If you?re reading this, your world is probably feeling a little off-kilter right now. ?I?m pregnant" Really"!? The majority of women don?t know they?re pregnant until several weeks after this point, but perhaps you?ve been on this particular roller coaster before, you?re in the care of a fertility clinic or you?ve had a sneaking suspicion that you should take an early-result pregnancy test. Three weeks pregnant" It was only a week ago that you ovulated and egg met sperm, so things are in their very, very early stages.
What?s going on in there: Embryo development at 3 weeks pregnant
Around three weeks pregnant, the fertilized egg is taking a five- to six-day journey through one of your fallopian tubes. Along the way, it?s dividing and redividing into identical cells and smaller than the period at the end of this sentence. Its ultimate destination" Your uterus, which is starting to develop a thicker lining as a cozy home for the next nine months. This fertilized egg is called a ?morula? at three or four days after fertilization because it is made of 16 cells and looks like a berry (?morula? is ?mulberry? in Latin) and a ?blastocyst? at five or six days after fertilization. And the follicle in your ovary where your egg started out" The empty space is filled with a mass of yellowish cells called the corpus luteum, which produces progesterone and estrogen to suppress menstruation and produce other nutrients that are needed to nourish the pregnancy.
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