Starting today at Babies and offer a very special will consist of nine posts, one per month, which will detail the changes that occur in women and the baby in each month of pregnancy.
Pregnancy is a time of maximum fullness, but the highest in the life of a woman who wants to become a mother. While each of the stages of pregnancy are important, the first month is special because it marks the beginning of a new life, your son.
Ranging from week 0 to week 6. Not because the first month is 6 weeks, but because fertilization is the union of an ovum and a sperm, occurs when we talk about periods in the second week.
As you know, a pregnancy is 40 weeks are counted from the first day of the final rule. That is, if ovulation and fertilization occur in the middle of the cycle of women (one cycle = 4 weeks, half of the cycle = 2 weeks), pregnancy starts from the second week. Forty weeks of pregnancy is 38 weeks of gestation. For the probable date of birth is taken when the last menstrual period and adding 9 months + a week.
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Fertilization
In the first month fertilization occurs, an instant miracle of nature from which begin to occur in a woman's body all sorts of changes to accommodate a new life.
The zygote that is formed through fertilization and which contains genetic information from both parents begin to multiply to form an embryo that is implanted in the womb. To learn in more detail what happened the first days after fertilization can check our calendar pregnancy week to week (week 0 to week 4).
Hormones initiate a machinery responsible for providing everything necessary for the embryo to develop inside the womb. Begins to form the placenta produces a hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin, the hormone that is detected in pregnancy tests.
The first symptoms of pregnancy
You may start to notice the early symptoms of pregnancy such as swollen breasts, abdominal pain, fatigue, nausea and dizziness. Or, you can still feel no but your intuition sends you a signal that a new being begins to grow inside you.
The most obvious symptom that may have been a pregnancy is the absence of menstruation. Four weeks after the last menstrual period should download the rule, which will not happen if you are pregnant. In some cases, especially mothers, is an implantation bleed that can be mistaken for menstruation, but it is a lighter bleeding.
The pregnancy test
testAl see that the rule is certainly not decide to make a pregnancy test. It is important to know how and when to do so. For the results are reliable, there must be at least a day late and for increased security, with the first urine of the day.
However, the tests are becoming more sensitive and can be made at any time of day and some as the new Clearblue digital test can be performed four days before the day that should go with the rule.
The tests should be properly used so that the results are reliable and do not lead to confusion, a great source of stress in a person seeking to become pregnant. If the results are not conclusive, ie that the result is negative but you have symptoms of pregnancy and has not been the rule, it could be a false negative, so we repeated the test two or three days later but that no it is advisable to abuse the pregnancy test.
Confirmation of pregnancy is a very movilizante news for a woman, speaking from the emotional point of view. Hormones also start to make your own in this area, so it is possible that you are more sensitive and easily irritable.
Early Care
As soon as you hear that you are pregnant you should seek consultation with a gynecologist to confirm pregnancy through an ultrasound and you specify the first blood test for a proper medical supervision.
Also, if you're not tomabas should start taking folic acid, a vitamin essential for the formation of the baby in the first few weeks. The ideal is to start taking at least a month before getting pregnant because it serves to prevent neural tube birth defects, which begins to form before you confirm that you are pregnant.
If you did not so far from confirming the pregnancy that you should start to watch. That means not a drop of alcohol or drugs and neglecting the snuff, three substances most harmful to the health of the embryo that has begun to form.
Choose healthy lifestyles, leads a balanced diet prioritizing the consumption of cereals, dairy, fruits and vegetables provide vitamins and nutrients to the body, everything you need to rest and not doing physical activity too much, but do not leave aside the exercise .
Completed the sixth week of gestation will have fulfilled your first month of pregnancy, four weeks of incredible changes in your body.
In the next installment we will talk in detail about the changes that occur during the second month of pregnancy, in which you will perform an ultrasound to confirm pregnancy.
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