A Southern Mama

Has this happened to any one else? Not quite 37 weeks, consistent contractions, then they go away, then they come back 4 minutes apart, doc on call says "see how the next few hours go",then you can't sleep all night because randomly they wake you up, then at church they start back up and you have to chase around a toddler who won't sit still, then you come home and try to take a nap because they've stopped again, but then they start back up again when you lay down so you can't sleep and for some reason your really tired toddler won't take a nap? I really hope yall aren't just sick of my rantings but I'm super tired and every time contractions start up, I know I can't go to the hospital because they will just send me home b/c I'm not to the point where they will speed up the labor process but they won't stop it either. How many days can this really go on? Surely not 3 more weeks? Right?