Conceiving is an act by which something or someone is given rise.
Generation of life through the union of gametes
The term is normally used when referring to one of the most important acts that takes place in living beings, specifically in females of the various species: giving life to a being within one, which all females do when they remain pregnant
For example, in the context of Biology, conceiving implies that a female is fertilized, after the effective union of a female gamete with another male, in the case of human beings, when the sperm (male gamete) fertilizes the ovum ( female gamete).
This union generates a new being that will begin as an egg or zygote and that will carry the characteristics of both parents.
Then the embryo is generated, bearing this name until it becomes a fetus and the person is finally born after nine months.
The woman's uterus, the quintessential organ of human conception
In the case of humans and other species, this conception occurs in the womb.
The uterus, for example, is the female organ par excellence in which the fetus develops while the gestation lasts, which in the case of humans is nine months, being the longest process with regard to the mammalian species .
It is a pear-shaped and muscular organ that is located in the central part of the woman's pelvis; It is flattened from front to back, and the oblique direction from bottom to back.
It is connected by the cervix to the vagina.
On its sides are the fallopian tubes that act as a connection between the uterus and the ovaries, the latter being the generators of the ovules.
The wall of the uterus is made up of three layers: an external or perimetrium, the intermediate or myometrium, which is muscular, and the internal or endometrium, which is a mucosal-type layer that when fertilization does not occur, each month will be renewed, detaches, manifesting as bleeding, the female menstrual cycle.
Conception is only possible during the fertility days of the woman, which is normally located on day 14 of each cycle.
From the legal point of view, for many laws of the world from the precise moment of conception the person begins to exist and thus it is that any attack from this time will be considered as murder.
There are other laws that only consider the child a person when it is born.
Birth of ideas, projects
However, the concept can also be used to designate in a more abstract way the conception of ideas, projects, and situations.
Effective understanding of something
In addition, it is often used to say that something is understood, for example when it is said "I conceive this situation", that is, that it is understood or understood that this situation takes place.
Whenever it is said that something is being conceived, of conceiving something or someone, it refers to the earliest stage of creation.
Thus, when an idea, project or theory is conceived, the birth of that element is being signaled from the first moment, before that idea, project or theory is eventually carried out.
In the case of the conception of a baby or a descendant, it is also implied that conception is an instance prior to the one that causes that living being to finally be born and establish itself as such in the world.
When we speak of maternal conception, that is, of the deep act of love that involves conceiving a living being in the womb, we are referring to a process that takes time and that always involves the development of the fetus towards what is considered to be being. I live fully developed to be born.
The conception, whatever the type of living being we are talking about, is never immediate and therefore implies an investment of time (which, clearly, can vary from case to case).
In the case of conceiving a child, a human being, we are talking about one of the most beautiful forms of conception that we can know since we are talking about thinking beings who in many cases choose that conception as a way of eternity and permanence to through the new being on Earth.
Human conception is one of the longest among mammals, as we have already pointed out above lines, and it always involves very special, deep and conscious care that aims to ensure the best arrival in this world for the future baby.