36w5d-? contrax all evening

Its been a decently quiet day, but tonight for around 3 hours I was having tightenings every 3 minutes.  Some took my breath away, my back is sore but they certainly weren't going from front to back or top down or anything, just tightenings, the baby would move around during them, I'd be uncomfortable for about 30seconds, then they'd stop.  I wonder if this is what I mistook for early labor with Nolan last time?  Oh well, they seem to be spacing out a bit now.  He can't come early, the basement isn't done!  I asked dh where the basinett for the pnp was for our room, and he doesn't know, so now we're really hooped if he shows before the crib gets put up!