The fantasy drift of a fertilized egg

"If every shift in our lives takes us further, then we truly experience the dedication of life."

- The fantasy drift of the young pi

Inside us, there is a traveler named Egg.

Whenever a small tadpole knocks on the door of an egg and makes a lonely egg a fertilized egg, they will join hands and set out from the ovary with the goal of finding a treasure that can develop from a fertilized egg into an embryo, and embark on a journey that may not be long, but it must be very grand.

At the end of this trip, it will undergo some life-related transformations.

As a reader, you may also be able to experience the dedication of life.

Starting from the ovaries, the terrain gradually changes from open to narrow. After passing through the "ampullatan" where sperm and egg meet, there is a long tunnel, which is the legendary "fallopian tube" - it sounds like the only way for an egg to go.

At the end of the tunnel of the fallopian tubes is the final destination of the fertilized egg: a safe zone made up of the endometrium. The fertilized egg will implant there, branch out in forty weeks or so, and grow from a tiny germ cell to a whole new life.

As the first maze outside the novice village, there are no difficult challenges in the fallopian tube tunnel, nor will a level 1 mob jump out to hinder the progress of the fertilized egg. The tunnel, however, has its own troubles: its walls are covered with "tentacles."

These tentacles, called ciliary cells, grow from the surface of the cells that make up the fallopian tubes and can swing back and forth over a certain range. Although they look at the secret fear, they are actually diligent porters. The eggs are pushed forward by their wobbles, and the tunnel of the fallopian tubes itself also pushes the fertilized egg towards the uterus by peristalsis. The fertilized egg only needs a little effort to easily complete the longest part of this journey, which is really one side lying flat, eight parties supporting...

However, although these porters are diligent, their work efficiency is somewhat low. Although the fallopian tubes are only 8-14 cm long, it takes 5-6 days for the fertilized eggs to be slowly lifted forward by the tentacles to rub from the ovaries to the uterus...

And along the way, there may be dangers.

Sometimes, the work of a diligent porter will go wrong, moving the fertilized egg in the opposite direction; sometimes, the fertilized egg may have its own ideas, deviate from the established route and run wildly, crashing all the way back into the tubal tunnel. Although these conditions are rare (about 1-2% of all pregnancies), once they occur, they can cause great harm like travelers who accidentally trigger an avalanche.

Take ectopic pregnancy, for example. Fertilized eggs that deviate from the established route sometimes die naturally in remote and harsh areas, but other times they are strong enough to take root in the tunnels of the fallopian tubes. When these lost fertilized eggs gradually develop into embryos, they may burst the narrow tunnel of fallopian tubes due to their huge size. This can lead to massive bleeding from the pregnant subject, i.e. expectant mother, and even death from shock.

Therefore, every expectant mother has to risk the willfulness of the fertilized egg when giving birth, so that it is possible to give birth to a healthy new life. This difficult challenge will be experienced many times throughout pregnancy.

Every mother is really great and strong.

Fortunately, most fertilized eggs are still reasonable. Most of them will successfully break through the fallopian tube tunnel and enter a bright red forest after 5-6 days of travel. Here, it is its destination "endometrium"; the "plant" in this forest is called "columnar epithelium". The columnar epithelium is so tall and dense that once the fertilized eggs enter the forest, they are completely hidden under the columnar epithelium. As a result, the fertilized eggs that have been wandering for a long time have finally obtained a safe shelter.

In this sanctuary, the fertilized egg will find a piece of "land," or "matrix" (a tissue that grows beneath the columnar epithelium), settle there, and wait for about forty weeks to hatch. This process of settlement, we call it "implantation". The endometrium spontaneously provides nutrients and water to the implanted fertilized egg, and when the fertilized egg feels ripe, it can upgrade and evolve from a cell to a new human being with life.

No matter how many times it is repeated, the birth of a new life seems wonderful enough to be exciting.

By the way, the shelter of the endometrium can sometimes become dangerous and tricky. In order to receive a fertilized egg, a woman's uterine lining grows spontaneously and continuously from the age of 12-15. However, if, for various reasons, the traveler's fertilized eggs do not successfully reach the endometrium of the destination, the destination will "disappoint" disintegrate and flow out of the body along with the blood.

We generally call it menstruation.

Menstruation generally does not disappear completely until the age of 40-58. In other words, the "workaholic" of the endometrium, just to receive a fertilized egg that may not be reached, will continue to prepare for more than thirty years, and constantly iteratively reborn for this purpose, and will only pause for a period of time after the successful implantation of the fertilized egg. Sometimes I really don't know whether to praise it or scold it...

In short, at this point, the long journey of the fertilized egg will come to an end for the time being.

However, implantation of a fertilized egg is far from the end of the gestation process. The next ten months, and the problems and challenges that come with it, are the long journeys that a mother has to go through.

Every mother is worthy of respect: their journey is full of dangers, but the reward at the end will be a new life full of brilliance.

This journey about fertilized eggs is equally worthy of respect:

It has undergone some life-related transformations.

And as a reader, I believe that you also experience the dedication of life as a result.