is cramping a sign of pregnancy?

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Registered: 08-22-2003
is cramping a sign of pregnancy?
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Fri, 08-22-2003 - 11:29am
I won't be able to test to see if I'm pregnant until Saturday of next week. In the meantime, for the past 2 days, I've been having light, lower abdominal cramping. Could this be a sign of implantation? Has anyone experienced this? I had a miscarriage in early July and am anxious about seeing if I'm pregnant and also anxious about cramping.
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Registered: 05-07-2003
Fri, 08-22-2003 - 12:11pm
I don't know from experience but I've read in several places that PMS signs including cramps are similair to PG signs.

I'm banking on that myself. 8 dpo & I woke up with very low cramping this AM! Way to early for AF!!

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Registered: 08-22-2003
Fri, 08-22-2003 - 12:30pm
Thanks for the feedback and hopefully we'll both have good news soon!
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Registered: 08-09-2003
Fri, 08-22-2003 - 1:01pm
I had a miscarriage in early july too and am also ttc again already. I am maybe 10 days from testing. Also like you, I am very crampy and tender. I don't know if it's a sign of pregnancy. But I don't think anything is wrong. The doctors wouldn't have told us to carry on with the plan if there was any reason to wait. That tenderness and cramping is probably...and this is from having three other kids...that natural process of the uterus returning to normal...there's some of that hormone that makes the uterus contract still there, but not enough to harm anything...it's natural. And once you get pregnant...you feel that same tenderness and crampiness. So...you may or may not be pregnant...just like me...but I don't think we have anything to worry about as far as the cramping. Good luck to you! Amanda
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Registered: 07-30-2003
Fri, 08-22-2003 - 1:42pm
well girlies, with me, i SWORE UP AND DOWN that i was NOT pregnant, because i could FEEL AF coming. and she never showed. my daughter is 9 months old now.

i was having light cramps, and was feeling bloated, in the rr a lot (thought it might be a painless UTI), and i had no idea until the day i was late- when i got a BFP!!!!!

anyway, don't give up hope!!! it's VERY possible you all are!

bec