Week 1

Spaced between 13-week trimesters, a full round of pregnancy lasts up to 280 days, i.e. around 40 weeks of term period. Kick-starting from the very first day of your last menstrual period, as of now you haven’t even conceived according to your physician’s evaluation. This is because ovulation occurs two week post your mensuration date. Basically, your first day of pregnancy is during your last menstrual period. So, the bottom line is: if growing a human being inside you isn’t oddly strange and packed full of emotions, the day you are officially told you have conceived, you are already two weeks in your pregnancy. As of now what you have is an anxious egg and a whole bunch of eager sperms standing at the starting gates, while your body is working hard to gear up for the event that paves the way for the big O, Ovulation. As of now you won’t notice anything remarkably changed in your body yet, but you must schedule an appointment with your gynaecologist soon for a blood test and your first prenatal appointment. Take a list of questions with you. And yes, totally avoid drugs (even if they are over-the-counter medicines), alcohol. Cigarettes, excessive sugar and smoke, and replace it all with prenatal vitamins.