contractions or not?

Emily
I feel dumb. 
39 weeks and 5 days, I'm not feeling any pain. But every night for the last three or four nights, when I'm sitting on the couch my whole stomach sort of feels like it's going to sleep, and then I have a twinge of pain in the lower abdomen and sometimes even vagina, but it only last about 3 seconds, if that. That's the only kind of feeling I've been having at all, and taking it as a sign of being close to labor. Other than that I'm feeling just fine. What are these feelings? Is it contractions, BH, or just the baby moving with her head so low? I'm worried I won't know when I need to go to the hospital.