Week 2

Although at this stage you are not technically pregnant, you would be surprised to know that your body is in a mode to produce truckloads of pregnancy hormones. Ideally, pregnancy is measured on a 0 to 40 weeks of calendar, and the first day of pregnancy is calculated on the first day of your last menstrual cycle. You only become pregnant on the end of week two or three, based on as and when your body ovulates. And soon, your baby is going to grow faster than it will at any other time of your pregnancy. Exciting, isn’t it? Even though you are not pregnant yet, but soon you are about to release an egg, which would grow into a baby soon when it is fertilised by your partner’s sperm. Last week, a boost in the amount of oestrogen and progesterone charting through your bloodstream aggravated your uterus to form a blood-rich, lush lining of tissue to aid a soon-to-be fertilised egg. During the same time, the eggs in your ovaries were ripening in fluid-filled sacs called follicles. During this period, from an average of one of the 250 million sperms ejaculated by your mate will be swimming all the way from your vagina to your cervix, up to your uterus to the fallopian tube for the egg to penetrate. Out of these 250 million, mere 400 sperms will survive the long 10-hour journey towards the egg, out of which one will succeed in burrowing itself through the outer membrane.