During this stage of your pregnancy yet, you do not have a baby growing just yet, but your body is in the preparation stages for ovulation, which is the step before conception. Are you wondering how you can already be considered to be two weeks pregnant before you have even conceived the baby? With your pregnancy developing two weeks before conception, you may wonder how you can be pregnant without having conceived a child.

Conception is something that typically occurs while you are in the second week of your pregnancy, or two weeks following your last menstrual period. Even when you are in the process of menstruating, your body is working on preparing for the baby.

The conception process, and pregnancy developing:

• First, one of the eggs that are maturing in your ovaries is released.
• This process is known as ovulation, and it typically occurs between 11 days and 14 days after the end of your menstrual period.
• After ovulation occurs, the egg is going to move down through the fallopian tube, which is a tubal structure that connects your uterus to your ovary, and the egg waits here to be fertilized.
• If you engage in sexual intercourse during this phase, then you may become pregnant!
• The sperm can actually live in your body for as long as six days. Once your egg has been released, it has to be fertilized within a period of only 12 to 24 hours.
• At this point in time, the egg is only approximately 1/200th of an inch large, and it is too small for you to see with a naked eye.

Although the conception may not have occurred yet at this point in time, your body is still working on getting ready for the pregnancy. For example, when you are at two weeks, a new lining is being developed in your uterus, thickening so that it will be able to nourish your newly conceived baby. Your body is also sending out chemical signals and hormones, releasing the egg from a follicle within your ovary. When the egg is released, it is released into the fallopian tube, and this is where it waits until it has been fertilized. The hormones that are at work are progesterone and estrogen, and they cause the temperature of your body to increase somewhat. Using a basal body temperature will help you detect this slight change in temperature, which will indicate when ovulating is taking place.

Occasionally during the ovulation process, the ovary can produce more than a single egg, resulting in what is known as non-identical or fraternal twins, or triplets or even larger numbers of children depending on how many eggs are released, providing that all of the eggs have been fertilized.

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