Pregnant Father

Approximately two weeks after conception or just one after you miss your period, an obstetrician, nurse-midwife, or clinictioner can confirm your pregnancy by testing a sample of your urine and examining you internally. What a pregnancy test is actually measuring is a circulating hormone known as human chorionic gonadotropin or HCG, produced by pregnancy tissues and in both your blood and your urine after conception. In your mother’s day, the urine containing HCG was into a frog or rabbit to uncover a budding pregnancy. doctors have more accurate ways of detecting the level of HCG in your system called irnrnunoassays. However, it is very difficult to detect any pregnancy’ changes in a uterus one day after 3. Not until implantation has occurred at days 6 through 10, and it is only at that time that hormones are being excreted, So at ten to fourteen days, you can begin to pick up changes and detect 3. pregnancy. Home pregnancy kits, which use an immunoassay are available in most pharmacies and may be the fastest route to answer this major life question: Are you pregnant? Follow the package directions carefully. Kits rely on a chemical. When combined with your urine in a little test tube, this chemical will change colors in the presence of HCG

Physical effects

Everyone is different but in the first weeks after conception there are early signs of pregnancy that are quite predictable. Set off the marked shift in hormone levels in your body, some of these symptoms may disappear after the end of your first three months. Meanwhile, if you think you might be pregnant. watch for these changes:

You missed your period. If your menstrual cycle is normally irregular, you are under a lot of stress, or feeling sick. this may not be a dependable signal. It is also possible to have a light, bloody discharge and still be pregnant. Some experts say that up to 22 percent of all expectant women report SOD1E bleeding early on.

Your breasts are sore. Tender, enlarged breasts may even tingle and become extra sensitive to touch.

YOU axe nauseous. Morning sickness. one of the classic signs of pregnancy doesn’t always happen in the morning. You can feel sick at any time of day.

You are exhausted and sleepy. Falling asleep at your desk? Dreaming of an afternoon nap? Ready for bed at 8:00 P.M.? Fatigue is a predictable signal of pregnancy.

You need to urinate frequently.

You feel faint or a little dizzy.

You have an achy, heavy sensation in your pelvis. You’ve become intensely emotional. Emotional instability is not all in your head. so don’t let anyone try to convince you that you are crazy. Hormonal changes are partly to blame.

Your taste buds have changed. Some women suddenly develop a strong distaste tor alcohol, coffee, and cigarette
smoke arid of a metallic sensation in their mouths.

Others begin to crave particular foods.

Other kinds of growth and activity are also taking place during the end of this first month. For example, a third, bubble like shelter must house the embryo, the amnion, and the yolk sac. On one side of the chorion are numerous little villi that grow into your uterus and form intricate webbings of blood vessels, multiplying, criss-crossing, and interlocking constantly to feed the placenta and give the embryo everything it could possibly need, including the umbilical cord. Quietly, the frenzy of this one-month production builds. Cells work frantically. You’ve got a baby in the making.

Take an imaginary look at your embryo near the very end of this fourth week. and you might be amazed at how very specialized the existing three layers of growing cells have become. From the outer layers will come your baby’s nervous system as well as the skin, hair, oil, and sweat glands. Meanwhile, in the middle will form the muscles, bones, kidneys, blood vessels, connective tissues, and even genital glands. Inside. the deepest layer of cells will eventually become important systems such as the digestive, the lungs, and the urinary tract. Early signs of a mouth, face, and throat are in place. Speeding at an incredibly fast pace, the unborn baby’s heart, a V-shaped tube that can be seen beneath the opening for the mouth, contracts, perhaps hesitantly at first, but regularly by the end of the fourth week. Beating 180 times a minute, the heart rate starts off very rapidly and through the pregnancy, it declines to about 140 as the baby’s system becomes more complex. When you are forming small capillaries, those blood vessels impede the blood so the baby can pick up more oxygen and the heart doesn’t have to beat as fast. Pumping blood through the developing systems, this heart may be the clue you are waiting to hear in one of your upcoming doctor’s visits.

Dramatic changes occur almost overnight now. You are officially six weeks pregnant, but your tiny embryo is four weeks along. With no arms visible on days 24, 25, or 26, he or she will produce arm buds within hours and in the speed of just another day. clumps grow into what look like paws, with visible signs of finger growth, too. Leg growth is apparent soon after. Think about it: your body is providing the womb and your baby is growing arms and legs. As Dr. Virginia Apgar stated, “Never again will this human being grow as rapidly or change as much as it has during the first month of prenatal life.” Still tiny, of course, your embryo is 10,000 times bigger than he or she was as a fertilized ovum. For a more tangible guide, imagine an apple seed.

After the first week and up to the eighth week of the product of your conception is called an imagine that your own little embryo has a which looks like a large bulge at the chest front? I’, rudimen- tary brain and spinal cord are also present. Shallow pits onthe sides of the head show where eyes and ears will later grow. In size, picture anywhere from one-quarter inch to one and one-tenth inches long. At this point, you haven’t even missed your period yet. In fact, that rich, spongy lining in your uterus, which served the implantation adventure quite well, is what would have been shed during regular monthly menstruation. Because you have an embryo growing, changing, and manufacturing profound changes in your womb. you miss this monthly event, experiencing one of the first clear signs of pregnancy. The embryo is secreting a hormone, known as human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), into your blood system, which interferes with menstruation. This is the hormone that will appear in your urine on a pregnancy test and alert you to the news of a new life beginning.

