I'm 40weeks tomorrow, I got my membranes swept yesterday at 3pm. Woke up this morning to lower stomach pain @ 4am, my tummy has always been pretty firm so I can't really tell if it's "tightening" the pains were coming pretty regularly maybe every ten minutes. I went back to sleep and woke up at 8 to same pains, now throughout my lower back as well. I'm a FTM and can't really tell if these are contractions or just BH. I haven't had any Braxton hicks my whole pregnancy a lot of people say contractions feel like strong menstrual cramps, but I've never really had those before either.. I believe I lost my mucus plug this morning as well.  How do I know if this is the real thing