Morning-After Pill
What is the Morning-After Pill? The morning-after pill is a medication that can be used as emergency contraception (birth control). Emergency contraception isn’t the same as typical birth control pills that you might use daily or other forms of routine birth control. It’s used in situations where your birth control has either failed or you […]
Fetal Development: Stages of Growth
Fetal Development: Week-by-Week Stages of Pregnancy Within 24 hours after fertilization, the egg that will become your baby rapidly divides into many cells. By the eighth week of pregnancy, the embryo develops into a fetus. There are about 40 weeks to a typical pregnancy. These weeks are divided into three trimesters. When Does a Pregnancy […]