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  2. Gestational age - Wikipedia

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    Gestational age. For actual age of gestation, see Human fertilization § Fertilization age. In obstetrics, gestational age is a measure of the age of a pregnancy taken from the beginning of the woman's last menstrual period (LMP), [1] or the corresponding age of the gestation as estimated by a more accurate method, if available.

  3. Timeline of human prenatal development - Wikipedia

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    Gestational age: 3 weeks and 0 days until 3 weeks and 6 days old. 22–28 days from last menstruation. Embryonic age: Week nr 2. 1 week old. 8–14 days from fertilization. Trophoblast cells surrounding the embryonic cells proliferate and invade deeper into the uterine lining. They will eventually form the placenta and embryonic membranes.

  4. Menstrual cycle - Wikipedia

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    The menstrual cycle is a series of natural changes in hormone production and the structures of the uterus and ovaries of the female reproductive system that makes pregnancy possible. The ovarian cycle controls the production and release of eggs and the cyclic release of estrogen and progesterone. The uterine cycle governs the preparation and ...

  5. Pregnancy - Wikipedia

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    A pregnancy may end in a live birth, a miscarriage, an induced abortion, or a stillbirth. Childbirth typically occurs around 40 weeks from the start of the last menstrual period (LMP), a span known as the gestational age. This is just over nine months. Counting by fertilization age, the length is about 38 weeks.

  6. Gravidity and parity - Wikipedia

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    Gravidity and parity. In biology and medicine, gravidity and parity are the number of times a female has been pregnant (gravidity) and carried the pregnancies to a viable gestational age (parity). [1] [2] These two terms are usually coupled, sometimes with additional terms, to indicate more details of the female's obstetric history. [3]

  7. Abortion in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Wade, asked, "In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that states' laws which made it illegal for a woman to have an abortion up to three months of pregnancy were unconstitutional, and that the decision on whether a woman should have an abortion up to three months of pregnancy should be left to the woman and her doctor to decide. In general, do ...

  8. Human chorionic gonadotropin - Wikipedia

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    Human chorionic gonadotropin ( hCG) is a hormone for the maternal recognition of pregnancy produced by trophoblast cells that are surrounding a growing embryo (syncytiotrophoblast initially), which eventually forms the placenta after implantation. [1] [2] The presence of hCG is detected in some pregnancy tests (HCG pregnancy strip tests).

  9. Nutrition and pregnancy - Wikipedia

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    Pregnant woman eating fruit. Nutrition and pregnancy refers to the nutrient intake, and dietary planning that is undertaken before, during and after pregnancy. Nutrition of the fetus begins at conception. For this reason, the nutrition of the mother is important from before conception (probably several months before) as well as throughout ...

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