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Pregnancy Week 2
Wikipedia
What happens to you?
During this week your body is preparing to receive a fertilized egg. The lining of your uterus gets thicker.
What happens to the baby?
Every month, halfway through a women’s menstrual cycle (day 14 of a 28-day cycle), the body produces an egg that is released from the ovaries through the fallopian tube and eventually into the uterus. This egg will need to be fertilized—fused with a male sperm—within 12–24 hours to become pregnant. If the egg is not fertilized within that time, it will pass through the vagina along with the shedding of the lining of the uterus; this is your period. Once the egg is fertilized it begins to split over and over again until a small cluster of cells is formed. By day 4, after fertilization, there are usually over 100 cells.
Pregnancy Diary
When you first find out that you’re pregnant it’s a good idea to keep a pregnancy diary with information about doctors, medications, dates of progress, and milestones. Also, keep track of how you’re feeling or anything that seems out of the ordinary. These are some things that you could include in your pregnancy diary:
- Doctor’s information (name, address, phone number, email address)
- Hospital’s information (address, phone number)
- Medications (medications taken, dose, date started, date ended)
- Vitals (first day of last menstrual period, date of first positive pregnancy test result at home, pre-pregnancy weight, date of first prenatal check-up, symptoms of pregnancy, questions for doctor)
- Childbirth Education (educator, address of classes, telephone, email, first class date, last class date)
- First Signs (first heard baby’s heartbeat, first felt baby move)
- Special Tests (procedure, findings)
- For Each Prenatal Visit (date, weeks along, weight, blood pressure, uterus height, questions/comments)
- Labor and Delivery (due date, when labor began, date baby was born, time of delivery, baby’s weight, baby’s length, hospital where baby was born)
- Postpartum Visits (date, weight, blood pressure, comments/questions)
Return to Pregnancy Calendar or continue to Week 3
Resources
Stoppard, Miriam. "Dr. Miriam Stoppard’s New Pregnancy and Birth Book.” Ballantine Books. 2009. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. “Your Pregnancy and Birth.” Meredith Books. 2005. Stone, Joanne; Eddleman, Keith; Duenwald, Mary. “Pregnancy for Dummies.” Wiley Publishing. 2004.