Hi, guys!
After reading and answering some posts, just recently, that were related to pregnancy, I started thinking about something and have managed to confuse myself. 
I know it is possible to get pregnant *anytime* during your cycle and that your best chances are around ovulation…*but* since the egg only lives for up to 48 hours after ovulation, how *could* it be possible to get pregnant afterwards? Does that make sense? It would seem that there wouldn’t be a viable egg after that point so how is it that women can still get pregnant even the day before the start of their period if they had already experienced all of the signs of ovulation, including using prediction kits, almost 2 weeks prior?
I am not trying to conceive. I am just trying to understand it logically, I guess. It seems to me that once that egg didn’t survive, chances of pregnancy for the rest of that month should be over. I am so confused. :-S
Thanks!
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usually 7-10 days after your period started, but you can get prego. at any time really, depends on circumstances.
14 days after your last cycle and 14 days before your next cycle have sex then over the weeks it falls on
good luck
Persephone…
You are pretty close to being correct in your thinking. Here’s the deal. Once an egg is released, it only lives for 12-24 hours (not 48). If it’s not fertilized, then it disintegrates and is flushed out with your period.
You only ovulate ONCE per cycle. Don’t listen to anyone who says they ovulated twice or more in a cycle, it doesn’t happen.
Okay, so here’s what people are talking about. When they say you can get pregnant anytime in your cycle what they mean is you can OVULATE anytime in your cycle. It is true, most women have a regular pattern, BUT, nothing is etched in stone with Mother Nature as you know. Some months we may ovulate later or earlier than anticipated. And when this happens, if you are not careful, you can get pregnant unexpectedly. On the reverse, this is why having irregular periods makes it so hard to conceive for some women…because they never know for sure when they are going to ovulate.
So, it’s not that you can get pregnant anytime, it’s the you can ovulate at any time, making pregnancy possible. But once you ovulate in a cycle, that’s it. You don’t do it again until the next cycle.
Hope this helps! It was a great question.
Good luck.
You get pregnant when you ovulate, doesn’t matter what day of the cycle is, some women are not regular and ovulate later or earlier than regular woman.
If you are very interesting on conceiving and understanding all about hormones, your cycle, and when and how to improve the chances of getting pregnant I will suggest reading “Taking charge of your fertility”, I read it and I got pregnant the month I planned it. I learned A LOT from it.
When someone says you can get pregnant “anytime” in your cycle it means that a woman can ovulate at any point in her cycle, not just on the normal day 14.
Here are your odds of getting pregnant before and after ovualtion (This was taken from a pamphlet my fertility specliast gave me….O = Ovulation)
Odds of conceiving:
5 days before O =0%
4 days before O =11%
3 days before O =15%
2 days before O =20%
1 day before O =26%
Day of O = 15%
1 day after O =.09%
2 days after O =.05%
3 days after O =0%
You have a slim chance after ovulating but its very slim!
sometimez people ovulate late kind of close to their period thats y some people can get pregnant that way