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Implantation, hCG, and the first positive test all show up this week. The pregnancy is officially detectable, the smallest secret begins, and the math of telling people gets more careful.
Conception happens this week, and almost no one knows it. A fertilized cell splits, doubles, and travels toward the uterus while everyday life continues without registering the change.
Ovulation arrives on day 14 of a typical cycle, and the fertile window stays open for about six days. Inside that window, the choices and timing of week 2 do most of the work the rest of the pregnancy will rest on.
The pregnancy clock starts before conception — a calendar quirk that lets obstetricians pin a known date in a sea of guesswork. Eight names for a beginning that does not yet look like one.
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