Eek I finally check back into the thread in time to see another baby! Yay.
Good luck Potato you'll be fine! I had the exact same thing with going to the hospital and contractions stopping. Home really is the best place.
Bunch congratulations on the boobs working. Hopefully mine will too. They feel so sore today. I'm pretty sure my milk is coming in.
So, my birth! Overall it was a positive experience, but there were some not so nice parts. So to recap, Sunday morning waters went. No contractions just period pain. After a couple of hours the midwife wanted to examine me, went in, she confirmed I hadnt pissed myself 
told to go home, rest etc. and come back at 10am on Monday for further assessmENT if no labour. We went for a walk, had some food and in the evening started with contractions. Not too bad, manageable with breathing, took some paracetamol. Continued all night, never getting that regular, sometimes 5 mins apart, sometimes 3, sometimes back to 8. Awake all night, which in hindsight was bad. Definitely should have rested more.
3am called midwife, said try to stay at home, continue as I am, 7 am called again as felt like they were stronger. Went in and they really tapered off! Kept in for a few hours. At 10am told they'd like to give me intravenous antibiotics because of risk of infection. I declined and was told I could go home until the evening when I'd have to be monitored.
Slight contractions all day. Went for a walk again. They started ramping up late afternoon. At 10, rang hospital and told it was essential to go in and be monitored so in we went. At MAU they put me on monitor, baby was fine but consultant wanted to induce me. I again asked what the risks were. Very small increased risk of infection. So I agreed to intravenous antibiotics, but no induction. Examined and was 3 cm at 1am. Admitted to a bay with 3 other ladies. DH and I went and stood in the corridor for a couple of hours, marching up and down, breathing through contractions. A lovely midwife saw me and thought I looked like I was progressing. Examined me again at about 4am and had progressed to 6cm so I could be admitted to delivery suite and started gas and air!
Had to be continuously attached the foetal monitor throughout labour, but managed to stay upright. Gas and air took the edge off the contractions but they were really starting to hurt. Next time I was checked I had gone to 8cm, expected to deliver quite soon. After the next 4 hours had passed I was checked again and was STiLL 8cm which was disheartening. At that point the consultant came and told me to have the syntocin drip because it was taking too long. Was suggested an epidural, but I felt I could manage as my body seemed to be doing it. The drip made the contractions incredibly intense, to the extent I really felt like I couldn't cope, but I also didn't think I could sit still for an epidural so I continued just with gas and air. At the next check I was 9.5cm! So the consultant tried to push the rest of the cervix away. Then told me to wait an hour to make sure it didn't flip back. I literally couldn't. I started pushing involuntarily.
Baby arrived after 1hr 10 of pushing at 7.31pm on Tuesday. Delivered naturally, with no stitches needed. Just two small grazes. They thought I had a PPH and the room filled with people but they revised my blood loss in the end, so all was fine.
It all sounds a bit much, but honestly it was fine. My top tip is to keep calm, and also don't be pushed into intervention you don't want