baby. I’ve done everything to ease the pain even painkillers but only 1 like advised to even they aren’t helping at all! What do I do? My midwife is always off on a weekend and the hospital keep telling me to take painkillers. This is my first pregnancy and my boyfriends first child. me and my boyfriend feel like we have been told basically next to nothing. Is this start of labour or just braxton hicks? Please bare in mind I started losing my mucus plug at 34 weeks but have had no blood yet.