UPDATE: Does this look like labor to you?

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38 weeks, 5cm dilated and 80% effaced. Contractions have been happening since about 4:00 PM but have recently become more constant... I really don’t want to go and be sent back home but I REALLY don’t want to miss my epidural window 
Bump contraction timer

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If they stay like that for 1-2 hours or you’re very painful already I’d head in! Looks like a good pattern! - labor and delivery nurse

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those are good numbers! time to go! 😃😃

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I’d say yes!

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Thanks ladies. Unfortunately, the contractions aren’t changing my cervix at all. Went to the hospital and was checked at a 5 and 80% effaced. I walked around for an hour and no change, but still having contractions every 3-5 minutes... How in the world am I supposed to know when real labor starts? 😅

UPDATE: Does this look like labor to you?

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