I am getting quite nasty cramps on my left side. I don't tend to get period pains which is why it always had me looking bewildered when I asked what contractions are supposed to feel like and I was told "period cramps". I didn't even realise I was having contractions already when I went in to be induced with DS - I had just passed them off as him moving inside me and it being quite confined hence the little pains!

I think the pains in early pregnancy are also due to ligaments stretching and gas buildup. Mine have been quite bad, and I have also been checking for AF but she's not coming. My belly is growing instead... It's just weird that it mostly happens on the one side.