Of course there is other evidence when labor actually begins.

And when her labor began seven months later, she was alone.

Once labor began, the patient would be placed on a toilet.

My labor began, and I gave birth the next morning.

Your experience after labor begins may be totally different from what you expected.

At length, the labor began, there in the locked room.

Version is done most often before labor begins, generally around 36 to 37 weeks.

For nine months she'd been fighting, and that was before hard labor had begun.

Dropping is not a good predictor of when labor will begin.

In women who have already had children, the baby may not drop until labor begins.