Contractions

I started having contractions Thursday evening that lasted a little over a minute each and occurred every 20 minutes. Then, they slowed and eventually stopped throughout the night. Friday began with me getting up at 4am with contractions again, this time 10 minutes apart and lasting about 50-60 seconds, but only lasted for about 2 hours and then slowed and stopped. Around 9am they started back up again, 7 minutes apart and lasted just over a minute each. This lasted for an hour then, once again slowed and stopped. Sigh. I have had a few random ones, but obviously nothing consistent enough to go in. Dr said once they are regularly 5 min apart for 2 hours, we need to head into the hospital. We are headed out to the mall today since the rain ruined my outdoor state park walk with the dogs plans. Hopefully we can get contractions jumpstarted and get this baby here!