The Canadian singer and songwriter recorded The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on his 1976 album Summertime Dream.. The single hit No. 1 in Canada and reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States.
After conception, the fertilized egg meanders to the end of your fallopian tube and enters your uterus, searching for the uterine wall. If it successfully implants itself there, the placenta will begin to form at that very spot about a week later. By the end of the first trimester, the placenta is fully grown and weighs about 1 1/4 pounds.
There it implants and starts to grow. From implantation until the end of the eighth week of pregnancy, the baby is called an embryo. From the ninth week of pregnancy until birth, it is called a fetus. What is the placenta? The placenta is formed from some of these rapidly dividing cells. The placenta functions as a life-support system during pregnancy. Oxygen, nutrients, and hormones from the mother are transferred across the placenta to reach the baby, and waste products from the baby are transferred to the mother for removal.