Pregnancy – Week 1

Mum

You are not technically pregnant in the first two weeks although they are part of the countdown of your pregnancy. In about another week you’ll have an opportunity to conceive because you’ll be ovulating.

Your body is preparing for your baby to live and grow by increasing oestrogen and progesterone. It’s working overtime to get ready for pregnancy and so this time is included as the first steps of your motherhood.  A number of changes will happen to your cervical secretions making your fallopian tubes ready to receive sperm when the egg is released.

The sperm is protected for 3-5 days until ovulation.  At this time one follicle ruptures and its egg is released.  The fertile phase is usually between day 10 and day 18 after you have a period and ovulation generally occurs on day 14.

If you engage in sexual intercourse around 1-3 days prior to ovulation, you might have a higher chance of conception. This way the sperm is ready for an egg to be released. This becomes a structure that’s called corpus luteum and produces progesterone, the hormone required for an embryo to develop.

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