Why can you only become pregnant after you have your period?

Question

What does your period do to your body to help you become pregnant?

Answer 1

The very short version:
Egg ripens. Egg leaves ovary. Egg travels down the fallopian tube toward uterus. If egg goes unfertilized, you get your period.

It's a cycle .. Your uterus prepares for pregnancy every month. The days when the egg travels down the fallopian tube, usually Days 12-17 or so, are when you're most likely to get pregnant. While the egg's in the tube, your estrogen level drops again and the follicles begin producing progesterone. Unsurprisingly, this is called the progesterone phase. The progesterone makes the fluid around your cervix thicken up and tells your uterus to build up the protein, sugar and blood necessary to nourish a fertilized egg. If the egg remains unfertilized, your estrogen and progesterone levels drop, and both the egg and the endometrium dissolve. And your period begins.

It's not your "period" per-say that helps you become pregnant it's just part of the cycle. But don't fool yourself people have gotten pregnant while on their periods. Also unless you are actually on your period you can think of any time between say days 6-28 as "after you have your period" which means you are always capable of getting pregnant.

Answer 2

During your period, your cycle is at a point where the egg cannot attach to the lining because it is deteriorating (that's where the solid matter and blood from you period comes from). Therefore, on that period of time, you cannot get pregnant. HOWEVER, since sperm may live in your reproductive tract for up to 5 days, it may fertilize the egg after the lining has replenished. Therefore, then, you can get pregnant.

Answer 3

a woman gets her period because she ovulates which means she lets off an egg so when she has sex the sperm will meet with the egg and blah blah blah, but if the egg does not meet with the sperm or it does not get fertizlied then she will shred the lining of her utrus or get her period, which is why you can't get pregnant if you have not had your period, your body has not ovulated, therefore there is no egg to get fertilized. any woman who gets pregnant with out having a period means that she was about to get her period anyway if she didn't have sex and get pregnant. it is impossible to have a period without ovulating and you ovulate before you get you period

Answer 4

I have read the same thing. I have read on pregnancy websites and been told by the gyno. that you can only get preg. in the 10 days after your period. Then I have also read that you can get pregnant at any time in your cycle. But it hasn't happened for me. We've done it anyother time but those designated days and I haven't gotten preggers. It makes me wonder, if there are SO MANY preg. woman out there did they did it during the time AFTER their period. My friend who sought fertility specialist after specialist was told this too. And she is preg. now.

Answer 5

you have your period to flush out unused eggs. so it's not the period that creates the ability to become pregnant, it's the production of eggs. which causes your period.

Answer 6

Yes

Answer 7

because when you have your period that blood comes out to make room for the baby.

Answer 8

Your body is not sexually mature before you begin having periods. When you go through puberty and start menstruating you are sexually mature. But please do not have sex until you are mentally as mature as your body.

Answer 9

it gets the ovaries all ready and drops and egg which is what you need to have a baby, and egg from you and sperm from the male.

Answer 10

It is just your body!