Is this it? Please help!

Question

Today I am 40+1.Three times in the early morning I woke up then realised I was having a Braxton Hicks, coupled with backache and (sorry TMI) feeling I really needed to do a big poo. Every time I got to the toilet I just peed but the backache was worse.

Then an hour ago I lost my mucus plug. I now have constant backache and still feel like I need to poo.

According to the NHS website this is the start of labour. I've been waiting so long and had so many days of Braxton Hicks recently that I'm trying not to get my hopes up.

I know that you can lose your plug weeks before labour but the other signs are encouraging, right?

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Warning from me cause the same thing happened to me 3 weeks ago..I had already been to the hospital 5 times in 3 weeks for what we thought was the real deal only to be sent home...on 5/16 I was having Braxton hicks all day and lost my mucus plug that morning at 5:30pm that afternoon they were stronger but not in a pattern. By 6pm they were excruciating and one right on top of each other by that point I couldn't move. It took 4 men to get me in my truck for my husband to take me to the hospital. We arrived at the hospital at 6:35 I was 7 cm.. At 6;45 my water broke at 7 I started pushing and she was born at 7:12pm. I had no time for an epidural and I was planning on one so I didn't get a back up plan for how to focus during natural birth and it took a long time to get myself under control and focus. If you are not close to the hospital I would suggest getting close and maybe walk a little and that might speed up the process. And honestly looking back now I cannot remember fully how much pain I was in. But I was stubborn and refused to go cause I had been so many times before.

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Thats a great sign. I lost mine a few days early. We drove down a country road, major bumps. That night my water broke!
Good luck. Babys almost here

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I meant to put 41+1

Is this it? Please help!

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