just wondering...how likely is it to have conceived a week before my period was due?

Question

This'd be my second pregnancy, if indeed I am pregnant. My period is late, and I'm leaking colostrum *tmi I know*... I just want an answer from anyone who may have any information.

I had a little one in January, miscarried him at 5 months and had to go through labor. Even with him though, the first sign of pregnancy I had was the whole "leaking boobs" thing, my period was late also...just like now. I just didnt think I could've gotten pregnant a week before my period was due. *shrugging shoulders* Ok, so I had sex during *gross I know* and the day after my last period...then again at about 2wks after *protected though and no orgasms for him*, and then this past time right before my period. Which time would be most likely to have resulted in a pregnancy? Any answers on that one? lol You all respond FAST!! lol

Answer 1

It is *physically* impossible to get pregnant a week before your period. It *is* possible, however, to get pregnant a week before you *think* your period is due. This is because you may have had some stress (at least 2 weeks earlier) that delayed ovulation, which *would have* delayed your period had you not gotten pregnant.

A woman ovulates about 2 weeks before her next period. Sperm can live up to 3-5 days in the female body, but an egg only lives for 6-12 hours (up to 24 occasionally). So by the time you're a week before your period *actually* would have been (not *expected*), the egg is long dead. Even if by some strange chance you *did* ovulate late in the cycle, it takes at least about a week for the fertilized egg to arrive in the uterus and start implanting. By the time the egg would have made it there, your period would have either started or the hormones would have been all set to make it start so it would still have been irreversible. (This is true if ovulation is less than *10* days before your next period.)

If you only had sex 3 weeks before your period was due and 1 week before it was due, you probably got pregnant a week before, because *neither* is possible if your period would have been when you expected it, and longer-than-usual cycles are more likely than shorter-than-usual ones.

Please read _Taking Charge of Your Fertility_ by Toni Weschler for detailed explanations of all of the above.

Answer 2

The Day 14 Myth

Well-timed intercourse is a much more targeted approach to trying to conceive than just waiting until 14 days after you start your period, having sex and hoping for the best.

"The whole concept of day 14 is a myth that has been entrenched in our culture," says Weschler. "Because a 28-day cycle is the average, it's assumed that since women get their period around 14 days after ovulation, they must ovulate on day 14, as well. The fact is that some may ovulate day 10 and some on day 30."

Weschler says that the only way to reliably identify when ovulation occurs is by tracking the primary fertility signs. The two primary fertility signs are waking temperature and cervical fluid. All ovulating women experience these signs all of the time.

The waking temperature is also called the basal body temperature (BBT) and is taken immediately upon awakening – before getting up to go to the bathroom or drinking any beverages. Although the BBT can tell you that you did ovulate and can, to a certain extent, predict a pattern of ovulation, it cannot tell you when you ARE going to ovulate, which is the most important piece of information for anyone who is trying to conceive.

This is why the consistency of the cervical mucus is important. As a woman approaches ovulation, her cervical fluid gets wetter until it reaches its optimum consistency, which is very slippery and stretchy.

These cervical mucus changes take place over a timeframe that is not necessarily a 14-day cycle. When a woman's period ends, her cervical fluid is generally dry or sticky. As she approaches ovulation, whether that is at 10 days or 20 days, the cervical fluid gradually begins to get wetter until it becomes rather sticky and then creamy. This occurs just before it develops into a consistency resembling raw egg white, slippery and stretchy, which is the signal of the most fertile time in the cycle.

The day a woman is most fertile is not necessarily the time when she has the most cervical fluid. The day when the cervical mucus reaches this slippery consistency is the most fertile day of the month.

However, says Weschler, don't wait until that exact day to have intercourse. Start having intercourse every day when your cervical mucus starts to become slippery and continue until your BBT rises, which signals that ovulation has already occurred.

"Say you have an egg white consistency on Monday and Tuesday," says Weschler. "If you still have egg white on Wednesday, you know you still haven't ovulated. The concept is that you continue to have intercourse until your temperature rises, so you're sure you've had intercourse on the last day of your most fertile cycle."


How long ago was your previous pregnancy? You should not leak colostrum until later in your pregnancy.

Good luck!

Answer 3

In the vast majority of cases, ovulation is 14 days before your period. Wait until 2 weeks after having unprotected sex. If you still haven't gotten your period, you could be pregnant.

Answer 4

the week before your period is the time your hormones are raging, all of them, so you could me. Go buy a 'First Response' pregnancy test, they can tell you as little as two weeks into the pregnancy.

Answer 5

When I ask a doctor it was a 80% chance of getting pregnant when you have unprotected sex before your period.

Answer 6

its fine thats how i got preeg now im 2 mon