Hi all - just wondering if anyone can enlighten me. Please feel free to tell me I am being a big sook because I suspect that is going to be the outcome of this question.

The last few days each day I have been getting period like cramps that last for a few hours, they get quite bad and get worse but over the course of time but never quite go away. I must admit a little tiny voice in the back of my head did wonder if this was the beginning of labour but of course that is very unlikely since I am only 33 weeks. The cramps are painful enough that I can hardly walk around at times. The baby is still moving around quite a bit so I assume that maybe it is her weight pulling on something? The feeling ends up stopping and sort of feels like a stitch in my side before totally going away.

I don't think it's Braxton Hicks because I have been having them (or what I thought was them) with the slight pain but mostly just tightening and hard feeling of my tummy. This feels alot more painful and my tummy is tight, but it stays tight, it doesn't go away.

The little tiny voice in my head is telling me to be very worried because I am finding this pain so painful that I am getting quite worried about actual labour!