Started getting contractions around 9pm-ish last night, mild, every half hour or so. At quarter to 2 I got a very painful one that lasted half a minute, then another 9 minutes later that lasted over a minute, then another 6 minutes later (same length), then a 5 second one 20 minutes later, then a four hour gap (between half two and half six) and another excruciating half-minuter. Since then they'd been coming about every half hour again and then about half an hour ago started doing the 9 minutes, 6 minutes, 5 minutes, 11 minutes type routine.
Am due on Monday, so 39+3 today - lost plug in early Feb and she's been engaged for a couple of months now, near enough. At last couple of check-ups over the last fortnight have been 3cm dilated.
No leakage, no urge to push or tangible sense of urgency but I'm in a lot of pain and quite evidently something appears to be happening - should I wake el baby daddio and have us go to hospital? Or wait until more progress is made (if more is made)?