Signs of Labor (other than the textbook ones)?

Question

What were your additional signs of labor (other than contractions, bloody show, diarrhea, dilation etc).
Anything weird that you attribute to start of labor? Getting emotional? Crying? Hot flashes? Out of breath?  Fatigue? Burst of energy? I want to know the weirdest symptoms you had when labor started!

Answer

I had this "calm before the storm", a day's break from weeks of exhausting false labor. The next morning, real contractions started.

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This morning when my water broke my stomach was rock hard. Like so hard it was weird. The longest and strangest Braxton Hicks and then all of a sudden my water started spurting a little bit ! Contractions followed shortly after. Yesterday nothing out of the ordinary though. Had my bloody show days ago. Delivered 40+5 very quickly and effortlessly.

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Mine was contractions I was having them late at night for 2 days and bloody show for 2 days as well after my second day that night I was having contractions all night intel I decided to go in at 5am to L&D I was already at 6cm

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I had what I thought was Braxton Hicks on and off for 3 days straight but they kept getting closer together but I had no pain

Signs of Labor (other than the textbook ones)?

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