It's time...I think?

It's hard to type...so much pain...

My dog is going nuts wanting to be next to me.

Started mild contractions around 7:50, my husband rushed home from work. I'm feeling things I haven't felt before. I took a shower, been drinking water...

I'm scared guys.

Edit: Just updating. I'm still having contractions about 10-12 minutes apart and they're long and painful. I'm pretty tired, I'm gonna lie down and rest as much as I can. I'll update again if anything changes.

Edit 2: They slowed down around to about 20-30 minutes apart and mellowed the pain around 3 am last night and I was so exhausted I just passed the hell out. I woke up around 6:30 am, and I'm still very uncomfortable and SORE from last night. I've had a couple small contractions, but nothing like last night. I know labor (especially first time moms) can happen like this.

My mom and a couple friends told me not to get to comfortable because the same thing happened to them. My mom said she had labor almost exactly like this for 24 hours, and then slowed down for a number of hours and she thought it wasn't going to pick back up, and then it did and my friend said her's was similar at 27 hours.

Wahhh!! This is so frustrating! Why can't I just be in labor for a few hours and get it over with! ):

Edit 3: It seemed like the contractions just halted. I was sooooo frustrated. My friend came over with a bag full of those old wives "labor inducing remedies". Drank a whole giant glass of raspberry leaf tea (which is nasty btw...), ate some fresh pineapple, did the pressure points...everything.

The only thing I think was working was walking. Every time I walked, I got a strong contraction, and they continued for a little while, then they would turn into mild contractions, then braxton hicks type contractions. Don't worry, I kept myself hydrated ALLLL day. Unfortunately, it's waaaaay to hot to walk too much. I walked as much as I could, and bounced on my yoga ball.

I've been cramping, uncomfortable, and having diarrhea all day. Around 7:40ish (which is weird, because last night my labor started around 7:50), I got a pretty strong contraction, then another 20 minutes later, and then another 20 minutes later, then they mellowed out again. I've been having relatively painless contractions with really bad back pain about a minute long each, and the occasional rough one.

I'm so frustrated. My mom thinks it's just early labor still and that she had that for a couple days before going into final labor. My friends are saying the same thing, but I'm so discouraged.

Has anyone who has had a baby before been through this? I need some encouragement. I'm so sore and exhausted. I feel like my uterus is teasing me. ):