Difference between revisions of "Pregnancy Week 1"

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Keep people in your life who truly love you, motivate you, encourage you, enhance you, and make you happy. If you know people who do none of these things, let them go. --Unknown

What happens to you?

It may seem odd but, week one is actually counted as the first week of your last menstrual period before you became pregnant. You're not even pregnant yet! However, the body is working as usual to create the right environment for you to become pregnant, like it does every month. Except this month is the month where, instead of discarding the preparations for a egg and sperm, the body continues to nourish itself to prepare for creating a baby.

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+''Keep people in your life who truly love you, motivate you, encourage you, enhance you, and make you happy. If you know people who do none of these things, let them go. --Unknown''
 '''What happens to you?'''
-Most women don’t yet realize they’re pregnant at [[week 1]], but start to wonder once they’ve missed their period within two weeks or start feeling tired or crave certain foods. Week one is counted as the first week of your last menstrual period before you became pregnant.
+It may seem odd but, week one is actually counted as the first week of your last menstrual period before you became pregnant. You're not even pregnant yet! However, the body is working as usual to create the right environment for you to become pregnant, like it does every month. Except this month is the month where, instead of discarding the preparations for a egg and sperm, the body continues to nourish itself to prepare for creating a baby.
-'''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 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 there are usually over 100 cells. This is called the embryo.
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-=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.