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When did she ovulate?

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When did she ovulate?

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Ovulation is generally somewhere around day 14 of a 28-day cycle, as I recall. However, many women ovulate irregularly and she likely does if her period is irregular. Also, as murrey noted, sperm can live for days; and as others mentioned, you really don’t know when someone is at peak fertility. There’s a lot at play there. One of the benefits of birth control is well-regulated periods (in most women). That she has irregular periods should have been your first clue that she may not be on the pill. That she tracks her cycle on a web site is also a flag. Perhaps she cannot take the pill – there are some health risks when associated with other factors in some women. Perhaps she just wanted to make you comfortable with having unprotected sex. I would recommend, though, that she visit her OB/GYN. Not just for a pregnancy test, but for an overall checkup; and you might consider it as well if you both don’t have documentation of a clean bill of health prior to engaging in unprotected sex. Unp

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I think the best you can do is that you probably didn’t have sex during the optimal time for her to get pregnant, but that doesn’t mean she couldn’t have. Less likely to be pregnant than if you’d done it closer to when she probably ovulated, more likely to be pregnant than if you’d been using an actual mode of birth control. Home pregnancy tests won’t be as accurate today as they will be later, but they’ll certainly be more accurate than assessing odds based on dates and periods. The EPT website says that about 30% of pregnant women will get a negative test this early. (Keep in mind that’s not the same as a negative test having a 30% chance of being wrong. Those odds are presumably much lower. But even if they were that high, those are better odds than the non-odds you’d be able to get from the calendar).

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Ugh. I am trying to ignore the lie about being on the pill and actually answer your question. So I’ll start with agreeing with Inspector Gadget and adding that her behavior is completely unacceptable. And you may want to get a complete STD screen since she has been untrustworthy so far. There, I said it — Okay, to your question. I have read everywhere that there is no true safe time to completely avoid pregnancy. So having sex during a period, while more unlikely to cause pregnancy, is not a valid form of birth control. Moreover, sperm can live in a woman’s body for several days and “hang out” waiting for an egg. I wish there was a definitive answer but if you are completely freaked out, you can take a home pregnancy test up to 4 days before a period is supposed to start. “First Response” home tests claim to be able to test this early and are known to be accurate. I would not count out pregnancy if it is negative today or tomorrow, but it may offer some minor peace of mind. They come

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Counting days alone absolutely DOESN’T WORK because every woman’s body is different, and each individual woman’s cycle can vary from month to month. If you want to practice birth control based on ovulation prediction, I strongly recommend reading Taking Charge of Your Fertility (website here: http://www.tcoyf.com/) which describes in detail the actual physical signs of ovulation, and how to use those to determine fertile times quite accurately. (Of course, that being said, you’d have to rely on your partner for precision and honesty in tracking these symptoms…) As for the timing you describe, if I’m understanding correctly it sounds like you had sex every day for the first 7 or so days of her cycle (day one always being the first day of the actual period, and I’m assuming about a 5 day period.) Some women do ovulate as early as day 7, however on average it’s more like day 10-14 or so.

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My understanding of how birth control works (as a woman who’s been on it for ten years) is that ovulation doesn’t happen when you’re on it–so nthing that tracking her cycle on a website should have been your first clue that she was lying. Hie thee to a Costco and buy pregnancy tests in bulk–if you stay with this girl, you’re going to need them.

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