I'm almost 39 weeks pregnant and at about 3 this morning I was having bad back pain. Similar to my period getting ready to start. I've been dilated to 2cm for 2 weeks now. I would rate the back pain on a scale of 1-10, 10 being the most painful, at about a 6, where other times it was about an 8, and others would be a 4. It's not frequent, the timing is too far apart. My mucus plug is still intact. And it's not painful enough in my opinion to head to the hospital (30 miles away). I was pregnant around this time 3 years ago, so I don't really remember what labor pains felt like. Are these real labor pains? Or just braxton hicks?