Labour pains by themselves aren't a category A. What makes it a category A is the stupid question "Is there any serious bleeding?" The answers used to be "yes" and "no", now they are "yes" "bleeding, not serious" "bleeding, now stopped" and "no". Having a "show" used to count as a "no", now it counts as a "bleeding, not serious". According to AMPDS, any kind of 3rd trimester bleeding warrants a category A. Just about everyone agrees this is stupid, and that "bleeding, not serious" should be the same as no bleeding, since it is normal to have a show, but no-one has got round to changing it yet. I can't believe you managed a whole Friday night shift without seeing a single drunk. Some Friday nights I can go the whole night without speaking to a single sober person. It makes me kind of jealous.