Process of ovulation-Pictures!

[betheny]

Wow. Internal nipples. Caviar. Who knew? I'm amazed the eggs are so big, and we store, what, 250 of them? Oh, duhh, it's magnified. The ovary = the size of an almond, or a grape, or so, right? Still a lot of storage. No wonder it's hard to have a flat tummy!

During my bff's fertility treatments, she kept having to go have her "follicles stimulated". Now I wonder what that meant?

Apparently this was never captured on film before. Odd, since it's darned common.

"Jacques Donnez of the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels was about to perform a partial hysterectomy on a patient and captured her ovulation on film, a process that took approximately 15 minutes. Scientists used to think it happened much more quickly."

[Freedom92]

Just think, that's a babys first picture. Cute little devil, isn't it.

Amazing stuff there Betheny.

[TiredMama]

Wow! That's amazing!

[betheny]

I'm shocked that so few have commented on this. I thought it was cool as hell. I finally realized the instrument is just a curved hemostat, which gave me some size perspective on the egg. I guess they didn't want to stick a dime in her abdominal cavity for my size-gauging convenience? Darn them LOL.

Some women can feel when this happens, the moment the egg pops out, they call it messershmit or something. Anybody? Bueller? I was just reading that the egg is only viable 24 hours after it pops out. It's amazing that conception ever happens. Luckily, spermies are persistent little suckers!

Mittelschmertz is the word I'm lookin for. Here's another dumb question...that egg seems to be releasing into space. Do they squirt right into the fallopian tube, which carries it to the uterus, or what?

I never knew this: The ovaries have no openings. The egg just bursts thru the ovarian wall! Looking at this pic, it seems to be emerging thru a nipple-looking opening, which I assumed was the follical. Not so, I guess. Wow I'm old to be learning this.

[Tiger Racing]

Originally Posted by betheny

Some women can feel when this happens, the moment the egg pops out

I've known women who could feel it when they ovulated. I'm grateful to have never even had a cramp in my life.

Those pictures are freaky.

C.

[nicci65]

I'm totally amazed... I even copied and emailed to some friends.

I feel menstrual-cramp-like pains when I ovulate, though not as severe. I can't say that I feel anything like something "popping out".

[betheny]

I think it is just a cramping, or some say tingling, sensation. Some compare it to a gas pain. I read that sometimes bleeding occurs from the bursting, which irritates the innards and causes mild pain.

Who knew all this bursting business was going on? I'm ridiculously amazed...I've been bursting for decades!

Nicci65, do you know where that egg goes next? If it doesn't burst into the fallopian tube, how the hell does it get there, and then to the uterus? What keeps them from sitting around lost?

[betheny]

Research, and ye shall find.

Once an egg has broken out of its follicle, it is released from the ovary. Using a set of finger-like projections, one of your fallopian tubes grabs hold of the egg. Once the egg has been pushed inside the tube, tiny hairs help to sweep the egg along, until it reaches the uterus.

Fallopian tubes

The fallopian tubes, or oviducts, consist of two tubes approximately 10 cm long that lead from the uterus and end in finger-like projections called fimbriae. The fimbriae ‘hover’ over the ovaries but are not attached to them.

During ovulation, the fimbriated end of the fallopian tube receives the mature ovum that is released from the ovary. The interior environment of the fallopian tube is biochemically complex. The ovum remains in the fallopian tube for a few days. Fertilisation normally takes place at the distal end of the fallopian tube, as can be seen in the figure.


If fertilisation occurs, the resulting embryo is held in the fallopian tube until it has developed into a small cell mass (blastocyst). It is then propelled through the fallopian tube by a combination of rhythmic contractions of the muscular walls of the tube (similar to the peristaltic muscular contractions of the gut), and the action of tiny hair-like projections called cilia. The embryo is swept toward the uterus where pregnancy may be established via implantation.

[lynnifer]

And to imagine some women have excrutiating pain when this happens and the darn thing is only millimetre(s) big!

Count me in that crowd ...

[agnes]

These pictures are amazing!! Ovulation is so cool!!