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How long after your period could you get pregnant?

3 doctors weighed in across 3 answers

Varies: Some women may ovulate as early as 5-7 days after day 1, which is the first day of menstrual flow, not spotting. Usually though a person ovulates 12-16 days prior to there menses.

Answered 1/18/2012

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Dr. Gerard Honore answered

Specializes in Fertility Medicine

It depends: Depends on many factors. Take a 28-day cycle and count from the first day of bleeding: you are 'at risk' to become pregnant as early as the 9-10th day, but more usually between the 12th to 15th. In a shorter/longer or irregular cycle, it will be different. Do you want to conceive or are you asking how to avoid pregnancy? The facts are the same but the strategy would be different!

Answered 7/5/2012

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Dr. Robert Killian answered

Specializes in General Practice

Please Clarify: One does not count fertility as the time of your period. You are fertile when you are ovulating. Ovulation is the cornerstone of your menstrual cycle and is the one absolutely necessary fact about menstruation that every female must know. Ovulation is the process of preparing the egg for impregnation and the event of the egg being released from the ovary. Sex during the five days of ovulation.

Answered 11/30/2013

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