Your 1st Week
Choose Your Week
- Your 1st Week
- Week 2 of Pregnancy
- Week 3 of Pregnancy
- Week 4 of Pregnancy
- Week 5 of Pregnancy
- Week 6 of Pregnancy
- Week 7 of Pregnancy
- Week 8 of Pregnancy
- Week 9 of Pregnancy
- Week 10 of Pregnancy
- Week 11 of Pregnancy
- Week 12 of Pregnancy
- Week 13 of Pregnancy
- Week 14 of Pregnancy
- Week 15 of Pregnancy
- Week 16 of Pregnancy
- Week 17 of Pregnancy
- Week 18 of Pregnancy
- Week 19 of Pregnancy
- Week 20 of Pregnancy
- Week 21 of Pregnancy
- Week 22 of Pregnancy
- Week 23 of Pregnancy
- Week 24 of Pregnancy
- Week 25 of Pregnancy
- Week 26 of Pregnancy
- Week 27 of Pregnancy
- Week 28 of Pregnancy
- Week 29 of Pregnancy
- Week 30 of Pregnancy
- Week 31 of Pregnancy
- Week 32 of Pregnancy
- Week 33 of Pregnancy
- Week 34 of Pregnancy
- Week 35 of Pregnancy
- Week 36 of Pregnancy
- Week 37 of Pregnancy
- Week 38 of Pregnancy
- Week 39 of Pregnancy
- Week 40 of Pregnancy
Your 1st Week
The 280-day countdown begins here-even though you haven't yet conceived.
It's business as usual for your body this week. You're having a period, so you know you're not pregnant. But if you conceive during this menstrual cycle, the first day of your period will count as the first day of pregnancy. It's a good idea to review your lifestyle and to make sure that you understand how everything works "inside." Knowing the facts may help to raise your chances of conceiving.
Your reproductive organs
1. Muscular wall of uterus
2. The thick lining of the uterus (endometrium) that built up during your last menstrual cycle is shed as you have your period.
3. Cervix
4. Vagina
5. Bladder
6. The pre-pregnant uterus is about the size of a plum.
7. Ovary
8. Fallopian tube
9. The ovarian ligament stabilizes the ovary within the abdomen.
10. Each ovary contains eggs at various stages of development. By the end of next week, at the mid-point of your cycle, ovulation may occur. This is when a mature egg is released from its follicle.
11. The Fallopian tube is the passageway down which a newly released egg travels on its way to the uterus.
Pregnancy Day by Day
Excerpted from Pregnancy Day by Day.
Copyright © 2008 Dorling Kindersley Limited.
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