How Does a Woman Get Pregnant?

By Miriam Sky

Getting pregnant is a numbers game and getting pregnant also means getting very lucky. In order to get pregnant, you must do some effort with your partner to increase your odds of conceiving. You want to get pregnant but do you exactly know how pregnancy happens? Before pregnancy can be declared official, it has to undergo several processes and several stages.

Pregnancy happens when semen enters a female vagina which happens during unprotected intercourse. The sperm then unites with egg if a woman has ovulated. Ovulation happens once a month. The sperm and egg however have a lifespan.

The egg on the other hand, travels from the ovaries, goes to the fallopian tube, and into the uterus. The uterus can be called the ?meeting place? of the sperm and the egg. This is where they will unite and where the egg gets fertilized. This is the very first stage of pregnancy which is called conception. Conception happens when the sperm and egg unites and fertilized.

A pregnancy does not start until the fertilized egg attaches itself into the uterus. Once every month, the woman?s body prepares itself for a possible pregnancy by thickening the lining of the uterus. If the egg does not attach to the uterus, then the lining will pass out through the vagina. This is the very reason why you have your monthly periods. If the egg attaches itself to lining of the uterus, the egg then develops into an embryo. The embryo then develops into a fetus together with the placenta. Once this happens, it is official that your pregnancy has already happened.

However, if the sperm and the egg cell fail to unite, the egg dies and the uterine lining disintegrates. The blood and the tissue from the uterus will then passed out of the body through the vagina. This is the reason then why a woman has her menstruation monthly. - 30525

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