I was talking to my mother (Making BIG steps by doing that, might I add) about my birth and she told me, she didn't have contraction as how doctors describe it it was more of a feeling to poop. And nothing would come out she said she had that feeling for a few days, Until my grandmother (my father mother)  said "enough is enough" and took her to the hospital and she was 7 or 8cm dilated with me. She didn't know. The nurse she told me had to manual pop her water and that's when she felt the labor, but she said her mother had same experience when she was birthing my her. 

So do you think it is possible to have somewhat of the same birthing experience as your mother? The way I'm feeling I feel like I might.