Fall in love. Get engage. Get married. Have kids. But wait! Have kids? Before this happens, the other gender, female, must first get pregnant. But let us give you some information first on how pregnancy in women becomes possible. Getting pregnant in medical term is also called conception or conceiving.

There are three basic known steps in conception: the ovulation, fertilization and implantation.

Ovulation happens about two weeks prior to a woman’s next menstrual period. In a woman’s two ovaries found on the women’s reproductive system, eggs are developed once every month. These developments are what we called the follicles. Once one if these follicles go to a process of growing and degenerating, it becomes mature, and sooner or later, would release the egg out of the ovary. Simple to say, the releasing of the egg from the ovaries is generally called ovulation.

After the ovulation, the egg will travel all the way down to the fallopian tube but would remain there until the egg will be introduced to a sperm before getting fertilized. However, if there are no sperm to penetrate the egg, fertilization won’t happen. Thus, to get pregnant will not happen, the same cycle or process repeats again until penetration happens.

But if it does, the union of the sperm and mature follicles a.k.a. the egg cell, then fertilization likely occurs. But, just to ensure that distractions won’t happen during the fertilization of this sperm and egg, an activity called coating happens to prevent any other sperm attempting to enter the egg.

The fertilization of the egg generally makes up the child’s genetic make-up. This process reveals the new life’s sexuality. The mystery about this new life’s gender depends from the type of chromosomes the woman and man releases. Since a woman only provides X chromosome, when a man also releases X chromosome, the gender will become a girl. But if the woman’s X chromosome is paired of the man’s Y chromosome, then it will be a boy. However, there is no way of knowing that until the baby is developed probably a couple of weeks and seen through ultrasound.

Finally, after fertilization and waiting for about 24 hours, the egg will divide into multiple cells. Then it will continue to have its stay for about three weeks in the fallopian tube through the uterus to be attached to the endometrium. First, the fertile egg first becomes a ball of solid eggs, and then becomes a ball of hollow eggs. And right before implantation, these hollow eggs, also known as the blastocyst will shed to its protective coating or covering. The process of implantation then happens, which is the attaching of the blastocyst to the endometrium. When this happens, to get pregnant is on its way where the baby’s nerve cell is formed, then develops into what we call an embryo, then until it will become a fetus.