Early labour!

Jess ♡🇬🇧 • Mummy To Pippa & Austin-Fox our rainbow 🌈 Baby #3 Due September 2023
So i had alot of my mucus plug come away thursday & last night I started getting contractions at 1am & they began to get very frequent. I'm 37weeeks+4days. I rang the hospital at 3am to let them know what was happening & they told me I was in early labour & to stay at home till the contractions started getting really painful because they had started to get about 4mins apart. I didn't want to go into hospital to early because I knew I would freek out but from about 9am this morning my pain had nearly gone, I have just been feeling alot of pressure. Has this happened to anyone else?