I think my gf might be pregnant. Please help.

Andrew2006 wrote:

The last time she had her period was at the end/early part of this month. Yes, the 8th day was when that happened.

Chai is right. We ovulate about 14 days after our last period began. We can only get pregnant during the 3 days right around ovulation. I would bet $1000 your girlfriend is NOT pregnant.

Wandering Ovulation
by Josa Young

We are taught that ovulation occurs fourteen days before our period begins, regardless of cycle length. New research from the US challenges this assumption.

The gospel according to the infertility industry is that we ovulate 14 days before our period begins - irrespective of the length of cycle. Not so, says Alan J Wilcox, MD, head researcher at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in Durham, North Carolina.

When we are looking for our fertile period - either while practising natural family planning or trying to conceive - we base our calculations on six days bang in the middle of our period. The study, which appeared in the British Medical Journal, found astonishingly, that some women are potentially fertile on every day of the menstrual cycle.

When we are young the standard advice is, never take a risk on any day - including during our periods. This is a kind of catch-all to prevent youthful mistakes. As we grow older, we are told there is a 'safe' period for unprotected sex. Now it seems the more cautious advice is actually more accurate.

The 213 women in the study produced 30,000 urine samples and provided diaries of when and how often they had sex. The results, not unnaturally, took several years to analyse. Earliest ovulation in the study occurred on Day 8 (if Day 1 is the first day of bleeding) the latest on Day 60. There are many other variables at work in achieving a pregnancy, such as viability of sperm and receptivity of the uterus.

Wilcox concludes that the best way to get pregnant is to let nature take its course: 'Most couples will be pregnant within three to four cycles' he says. But he is at pains to point out that women with regular cycles who rely solely on the rhythm method may be in for an unexpected surprise.

I thought it was 14 days BEFORE you next period begins....because once you ovulate, the lining of the uterus starts to thicken and grow, and after 14 days it starts to slough off.....

Don't forget that sperm can live in the female reproductive tract for up to 7 days. (inoformation to carry with you andrew) So if she ovulated within 7 days after you had sex, and by some crazy twist of fate some sperm did get into her, she could be pregnant.

But I'm with the others in saying I doubt she is.

Chai: I am sorry if I have offended you but the reason for my saying that is because the advice given is that of a higher level thinking than that of the normal teen/young adult. Even though much of us try to spew "mature" or "higher level" thinking that is all we are doin....spewing....we do not live our..."ideals"....if you will....therefore if you speak with the knowledge of experience then you will be seen as no other than an adult because you went through it and are informing others of facts...not just spewing