Early labor.... that sputtered out v.v

On Friday August 26th, I was woken up a few times, the first at 8:30am, the second at 11:40am, the third at 2:30pm by a sort of burning pain in my belly on the right side, from my belly button up to my ribcage. It felt a lot like the pain you get in your side from running or exercising too much. No repositioning or moving or anything made it better, in fact moving or leaning into it made it worse. The first two times it woke me up, I was able to fall back asleep, but the third time, I really thought about it and I was worried, so I got up and figured I would try a few other things to relieve the pain. As far as I could tell, the pain wasn't coming and going... it was constant. I didn't have any bleeding or anything, so I was confused. I called my midwife (Anneke) who hadn't heard of this kind of pain before, and was going to call her senior midwife to consult with her and see what she thought I should do. Shortly after getting off the phone with Anneke, my burning pain was accompanied by another pain, appearing in my left ovary region as pinchy, period like cramps that wrapped around to my back. The pains weren't constant this time though. They were coming and going in waves, and my belly was getting hard at the top through them. (ribcage to belly button again). Anneke called back and I told her about the new pain, and how now all of the pain was coming and going in waves. She said they sounded A LOT like contractions. We started timing them, and they were lasting 20-35 seconds long, and were 2-4 minutes apart. Only the upper part of my belly was getting hard. Anneke was confident that this was early labor!! But because they were VERY short, she said it was VERY early. She suggested that I drink lots of water, and take a shower or bath and see if they kept coming. I drank a ton, and took a long hot shower (while sitting on the floor lol) and they did not stop or slow down. So she suggested that I walk around a bit, and see if we could get them to last a little longer. Mom and I did A LOT of walking, and they began to space out some. Throughout the day I alternated walking with resting with my feet up/napping, and the contractions continued about every 20 minutes. Still short (roughly 40-50 seconds long) so still not active labor. Bed time rolled around and I could NOT get comfortable enough to sleep. I finally passed out around 7am, and the contractions had still been coming every 20 minutes up to this point. I slept like a rock once I fell asleep though, and when I woke up around noon, the contractions had stopped. I had maybe one or two more throughout the day, but nothing regular. Sooo I guess my birth story is TO BE CONTINUED....... *grumble grumble cuss cuss*