What’s Happening With Mom?
We said that it was going to get more exciting, didn’t we? Well, you didn’t need to wait long.
One word: Ovulation. At the beginning of this week, the cumulation of all that hormone hoopla is that an egg is released from one of your ovaries.
Eggs only survive a day or two, there’s only one released every month, and your body knows it. The same hormones that release the egg also cause increased desire because having sex now is highly likely to fertilize that egg. It’s common for woman who are trying to conceive to use ovulation calculators to assist them in finding out when the best time to become pregnant will be.
If you are the type that thinks it would be classy to name your baby after the place of conception (Brooklyn Beckham, you’ll live in infamy forever) make a note.
So the egg is traveling down your fallopian tube towards your uterus. After intercourse, billions of sperm are swimming towards it…
What’s Happening With Baby?
… and one of the first lucky sperm to reach that egg fertilizes it.
Congratulations – NOW you are officially pregnant!
Sperm meets the egg in the fallopian tube. That fertilized egg – now called a zygote – needs to get down into your uterus where it will grow into your baby.
On the way it begins dividing. The zygote divides into two cells. The two cells divide into four. The four divide into eight, then more, and more, and more cells. By three days the egg is now 13-32 cells. In 4-5 days there are about 300 cells, and is known as a blastocyst. Not as catchy as Brooklyn, is it?
Around 5 days after fertilization, the blastocyst reaches your uterus, where it bumps into the wall of your uterus and sticks. It can now get ready to implant itself into the uterus lining.
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