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 Pregnant women live two lives simultaneously. They're going about their days, driving to work, or sitting down for coffee with a friend, essentially  living the lives they were in before they got pregnant. But now, at the same time, they could be doing it while also growing another human, laying down a brain stem, or working on a fetal heart. 

All these developmental things are going on, and you don't have direct control over them. In my pregnancies, I felt the weight of responsibility for all the things going on in my body. Even though I understood  that I couldn't directly control them. I don't think I spent enough time marveling at all the amazing things my body was doing.

So today I want to look at a few of those  things, focusing on some of the details of implantation, the unbelievable steps involved when an egg burrows into the uterine lining. I'm going to share details about some embryo hacks to make it into the mother's body.  Please enjoy this solo episode.