The development of your baby –
This might make you feel awkward but you still actually are not pregnant. The fertilization of your egg with the help of the sperm will take place only at the end of this week. The gender of your baby will be determined at the time of fertilization and then you can start thinking of the colour you want to paint your nursery but for that you still have to wait for about another week. Out of the 46 chromosomes that a responsible for the complete make up of the baby, only two genes, one from the egg and the other from the sperm determines the sex of the baby. These genes are called the sex chromosomes. Every egg is blessed with an X sex chromosome while every sperm might have an X or a Y and this determines the sex of the child. An XX makes a girl child and a XY makes a girl child.
The development of your body -
By this time the lining of your uterus which nourishes the baby is developing and follicle stimulating hormones are being secreted by your body as well. FSH helps an egg to mature. By the end of this week when you are at the mid point of your menstruation (provided you have a regular 28 day cycle) ovulation will take place that is an egg will be released into the fallopian tube by your ovary. You are most probably going to conceive then. Indulging in sexual intercourse without protection round about this time will definitely get you pregnant. On your partner’s ejaculation a few million sperms pass through the vagina and at least a few hundred enter to the fallopian tube. Here in most cases only one sperm gets to fuse with the waiting egg and fertilization follows. This will mean that you have become pregnant and in forty weeks from now you will have your baby. However, it is not till before a few weeks you see changes taking place in your body yet.
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