Hospital stay #2

Hospital stay #2 = no baby.  Anyone who has experienced latent labor can probably sympathize what I'm going through.  I'm going on 5 weeks with terrible contractions and cramping.  Friday night (during the horrible snow storm) I started experiencing really bad cramping, menstrual-like cramping.  It felt like one long contraction, however I never really felt that before.  Usually its constant contractions.  I did not sleep at all.  I tried warm baths, nothing seemed to give me relief.  Mike ran in the Polar Dash Saturday morning and I had a hard time handling Zander on no sleep plus cramping.  When he got home I rested as much as I could.  He told me I should call the on-call doctor and see what type of relief I can get/do.  Luckily it was my OB on call.  He told me to take Tylenol and if in an hour they are still there, to come in.  I had no intentions of going into Triage since I didn't think I was in labor.  But he said I could be progressing faster then I think.  So we went in at 7pm.  The nurse hooked me up to the contraction machine and sure enough I was contracting (intensely) around 3-5 minutes apart.  Then they got closer around 1-2 minutes apart.  Some were to the point I was crying.  She did a cervix check and nothing! No change.  They kept me for another two hours and wanted to recheck me.  Again, nothing.  They could see how much pain I was in so they hooked me up to an IV to give me some meds to help relieve the pain.  Then after another 2 hours they would re-check me.  And of course, no effacement.  Its so upsetting to me because I'm in so much pain.  Since I'm only 36 weeks, they will not help labor.  And if I don't have any progress by Friday, my OB can't strip my membranes.  I think little Zoe wants to be induced at 39 weeks.   I just want some relief.