Pregnancy Calendar - 3rd Week
- Limit the intake of coffee, tea and alcohol that dehydrate you!
- Try to drink 8 glasses of water daily!
- Choose healthy foods and avoid starting any diet!
For the mother:
- When your partner ejaculates during intercourse millions of sperm are released, but only a few hundred of them cross the vagina and the fallopian tube, and only one will fertilize the ovulum that awaits. The sperm must pass through the vagina, cervix and uterus itself, "swimming" through the fallopian tubes.
- Pregnancy is a period of intense hormonal activity with existing hormone levels rising dramatically, and new hormones are created to support the process of pregnancy.
- The newly fertilized ovulum is called a zygote. In between 12 and 20 hours since its successful fertilization the zygote begins to split into two parts, copying its DNA. The zygote divides numerous times until a solid sphere, the size of a pinhead, is formed. This sphere is now known as a morula. Gradually the morula from solid becomes a cavity of cells filled with liquid, the blastocyst. Within the blastocyst there is a small concentration of internal cells from which the fetus will be formed.
- The period of the first 12 weeks is critical for fetal development because your baby is converted from a fertilized ovulum into a complete and complex organism.
