most fertile during menstruation? what?

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i hope someone can clear this up for me...

after my maternity class on friday, a group of us were involved in a discussion pertaining to conception. a few girls insisted that you CANNOT conceive during menstruation.... im sure that it varies from person to person, but i believe that its very possible to conceive during menstruation...

our maternity book was not very helpful in answering our question, and ive been doing some research tonight with no definite answer...

so.... what IS the right answer??

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Specializes in Med/Surg.
after my maternity class on friday, a group of us were involved in a discussion pertaining to conception. a few girls insisted that you CANNOT conceive during menstruation.... im sure that it varies from person to person, but i believe that its very possible to conceive during menstruation...

our maternity book was not very helpful in answering our question, and ive been doing some research tonight with no definite answer...

so.... what IS the right answer??

Women have the potential to get pregnant at any time during their cycle "should" they ovulate but most fertile during mensturation, NO WAY!

Ovulation occurs 14 days prior to the next expected mensus. That is the fertile time for women.

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Specializes in ICU, SDU, OR, RR, Ortho, Hospice RN.

The whole idea I thought about menstruation was losing the endometrial lining due to NO pregnancy so how can one conceive during menstruation?

Menstruation and Ovulation are not at the same time!!

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Specializes in Med/Surg.
I thought that would be called a miscarriage?

A woman can only experience a miscarriage if the union of a sperm and an egg has taken place. No baby, no miscarriage.

Women do not ovulate during their period but eggs can live for 2 days and sperm can live for 7 days inside a woman's body. They could finally meet up during menstruation, but it's very rare.

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Specializes in ICU, SDU, OR, RR, Ortho, Hospice RN.
A woman can only experience a miscarriage if the union of a sperm and an egg has taken place. No baby, no miscarriage.

Women do not ovulate during their period but eggs can live for 2 days and sperm can live for 7 days inside a woman's body. They could finally meet up during menstruation, but it's very rare.

Wow and if you were not planning on a pregnancy rare or not it would suck eh LOL

Oh the body is an amazing thing ;)

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If you had a period lasting 5 days and had intercourse on the fifth day and ovulated before the 12th day you could possibly get pregnant. Or intercourse on the 4th day and ovulated before the 11th...

Google "north carolina pregnancy urine study". There were many instances of pregnancy occurring when ovulation happened five days after intercourse, which is why the nursing text books infuriate me with their 48 -72 hours. That is a recipe for pregnancy in my experience.

Five day sperm survival is a reasonably frequent occurrence; seven days is known; and there is a report in the literature of nine days.

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Specializes in Telemetry, Case Management.

It may be possible, but not the rule. The lining is shedding, so implantation may be hindered. I would call it a long shot.

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Specializes in med surg/telemetry.

most women ovulate 14 days after the first day of last period. i dont think its possible unless its a miracle. a sign of ovulation for me is minor ovary pain and stringy discharge.

But, i always have protected sex because CONDOMS ARE EASIER TO CHANGE THAN DIAPERS!!!!!!:chuckle

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Women can ovulate at any time in their cycle. Most women will ovulate at the same time in their cycle around day 14. Day one is the first day you start to bleed. So like others said it would be a long shot, but many babies are concieved that were long shots :) Therefore you should consider yourself fertile at any time in your cycle, bleed or no bleed. Its a matter of odds really. As I understand even if the lining of the uterus is sheding and you do ovulate at that time implantation can still take place. Again a long shot but still a shot!

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I can't begin express how many young women in nursing school knew zip, zilch, nada about how their bodies worked. My prof. said every time she teaches gyno it never ceased to amaze her. The simple stuff we should learn by 6th grade.

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Okay my thought process is going as so....

The egg is fertilized in the fallopian tube, so the shedding of the endometrial lining wouldn't be flushing out the fertilized egg until it traveled down to the uterus.

I would like to see the research on five day sperm survival.

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It may be possible, but not the rule. The lining is shedding, so implantation may be hindered. I would call it a long shot.

After conception the blast travels down the fallopian tube and then rests in the uterus. This can take 5-10 days. So if a person had sex at the end of menses then the uterine lining would be done shedding by then.

Women have the potential to get pregnant at any time during their cycle "should" they ovulate but most fertile during mensturation, .

No they can't. Women can only get pregnant on the day they ovulate, and the egg generally only lives 12-24 hours. Now, the sperms can hang around for a while (few days). But the sperms need fertile cervical mucus in order to survive for any length of time.

As for the whole "women ovulate 14 days after menses", it's just an generalization. I have ovulated as early as day 9, and if I had sex on day 5 (during menses) then it's totally possible for conception to happen. Sperm hang out in the cervical crypts until they are ready to make the journey to the egg...

As for a reference to the above, check out the book, "Taking charge of your Fertility"

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