I'd been in prelabour for weeks, I was 3cms for 2 weeks before DS was born! So I kept posting on here trying to find out how to tell the difference between prelabour and labour. Everyone told me I'd know it when it happened and I was getting more and more frustrated. Then I woke up at about 7am one morning and KNEW. The contractions were different, and stronger, and it took my whole body to be involved ITMS? I'd love to say DS was born 4 hours later, but it was 21hrs later

Oh, and I had AROM at some stage during that 21 hours...