My name is Hannah Bajor the Pregnancy Super Coach with over twenty years in the field taking care of
women before, during and after their pregnancy.
Let us discuss pregnancy cramps,
are they normal or are they not? If we look at statistics for
women that would miscarriage, on average 25% of all women that know
they are pregnant and want the baby is going to miscarry it, that is
a lot, and one of the major signs of miscarriage is cramps. However,
it is also normal for some women to get some cramps in early
pregnancy and let me explain why you get cramps. W
When you get pregnant in the first place when the
egg meets the sperm that normally happens way up in your fallopian
tubes. When this fertilized ova is growing nicely it is going to
swim its way all the way down your fallopian tubes into the lining
of your womb.
Now your womb itself or your uterus is a muscular
organ. It is about the size of a closed fist when you are not
pregnant and it does have a little hole in the center and so this
fertilized ovum, this potential baby, swims into the cavity within
the womb. It then finds a nice little place to bury its little head
so to say into the wall of this muscular organ called the womb or
the uterus.
As it buries its way into the womb, sometime the
womb can respond and it can just get a fright and with that response
it is going to contract and close down on itself very tightly and
when the womb contracts or close down on itself it presses on nerve
fibers that are all in the outside of the muscles of the womb and
that is why that you get cramps or pains.
Sometime this muscular response of contraction
because every time you get a pain it is in fact a contraction.
Sometime the womb can have a couple of contractions on and off for a
couple of days early in pregnancy as this little egg is burying
deeper into the lining of the womb and the womb itself is adjusting
to become this incredible house for your baby as you get bigger. If
you have cramps in early pregnancy and if you do not have bleeding
with the cramps then that is a good sign, but if you are having
bleeding with the cramps then it may definitely be a sign that you
could be miscarrying or that you are threatening to miscarrying.
Now, threatening to miscarrying means that it
might happen, it is a possibility that is going to happen but does
not necessarily mean that it is really going to happen. If you do
have cramps in the early pregnancy my advice to you is to take it
easy, stay at home from work, put your feet up, do not be running
around the house doing 101 things, I mean stay at home, put your
feet up, be in bed for a couple of days, and see what is going to
happen. I certainly would advice you not to have any intercourse
during this period of time because this is a crucial time in your
pregnancy for everything to start off on good tracks for you.
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