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Well I experienced my first real set of Braxton Hicks last night from about 8pm until close to 2am.  Loads of fun.  It was very hard to tell if I was in real labor or not.  I decided after several hours that they weren't regular or painful enough to be "true labor".  Even though it was extremely uncomfortable for quite awhile. I easily could've gone to the hospital as some of them felt very "real" to me.  However after experiencing three false alarms with my son Thomas,  I had no desire to go through that again, let me tell you.  Not to mention the cost of going to the hospital to find out I wasn't even in "true labor". Because I'm doing a VBAC (vaginal birth after c-section) I'm supposed to go in sooner as opposed to later to be checked out.   Meaning most women are told to get to the hospital when their contractions are 5 min apart, they want me there when mine are 7-8 min apart so they can monitor me closer.  Needless to say it put me in a state of panic as I realized I still had so much more to get done before the baby arrives!  So much to do...so got to go!