Things Are Happening...

But in a pretty gradual way. I seem to get at least one "real" contraction every night, but they obviously aren't labor contractions, which is why I put "real" in quotes. It's very different from the way things were with Little Chub! The contraction I had last night was stronger and more painful than the first one I felt in my labor with Little Chub (and I could feel residual pain from it for over 5 minutes!), but was only followed up by normal feeling Braxton-Hicks. I'm guessing some of the early work is being done now, in these days (or weeks...) leading up to the real thing. Did all of you notice differences like this in your first vs. second labors?