Occasional cramps are often nothing to worry about. However, chronic cramps with severe pain may signal a problem that you need to consult with healthcare providers.

Early pregnancy cramps

🤰Implantation cramps

About 6 to 12 days after conception, you may experience some light bleeding🩸 and light cramping. Implantation cramps often coincide with other symptoms such as breast tenderness, nausea🤢, headaches and last no more than a day or two.

🤰Gas and bloating

Since progesterone hormone slows down your digestion and your growing uterus puts more pressure on your stomach and intestines, you’ll likely have gas and bloating.☹️ Unwanted gas and bloating only causes intestinal discomfort. If you are in too much pain, call your doctors immediately for checkups.👩‍⚕️

🤰Constipation

Your uterus puts pressure on your bladder, making it harder for waste to discard.🚽 You will suffer from constipation and dehydration. If you have signs of abdominal pain, diarrhea, mucus or blood in your stools, call your medical provider for checkups.👩‍⚕️ 

🤰Cramps during orgasm

You may notice a bit of cramping during or after an orgasm.🥰 Uterus naturally contracts when you have an orgasm leading to cramps. If the cramps come with painful symptoms such as bleeding, discharge, you should call your healthcare provider.👩‍⚕️ 

Other early pregnancy cramps

🤰Miscarriage

Miscarriage often happens in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. When you notice vaginal bleeding🩸 or spotting, intermittent or constant abdominal cramps, discharge of tissue or clot-like materials from the vagina😟, you have to call your doctors immediately.

🤰Ectopic pregnancy

An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a fertilized egg implants outside the uterus. It is a lethal and life-threatening condition, causing severe abdominal or pelvic cramps, vaginal spotting or bleeding🩸, low back pain.😞 

The pain intensifies even when you just cough slightly or move your bowels. If the fallopian tube ruptures, it’s a medical emergency and you have to be taken to the emergency room immediately.👩‍⚕️🏥 

🤰Urinary tract infections 

Being pregnant makes you susceptible to urinary tract infections🦠 because your immune system is weaker than usual. If you are skeptical that you might have a bladder infection with pain when urinating, soreness and pain in the lower abdominal pain, uncontrollable need to pee🚽, and cloudy and foul-smelling urine, you have to contact your healthcare provider immediately. 

Bladder infection left untreated can lead to kidney infection which causes serious illness and premature labor.🙅‍♀️