Before I got my BFP I would get frequent abdominal cramps and use the hot water bottle to ease the pain as i don’t want to take pills if i don’t have to. I don’t know if the cramps are caused by IBS, PCOS, general period cramps, gas, anxiety, a combination of them all... who knows! but I’m not often without my hot water bottle.

I have one at work too because I feel the cold terribly and my company often forgets to turn on the heating 🙄

Now I’m 4w+3 and I’m not sure how safe it is to use near my stomach... I’m still using it but keeping it on my legs or chest instead as a comfort/keeping warm thing and have put an extra cover on it but have stopped using it for my abdominal cramps and am just ignoring them. (They’ve been very mild the last 2 weeks and not something I’m concerned about as they’re currently less uncomfortable than usual and feel more like muscle tensing than a pain)

BUT over the last 4 years I’ve had two MC around 5w so whilst I’m not panicking about it, I don’t want to do anything I really shouldn’t be.