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    Pregnancy: The Three Steps of Pregnancy 1. Ovulation: The Ovary Releases A Mature Egg

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    Pregnancy begins with conception and ends with birth. Conception occurs through a three step process: 1) Ovulation releases an egg from the ovary, 2) Fertilization happens if a sperm fertilizes the egg within 24 hours in the fallopian tube, 3) Implantation occurs a week later when the fertilized egg attaches to the lining of the uterus and pregnancy is established. The embryo's cells begin rapidly dividing and developing into a blastocyst that implants in the uterus, preventing menstruation and signaling the start of pregnancy.

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    Pregnancy begins with conception and ends with birth. Conception occurs through a three step process: 1) Ovulation releases an egg from the ovary, 2) Fertilization happens if a sperm fertilizes the egg within 24 hours in the fallopian tube, 3) Implantation occurs a week later when the fertilized egg attaches to the lining of the uterus and pregnancy is established. The embryo's cells begin rapidly dividing and developing into a blastocyst that implants in the uterus, preventing menstruation and signaling the start of pregnancy.

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    Pregnancy begins with conception and ends with birth. Conception occurs through a three step process: 1) Ovulation releases an egg from the ovary, 2) Fertilization happens if a sperm fertilizes the egg within 24 hours in the fallopian tube, 3) Implantation occurs a week later when the fertilized egg attaches to the lining of the uterus and pregnancy is established. The embryo's cells begin rapidly dividing and developing into a blastocyst that implants in the uterus, preventing menstruation and signaling the start of pregnancy.

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    Pregnancy

    Definition
    · Pregnancy is the time from fertilization of an egg, also known as
    conception, to birth.
    · Conception is the process that begins with the fertilization of an egg and
    ends with the implantation of an egg into a woman’s uterus

    The Three Steps of Pregnancy


    1. Ovulation: The ovary releases a mature egg
    Ovulation
    A woman conceives around the time when she is ovulating; that is, when an mature egg
    has been released from one of her ovaries into one of her fallopian tubes.

    2. Fertilization: Sperm meet the Egg

    Fertilization
    During sex, sperm are ejaculated from a man’s penis into a woman’s vagina. In one
    ejaculation there may be more than 300 million sperm. Most of the sperm leak out of the
    vagina but some begin to swim up through the cervix. When a woman is ovulating, the
    mucus in the cervix is thinner than usual to let sperm pass through more easily. Sperm
    swim into the uterus and into the fallopian tubes. Fertilization takes place if a sperm joins
    with an egg and fertilizes it
    · Where does fertilization occur? ANS: Ampulla
    · How long does fertilization occur? ANS: 24 hrs/1day (it consist of the sperm
    penetrating the egg’s shell, fusing with cytoplasm and triggering a series of genetic
    division).

    3. Implantation: The fertilized egg attaches to the lining of the uterus and
    pregnancy begins

    Implantation
    During the week after fertilization, the fertilized egg (which is now an embryo) moves slowly down the
    fallopian tube and into the uterus. It is already growing. The embryo attaches itself firmly to the specially
    thickened uterus lining. This is called implantation. Hormones released by the embryonic tissue prevent
    the uterus lining from being shed. This is why women miss their periods when they are pregnant.
    Immediately following fertilization, cell division is initiated. The fertilized egg (pre-implantation embryo) then divides
    into 2 cells, 4 cells, 8 cells, etc. A morula (solid mass of cells = blastomeres) develops about 3-4 days after
    fertilization, and a cavity (blastocele) subsequently forms within this mass of cells to form a blastocyst (about 4-5 days
    after fertilization). The pre-implantation embryo normally leaves the fallopian tube to enter the uterine cavity at the
    late morula or blastocyst stage of (embryonic) development.

    The blastocyst normally “hatches” from the zona pellucida (shell) within the uterine cavity and the thickened region
    of the blastocyst (the “inner cell mass”) adheres to and implants into the endometrial lining. The embryo’s initial outer
    shell of trophoblast cells is called cytotrophoblast and following implantation some of these (cytotrophoblast) cells
    fuse to form multinucleated placental cells called syncytiotrophoblast. Syncytiotrophoblast will continue to grow
    they form finger like projection called villi. Within this villi start to develop little fetal blood vessels.

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