39 weeks pregnant and having pains 5 minutes apart, you need to go to the hospital for labor.
When you are 39 weeks pregnant and it hurts once every 5 minutes, that means there are regular uterine contractions, which is a sign that labor is imminent and you need to go to the hospital for delivery.
Generally, before labor is initiated, a woman will experience some symptoms that indicate impending labor, such as the fetus is in the pelvis, irregular uterine contractions, and a small amount of blood discharge from the vagina. If these symptoms occur, you need to prepare for labor.
Labor is preceded by regular and gradually increasing uterine contractions, usually lasting 30 seconds or more with a 5-6 minute interval, accompanied by progressive loss of the cervical canal, dilatation of the uterine opening, and descent of the nuchal translucency. To determine whether labor is imminent, it is necessary to observe the frequency, duration and intensity of contractions.