How did people feel on the lead up to labour? What signs?

Freya • 👼🏻 20.07.17 at 7 weeks 🌈👦🏼💙 Kit 29.12.18 👦🏻💙 Theo 06.09.20 👼🏻 💙 Jude 24.07.21 at 20 weeks 🌈👶🏻 💗 Lyra 14.09.22 🤰🏻due 01.02.24

So although this is my 5th birth all my other children either my waters broke before contractions or I was induced.

I’m not sure if labour is close or not but last night I had what I think was my bloody show and then all day today I have had an intense dull ache in my lower abdomen and across my pelvic bone and I have been feeling really sick - not sure if this is a sign of labour or if I need to be checked for it - the pain is pretty bad but not ‘contraction pain’