Early Pregnancy Symptoms and Cramping Like There Is No Tomorrow

Saying that cramping is an early pregnancy symptom is almost tautological, because almost every woman experiences cramps from time to time, especially when it comes to their period. In the early stages of pregnancy, the catchword is not so much as any specific early pregnancy symptom as much as “change.”

The Changes

The drastic hormonal transformations can be disconcerting in every stage of pregnancy, because the physiological changes are just as dramatic as puberty, except they are now compressed to mere months instead of years. Just as teenagers are prone to growing pains due to the extreme growth of muscles and tissues, your body will also be experiencing all sorts of discomfort. They may be barely noticeable or horrendously excruciating, depending on your physiology and general health. There are always ways to alleviate them, because unlike other pains with a pathological cause, this is just your body’s defence mechanism saying that something has changed. Once you persuade it that there are no underlying causes, it will eventually grow accustomed to the new arrangements in the same way a bodybuilder grows out of muscle pains.

As early as two weeks after conception, the early pregnancy symptom of cramping will indeed appear. It has nothing to do with the health of the baby or the viability of the pregnancy itself, it’s because the fertilized egg is being implanted into the uterus.

In this stage of pregnancy, you might experience a completely different symptom that nonetheless manifests itself as a cramp: a round ligament pain, due to the expansion and growth of pelvic muscles under the uterus that is bracing itself for the weight of the baby. Exercises, as simple as walking, are all that it takes to relieve these early pregnancy symptoms of cramping. And as with muscle aches in general, a warm bath or a hot shower will also help things by improving your overall blood circulation.