By the end of the first real lunar month (four weeks) of growth, some of the rapidly dividing cells inside this little “blister” form the placenta, growing more inroads into your uterine cavity and paving the way for its expanding job of nourishing the unborn baby. Inside, the embryo is lengthening and becoming encapsulated in what appears to be a water-tight balloon sac, called the amnion. Fluids from your own body fill the sac and cushion your baby from all the bumps, lumps, and movement in your busy life. Known as the amniotic fluid, this watery substance keeps a consistent temperature and provides a weightless environment that allows the developing baby to exercise and move around. Next to the embryo another little sac appears. Called the yolk sac, this teeny cluster of cells always floats nearby, consists of tiny blood vessels, and provides the blood for the embryo, which is still too immature to do so for itself.

Implantation, or the point at which the fertilized egg attaches itself to the soft spongy, welcoming lining of your is now ready to occur. You may be somewhere into your second or third week by now and unaware that such a momentous event is taking place, Some women experience a bit of bleeding when this happens. Little “fingers” or villi from the edges of the fertilized egg reach out to touch you, often on the upper. back wall of the womb. Not will this ovum develop into your baby, but a few of its rapidly dividing cells will become the placenta that nourishes your baby and the umbilical cord, too, which connects the to of you. You may also hear this fluid-filled cluster of cells referred to as a blastocyst now.
If you were to try to picture this happening inside your uterus, imagine a blister. “Implantation looks like a translucent blister on the lining of the uterus,” according to Doted physician Virginia Apgar, ‘ret. it’s like no blister experienced in the outside world. As hollow’ cluster of new cells burrows its way into the the uterus, pushing aside some of the maternal cells end destroying others, tapping into the maternal blood vessels and using maternal blood and cell bits for nourishment.” One of the more amazing aspects of this process is that your own body doesn’t reject such an invasion, see it as foreign, or try to destroy the little morula, now perhaps the size of the top of a pin. Although your unborn tissues may be very different from yams, your body’s immune doesn’t treat them as different. Your seems to undergo a dramatic attitude adjustment, accepting the “new kid on the block” peacefully. A bacterial or viral invasion would be a different story indeed. Such peace would never be possible if you weren’t pregnant.

Fertilization occurs when the sperm enters the egg. loses its tail, and its head begins to swell. (Swelled head? Right! Sounds like the little guy is proud of his accomplishment!) As this union takes place, a single cell is formed. From this tiny cell, your baby will grow. Although timing the start of a pregnancy is imprecise science. some couples have good hunches about when this new life began based on their sex lives together. Other couples. who have been receiving outside medical intervention for fertility problems, may also have an exact date of fertilization.
Only a few hours after penetration, the fertilized egg, sometimes called a zygote, travels down the fallopian tube toward its destination in the uterus, or womb. It will take six days to reach the uterus and eight to ten days for implantation. As it does so, this cell is dividing, dividing, and dividing again. What you have done is produce a new mixture of chromosomes from both you and your partner. From two cells, there are four. From four cells, there are soon eight, and so on. Some cells divide quicker than others, but as this little fertilized ovum gradually becomes more complicated, it floats down your fallopian tube surrounded by nutrient cells. the end of this first week, a nearly invisible, fertilized
ovum may boast anywhere from more than one hundred cells all closely knit into a little bail and ready to move into your uterus. Experts sometimes refer to this fertilized ovum now as a which means mulberry in Latin. Inside your womb.The morula finds important nutrients-sugars, salts, and critical elements-for growth. Still floating, it will grow quickly and become more sophisticated as the cells start specializing and taking on different tasks. Some link up to create kidneys. Others complete a small heart to pump blood. Timing is precise and the genetic blueprint, with fortysix chromosomes from you and forty-six chromosomes from your mate, lays a course for your unborn baby

Whether you are ecstatic about your new state, at the opposite end of the emotional spectrum and feeling blue, or somewhere in between joyful amusement and sheer panic, information is going to be key. In fact, no matter how you feel psychologically ignorance is never bliss when it comes to pregnancy and childbirth. Changes and challenges are going to come fast. For most normal women, pregnancy lasts approximately forty weeks. 280 days. nine months or, using childbirth language, three trimesters of three months each. Statistics tell us that 95 percent of all babies are born between the 266th and the 294th day after their conception. Two hundred and eighty days doesn’t sound like a very long time at all and it isn’t, especially when you consider the monumental metamorphosis that your body is now beginning, both physically and emotionally.

Shaky’? Scared’? Ecstatic’? Happy? Nervous’? Sick? Energetic? Exhausted? Joyous? Think about it: pregnancy is the only time in your life that you will ever be two people at once! Go easy on yourself.
Experts are usually uncertain about the exact date of fertilization, so your pregnancy and due date are timed and predicted on the basis of the first day of your last period. However, because unborn life really begins after one of your eggs is fertilized during intercourse, this roughly sketched time line of fetal development and activity is built on that foundation. Some charts of “fetal growth” start back at the
first day of your last period and not on the day of fertilization. Ovulation occurs around the fourteenth day after your last period and your body releases a healthy egg, ready and able to be impregnated a successful sperm. Your mate actually ejaculates up to 400 million sperm into your vagina during intercourse, but most never make it to the egg waiting in one of your fallopian tubes. The successful sperm is able to pass through the soft mucus being secreted by your cervix. If by chance this sperm arrives a little before the egg has been released, it can survive for up to two days.