Finally, Early Labor

Today I'm officially 39 weeks. I started counting my contractions late last night around 10PM and they were coming about every 9 minutes. Then I counted again 8 hours later (around 6AM) and contractions are becoming a little more closer (about 6 minutes apart). So it seems that the frequency of my contractions are changing in closeness about every 2.5 hours. Labor and Delivery told me to come in when contractions are coming about 5 to 3 minutes apart. At this rate of time, I should probably head over to Labor and Deliver after lunch (12PM) to get monitored for delivery.