M.B.
Same thing happened to me, but it was a terrible thing that I listened and went home! I was back in 3 hours in late 1st stage labor, vomitting the whole car ride there, in intense pain, vomitting in the admitting area, and bleeding everywhere. I was abandoned in triage (vomitting) for over and hour, bleeding, poor DH was beside himself trying to find a nurse. When I finally made it into L&D, I was screaming for an epidural. They administered one without checking my dilation and checked as soon as it was in...and I was at 9, yes NINE centimeters. It slowed my labor, they administered pitocin...I pushed for 3.5 hours... my baby started going into major distress because of the pitocin....they said "emergency c-section" but elected to try forceps and vaccuum first. My poor baby had apgar scores of 2 when she finally came out and was rushed to the NICU with low oxygen and major swelling from the forceps. I didn't see her for 6 hours and was beside myself. I didn't know if she was alive.
She was, and she had to stay in the NICU for 24. It was an AWFUL experience. I do not recommend "waiting" at home to anyone. Go back to the hospital. The LAST thing you need is to be nearing/in transition and nowhere near your delivery room.