Hooray! Congrats meanmrs, I really did think it sounded like proper labour!
Cakebaby it can indeed be real labour if you only feel contractions at the bottom of the bump, when I was in labour last week it was all at the bottom, no squeezing from the top sensation.
Can't believe my beautiful baby is a week old already. We celebrated the weeks "anniversary" by sharing a bath, she and I, to remember her lovely water birth. She fell straight asleep up to her chin in the warm water, bless her.
Hang in there girls, loads of us had no signs at all then woke up in labour. If you feel stressed and there are other issues going on like a festering row with your other half, or fears over the birth, try to talk them out or at least just let them out, with the person they're connected to, or here, or a friend. Sometimes a bloody good hormonal rant or a cry can "clear the way" for labour. My midwife told me to have a good scream, but where can you scream, really? 
Personally I got hugely stressed by all the people asking if I'd had it yet, and what the hospital were going to "do" about me so I wrote on a certain social networking site that I couldn't handle any more texts and calls, so could they please all back off and leave me alone (I phrased it more diplomatically but that was the gist) and I went into labour the next morning after a lovely day of peace and radio silence! I'm sure it helped, as did taking rescue remedy to calm me down. I'm a stress-head. 