Fun Facts About Gerald Ford. 1  His middle name is Rudolph. 2  He nearly died in World War II when a typhoon hit his aircraft carrier and it caught fire. 3  Around 400 Eagle Scouts attended Ford's funeral and took part in the procession. 4  His number 48 football jersey was retired at the University of Michigan.
Then, the process of becoming pregnant takes several days â the fertilized egg (now called a blastocyst) has only just begun its long journey. Once the egg is fertilized, it now has to travel all the way up into the uterus for implantation to take place.
How does pregnancy begin? Fertilization, the union of an egg and a sperm into a single cell, is the first step in a complex series of events that leads to pregnancy. Fertilization takes place in the fallopian tube. Over the next few days, the single cell divides into multiple cells.