{"id":308,"date":"2011-06-06T14:54:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T18:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/?page_id=308"},"modified":"2024-02-10T20:04:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T00:04:10","slug":"second-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/second-week\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Expect in the 2nd Week of Pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The second week is when your body has an egg all lined up for dispatch. It is getting ready to make its journey down one of your fallopian tubes, in the hopes of being fertilised. Fertilisation is the fun bit, enjoy it while you can. When you find yourself 8 months pregnant, you have to become very creative when it comes to bedroom activities. Actually, some people consider fluffing pillows bedroom activities when they are 7 months pregnant, let alone 8. <\/p>\n

This week<\/a> is all about bedroom antics, unless you hadn\u2019t guessed. Approximately 140 to 500 million tiny sperm will be doing battle to reach that one little egg. Only a measly 200 will actually make the grade and out of that 200, just one will manage to boogie his or her way to victory. <\/p>\n

Now is a good time to take a look at your diet and make sure you aren\u2019t taking any vitamin A supplements. Excessive levels of vitamin A have been associated with several birth defects<\/a>, including malformations of the head, brain, heart and spinal cord. Avoid eating liver or pate, which is also rich in vitamin A.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll also want to increase your calcium intake. If your growing baby doesn\u2019t get enough calcium, they will literally steal it from your bones and teeth, which isn\u2019t good news for you later in life. You\u2019ll need approximately 1200 milligrams of calcium a day whilst pregnant. Calcium rich foods are broccoli, spinach, tinned fish and dairy products. <\/p>\n

At the end of this week a mind blowing event will occur, you will become pregnant. Your egg will have been fertilised and will split into two nuclei, half mom\u2019s gorgeous genes and half dad\u2019s dodgy ones. That little ball of cells will double rapidly every 12 hours and will already know whether it\u2019s going to be a boy or a girl. Unfortunately you\u2019ll have to wait at least another 16 weeks or so to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The second week is when your body has an egg all lined up for dispatch. It is getting ready to make its journey down one of your fallopian tubes, in the hopes of being fertilised. Fertilisation is the fun bit, enjoy it while you can.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}