This is perfectly normal, but if you see more than a tinge of blood, be sure to call your caregiver. This may be tinged with blood – the so-called bloody show.
You may see a mucousy vaginal discharge. If your labor is typical, however, your early contractions will be mild enough for you to talk through them and putter around the house, or even doze off between them. Sometimes early labor contractions are quite painful. (Some women have much more frequent contractions during this phase, but the contractions will still tend to be relatively mild and last no more than a minute.) Early labor ends when your cervix is about 6 cm dilated and your progress starts to accelerate. Eventually they'll be coming every four to five minutes and lasting 40 to 60 seconds each. Contractions get longer, stronger and closer together. If you have to stop, especially mid-sentence, to breathe through contractions, you’re probably moving into active labor). 
(If you aren’t sure whether you are in true labor, see whether you can hold a complete conversation with your labor partner or doula. True labor contractions get closer together as time goes on and are more regular than Braxton Hicks contractions.
Note that early labor contractions are sometimes hard to distinguish from irregular Braxton Hicks contractions, also called false labor. You'll start getting contractions at relatively regular intervals.
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