A Rough Night

Week 27 has transitioned to week 28 and all has been mostly uneventful, until last night. I woke up around 3 with intense pains in my upper abdomen, below my ribs. The pain was off and on for a couple of hours, I wasn't sure if I was having preterm labor or what it could be. In the meantime, LBH was going nuts. She was dancing and practicing her soccer kick and perhaps doing a little kickboxing in there for good measure. I kept thinking, there can't be a problem if she's so active. I was also thinking, this is nothing like the contraction pain I've read about, the pains aren't lasting long enough and they're too high to be true contractions. But the pain wouldn't go away. Around 4:15am, the power goes out and scares the crap out of me. The good news is that it woke up Paul so I wasn't worried about preterm labor all on my own. I decided to call the doctor who called me back immediately but couldn't really tell me much over the phone. She said that it could possibly be gall bladder pain or indigestion (for the record, I hadn't actually had anything spicy for dinner) and to wait an hour or so. If the pain got worse then I should go to the hospital otherwise go back to sleep. I guess I eventually fell back to sleep but it was a rough night. I'm glad that all seems ok but you know I'll be paranoid about every ache and pain.