Implantation
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.