Thanks again for the feedback. Just to update quickly, my contractions never really got closer than 10 mins apart, and by the Monday (after it all firing up on the Thurs so 5 days later!) afternoon I was completely exhausted and over it. Was booked into Ob at 5pm for a check/S&S to finally kick start things (either that or be induced the following morning) and when I walked in his office I was 8 cm dialated and he sent me packing to the hospital!! I really hadn't realised how far I'd gotten at home, it had definitely gotten tougher, but I kept thinking it had to get a lot worse!

So hence, a huge shock for DH and I, but off we went to the hospital and 3.5hrs after arriving our baby girl arrived in a beautiful warm bath and all drug free. Wow. My head is still spinning

Thanks for reassuring me when I was near freaking out! Took me awhile to really surrender to it (the 'you're going to be induced tomorrow' phonecall helped I think!) but we got there in the end.