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In the scientific pregnancy time line, Week 2 is the week that you ovulate and the time during which you can conceive.
This is the process where the ovary releases a ripe egg into the fallopian tube where it awaits fertilization from the sperm. It only takes one sperm to fertilize the egg but during the act of copulation millions of sperm can be released during one ejaculation. Your baby is just " a gleam in someone 's eye " until this process is completed.
Changes To Your Body
After fertilization, your ovaries start producing more progesterone, a hormone that prepares the uterus to host the newly fertilized egg, or zygote, which will live there for the next 38 weeks or so. Over the next week, the zygote will divide again and again to create a human embryo.
Lifestyle Considerations
There is no test that can tell if you are pregnant yet. This is because it takes another week for your egg to produce a substance called human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). This is the substance detected by a pregnancy test.
The hCG can be detected via a blood test or urine test. The blood test for pregnancy is considered to be more accurate than the urine test (especially the home pregnancy test kits). Both tests may not reveal a pregnancy until you are four weeks along.
Good Advice
Once your body starts revving up its pregnancy hormone production, expect to feel more tired than usual. To fight fatigue, go to bed a half an hour earlier than you normally do.
If you would like to know more about stages of pregnancy visit Newborn Baby. With information covering a range of topics including pregnancy trimester we have all your pregnancy and birth questions covered.
Recommended Reading
Slim & Healthy Pregnancy.
How To Keep Excess Weight Off & Maintain
Good Health During And After Pregnancy.
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