I have just gone through this. Dd2 was born in 45 minutes after my waters were broken. This time my ob asked me to go to the hospital once labour was established. I went on the Saturday when the ctx were three minutes apart. They got stronger and then stopped, so after a night in hospital they sent me home. The ctx restarted but were not strong and were random. At about 5pm I had a couple of strong ones before I got a swift punch and my waters broke. We decided to drive to the hospital and take the girls with us instead of waiting for my mil to get to our house.

We got to the hospital in 20 minutes, my ctx were now a minute apart and getting stronger, I had three just getting to the birthing suite. Mil picked up the girls and the midwives started to admit me, when 15 minutes later I needed to push, ds was born in another 15 minutes.

It's part of the reason I think we have finished having children. With all three I have had signs of early labour and with two fast labours I don't think I could deal with having to worry from 34 weeks about going into labour and being near a hospital.