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A pregnant woman wearing a face mask during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Pregnancy

In humans, pregnancy lasts about 280 days. It's the time between conception — the fertilization of an egg by sperm — and birth. In other animals, this gestation period can be as short as 12 days or as long as 22 months.

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