PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Artificial Insemination, Fallopian Tube, Prenatal Development
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Average age of mothers at first birth during baby boomer phase woman were a lot younger average age for first born is 28. Fertility for different age groups woman are giving birth much older now. States still have a lot more younger moms. Very unlikely that children will die within first year of birth. Fertilization : moment of conception, joining of sperm and ovum zygote. Inject the sperm into the uterus once you have ovulated. Fertilized outside of the woman, put eggs and sperm together and hope for the best. Once the have met, they get inserted into you. Take the sperm and put it inside the egg. Once conceived then they will insert it inside of you. Given to help the egg and the sperm to meet. Fertility issues are directly related to stressed and anxiety. Low quality or same gender couple, or single motherhood. Were more positive to pregnancy compared to control group woman.