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Can get pregnant a few days (3days before) before my fertile days and a week before my ovulation time?

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Dr. Robert Killian answered

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Five Days: Sperm live for five days after being deposited in the vagina. Thus pregnancy occurs from sperm left in the vagina on any or all of the five days leading up to ovulation. Ovulation occurs about fourteen days before menstruation.

Answered 8/11/2014

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