I'm the same way. I hated not knowing when things were gonna start. Especially because we lived an hour and a half away from the hospital. Labor started for me in the middle of the night while I was sleeping. I woke up and my contractions were already 5 min apart. My OB had told me to head in when they were 7-9 min apart. My husband turned a 1.5 hour drive into a 50 min drive because we were so worried we'd have him in the middle of nowhere. Lol. It all worked out though. Easier said than done, but try not to stress.