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Pregnancy

Pregnancy is the fertilization and development of offspring in a women's uterus.

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Fallopian tubes

Parenting; Pregnancy

The narrow ducts or tubes in a woman's abdomen that carries egg from the ovaries to the uterus. fertilisation most often occurs in the fallopian tubes.

Foetus

Parenting; Pregnancy

The name given to a baby in utero from eight weeks of development until birth.

Zygote

Parenting; Pregnancy

The fertilised egg before it begins to divide and grow into an embryo.

Lanugo

Parenting; Pregnancy

The fine temporary hair that covers a foetus from about 26 weeks and is sometimes still present at birth.

Latent labour

Parenting; Pregnancy

The first and longest phase of labour during which the cervix effaces and dilates to three centimeters.

Birth defect

Parenting; Pregnancy

An abnormality in a baby caused by an error during foetal development. Birth defects may or may not be genetic.

Hydatidiform mole

Parenting; Pregnancy

An abnormal pregnancy in which there is no fetus, only an abnormal mass growth.

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