Hi Monnie

Good for you for managing to keep calm. I completely panicked and found it very difficult to relax for quite some time and then started torturing myself with "my goodness, if I'm like this with just a bit of period-like pain, how am I going to be with full on labour."

But things calmed down (which for me is good, I think I'd prefer an on/off type thing rather than full bore) and in the meantime I kept my obstetrician's appointment. He did an internal and said all was looking good cervix-wise (starting to lenthen and efface) and I was 1-2cm dilated and he expects me to go into 'proper' (my words not his) labour within 1-3 days.

So very happy with that. I think the hardest part when the pains go away is that you tend to think they were all in your head.