2 weeks pregnant
Childbirth usually occurs about 38 weeks after fertilization (conception), approximately 40 weeks from the last normal menstrual period. The date of delivery is considered normal medically if it falls within two weeks of the calculated date. The calculation of this date involves the assumption of a regular 28-day period. But since it’s often difficult to pinpoint exactly when egg and sperm merged, doctors and midwives simply count 40 weeks of pregnancy beginning with the onset of your last period. That’s why you’re already considered to be two weeks into your pregnancy when fertilization occurs.
1 Week Pregnant
– While this is technically considered the first week of your pregnancy, baby is still only an egg in your ovary. The first day of your period is considered Day 1 of the 280 days of your pregnancy even though conception won’t occur for another 14 days.
-Now would be a good time to put an end on all those bad habits like smoking, drug use and drinking. You’ll also want to start taking a prenatal vitamin with folic acid—a B vitamin that prevents brain and neural-tube birth defects. It works best if you take it before you conceive and in the early days of pregnancy.
A lot of things have to fall into place for conception to happen — in this case, timing really is everything. To boost your odds, aim to have sex sometime between 72 hours before you ovulate and 24 hours after. (You’re trying to accommodate the lifespan of both sperm, which survive for up to 72 hours, and the egg, which lives no more than 24 hours after ovulation.) Now’s not the time to hesitate: Make sure your mate clears his calendar and that the two of you have plenty of time together to make love.
2 Week pregnant
A conception week. At the beginning of this week (often around day 14 of a 28-day cycle), you ovulate: One of your eggs erupts from its follicle and is swept away from your ovary and into a Fallopian tube. During the next 12 to 24 hours that egg will be fertilized if one of the 250 million sperm (on average) your mate ejaculates manages to swim all the way from your vagina through your cervix, up into your uterus to the Fallopian tube and penetrates the egg. Only about 400 sperm will survive the arduous ten-hour journey to the egg, and only one will succeed in burrowing through its outer membrane. (It takes about 20 minutes for the lucky winner to find his way in.)
Your body doesn’t know what’s hit it yet, and it won’t until at least next week.
Once the egg’s been fertilized, it will split into two nuclei that contain the genes of you and your partner Congratulations, you’re pregnant … you just don’t know it yet!
“Am I pregnant?” is probably the most common health question women ask. The signs and symptoms of early pregnancy are easy to recognize, particularly if this is not your first pregnancy. No matter how many times you get pregnant, the signs and symptoms of early pregnancy are the same. However, this does not mean that you will experience every pregnancy the same way. For example, during one pregnancy, you may experience incredible breast pain or nausea and vomiting, while during another pregnancy you might not experience these symptoms at all. The simple fact is that each pregnancy, just like each newborn, is different. So, don’t count on having the same symptoms or the same intensity of symptoms during consecutive pregnancies.