the kind of pain you are describing is not labor. the contraction/labor pain comes after every few min and stays for a moments and has its pattern ,that you will know right away once it starts, labor pains never go away with changing positions or sitting and standing.

i hope you get this answer while you stilll need it, the kind of pain you are describing is a pelvic pain associated with disalignment of the pelvic area and possible malposition of the baby, if you have this pain a chiropractic treatment will help you , please go through this website to find more about this condition;

http://www.plus-size-pregnancy.org/pubicpain.htm#Anatomy and Structure

The three male protagonists in Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd are represented by images corresponding to Hardy's opinions of their characteristic traits. Hardy is a naturalist. We know this because of his beliefs such as "God was palpably present in the country, while the Devil had gone to town." Because of this, Hardy approves of Gabriel Oak's character, as he has such a strong connection to the natural world, with his ability to tell the time without a watch and his ability to predict weather accurately (from before the storm). Therefore Oak is always associated with natural images such as trees and Norcombe Hill. On the other hand, Sergeant Troy who is a dishonest, disloyal character is the opposite of Oak - he is associated with urban images and his disalignment with the natural world. For example, he fails to predict that the storm would come upon looking at the sky. Boldwood is between these two extreme characters. At the beginning of the novel he is associated with the natural world, like Oak, but after the Valentine letter from Bathsheba, his obsession with her increases until the climax when he shoots Sergeant Troy at his own Christmas party. Because of this mental instability Hardy makes him more like Troy by dissassociating him from nature; this can be proven in the storm: he "overlooked the ricks" that year, showing that he now has a similar personality to Troy.