From today we will offer in Babies and more a very special content that will consist of nine posts, one per month, in which we will detail the changes that occur in women and in the baby in each month of pregnancy.
Pregnancy is a moment of maximum fulfillment, but that of the greatest, in the life of a woman who wishes to be a mother. While each stage of pregnancy is important, the first month It is particular because it marks the beginning of a new life, your son.
It covers from week 0 to week 6. Not because the first month has 6 weeks, but because fertilization, that is to say the union of an egg and a sperm cell, occurs, when we talk about regular periods, in the second week.
As you know, a pregnancy consists of 40 weeks from the first day of the last period. That is, if ovulation and fertilization occur in the middle of the woman's cycle (one cycle = 4 weeks, half of the cycle = 2 weeks), gestation begins after the second week. Forty weeks of pregnancy is 38 weeks of gestation. To obtain the probable date of delivery, the date of the last menstruation is taken and 9 months + one week are added.
Fertilization
At first month Fertilization occurs, a miraculous moment of nature from which all kinds of changes begin to occur in the woman's body to house a new life.
The zygote that is formed by fertilization and that contains genetic information from both parents begins to multiply to form an embryo that is implanted in the mother's womb. To know in more detail what happens the first days after fertilization you can check our pregnancy calendar week by week (Seeing that the rule does not come you will surely decide to take a pregnancy test. It is important to know how and when to do it. For the results to be reliable, it must be done at least one day late and for greater safety, with the first urine of the day. Anyway, the tests are increasingly sensitive and can be performed at any time of the day and some like the new Clearblue digital test can be performed four days before the day the rule should come. The tests should be well used so that the results are reliable and do not give rise to confusion, a major cause of stress in a person who is looking to get pregnant. If the results are inconclusive, that is to say that the result is negative but you have pregnancy symptoms and the rule has not come, it may be a false negative, so repeat the test two or three days later but remember not It is advisable to abuse pregnancy tests. Confirmation of pregnancy is very moving news for a woman, speaking emotionally. The hormones also begin to make their own in this field, so you may find yourself more sensitive and easily irritable. As soon as you find out that you are pregnant, you should ask a gynecologist to confirm the pregnancy by means of an ultrasound and indicate the first blood tests to ensure proper medical control. In addition, if you still did not take it you should start taking folic acid, an essential vitamin for the formation of the baby in the first weeks. Ideally, you should start taking it at least one month before becoming pregnant since it serves to prevent congenital neural tube defects, which begins to form before you confirm that you are pregnant. If you didn't do it until now, after the pregnancy is confirmed you should start taking care of yourself. That means neither a drop of alcohol, nor medications and leaving aside tobacco, three substances that are extremely harmful to the health of the embryo that has begun to form. Choose healthy lifestyles, eat a balanced diet prioritizing the consumption of cereals, dairy, fruits and vegetables that provide vitamins and nutrients to the body, rest everything you need and do not do too intense physical activity, even if you do not neglect exercise . After the sixth week of gestation, your first month of pregnancy, four weeks of incredible changes in your body. In the next installment we will talk in detail about the changes that occur during the second month of pregnancy, in which you will probably have an ultrasound to confirm the pregnancy.The care in the first month of pregnancy
