True contractions?

38 weeks today and woke up at 1 am with period like cramps. Every 7-8 minutes and about 30 seconds in length. Lost mucus plug about 4 hours later and still having leakage. How do I know if real contractions? It’s been 10 hours and no change in strength or frequency.
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what kind of leakage?

Can you clarify leakage?? Like, does it feel like you're peeing on yourself?

@Kaylynn like when I stand up I notice some leakage but have a pad in so hard to tell how much or what it is

@JaKeisa like when I stand up I notice some leakage but have a pad in so hard to tell how much or what it is

your water is leaking. you need to call your ob and go to l&d

My labor started similarly but never really progressed further. They were irregular and only about 30 seconds long until my water broke. I was 38 w 5 d. but I did go from the inconsistent cramping to giving birth in about 8 ish hours

@Jessica did you have any leakage of fluids?

Yes I woke up around 6 am with leakage and it was slightly bloody. Light pink. But it wasn’t much…just enough for me to change my underwear. Then I noticed the cramping getting more intense and making it hard to keep walking around 10-11am (I went to work and I’m a mail carrier) My son was born at 6:23 pm

@Jessica wow! So you didn’t have like a gush a fluid but it was still your water breaking?

my water actually broke very dramatically like a water fall at 5pm, sorry. So I’m not sure if the leakage in the morning was mucus plug or some water but it definitely wasn’t pee and I never saw any mucus to be sure. But my contractions only ever felt like period cramps to me, only way more intense and painful and they never lasted much longer than 30 seconds. I even got checked the day I gave birth and was sent home at 3 pm not dilated

@Jessica oh wow ok!

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