All About Pregnancy

The chances of getting pregnant if you have unprotected sexual intercourse are really high – in mid menstrual cycle it is a one in three chance.

Pregnancy occurs when an egg released from the ovary of a woman, meets up with a sperm from a man. This usually happens in the woman’s ‘fallopian tubes’. Once the man’s sperm has got into the woman’s egg, the ‘chromosomes’ from the ova (egg) and the sperm get together. The new cell that is formed is wafted down the fallopian tube into the woman’s uterus and gets embedded in the uterine wall which has got all soft and spongy ready for it bed down there.

If all goes well the cell continues to divide and divide and steadily grow so that the different parts of the baby develop. The whole process from when the sperm gets into the egg till the resulting baby is actually born takes, if everything goes well, about 9 months.