Real Contractions?

So today I started counting down in days instead of weeks- 20 to go!! Scary. Crazy. Exciting.

My fabulous husband surprised me yesterday with a pre-natal hour long massage scheduled for tomorrow. I'm very excited about that since lately it's become very difficult to stand up, sit down, bend over, use the restroom...
Yes, all of the above!

We had our 37 week doctors appointment yesterday morning. The baby is still doing great- moving around nicely and in the proper position. I'm still 1 cm dilated. I've had contractions off and on for the past couple of weeks but yesterday they started getting closer together. Late in the afternoon, some of them even started to be about 5 minutes apart and pretty strong. As the evening went on, they slowed down, sped up again around 9-10 pm, then stopped througout the night. I've only had a few today so I'm guessing they were more "practice" then the real thing. Pretty crazy though. We're keeping on our toes!