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In the surgery. 5 months pregnant is VERY detectable

edit: wait sry - it also says 2 weeks, so now I dont know how to read what its saying

The 5 month figure is after the entire summer following the surgery and recovery. The embryo was two weeks old during the surgery in May.

A standard urine-based pregnancy test turns positive ~10-12 days after conception. So the embryo must’ve been even younger. Probably 3-6 days.

Conception happens in the Fallopian tube, it takes 2-3 days for the fertilized egg to reach the uterus for nidation.

From a hormonal level, a pregnancy is undetectable, because literally nothing happens in the woman’s body at first. The increase in progesterone happens after every ovulation. The embryo isn’t connected to the mothers blood stream yet. And you can’t see on an ultra sonic scan whether the egg is fertilized or not.

What a crazy story.

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