34 Appt Labor and Delivery Round 2

So I had my appt Friday and we began with our normal weight check, stayed the exact same. Surprise surprise! Moved into the exam room and was hooked up to the Non stress test machine to moniter baby's heartbeat and contractions. Showed the results to the dr and yep still contracting and baby looks great while doing so. Blood pressure was great. They measured my belly and it is now measuring 36 but that's probably because of the contracting. So they decided to check me, mostly to ease my own anxiety due to our distance from the hospital. She assured us we would be the same and typically she doesn't like to go fishing for trouble but she would anyway. Well much to her surprise, I am 4 cm dilated and almost completely effaced. They immediately went and got Dr. Curtain who was very shocked and we created a new plan of leaving the hospital going to dinner and returning in two hours to be checked at L&D. So that is what we did. We returned and I'm still at 4. So this early labor (stage 1) is taking it's time but on the other hand when we get to active labor, things should move very quickly. I've made it nearly halfway pain free. I know women who have had epidurals at 4 cms. Heck we're still sitting at home! As for me I am not in any pain just very uncomfortable. Going through the house and making sure everything is in order, making arrangements for things that still need done and so on. More as we know it and will update accordingly. We have an appt on Tuesday if nothing were to happen before then. Once last thing, as we were leaving L&D Dr. Ambrose came in and said are we really sending this lady home, to which my other dr replied yes. He said very sternly, do not mess around coming back, things could change very rapidly, so keep on your toes and be ready. Yikes, we may have a baby soon! Anyway, they are very pleased with me getting to 34 weeks if you remember back to 16 weeks, that was Dr. Curtain's goal and he was 70% sure he could get me there. They are very confident in the baby and that he/she will do well and not very worried. So that is all great news!