A 32-year-old female asked:
Can u get pregnant a week before your period?
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Dr. Liza Kunzanswered
Maternal-Fetal Medicine 23 years experience
Yes: Use contraception if you don't want to get pregnant.
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A 21-year-old female asked:
Can u get pregnant right after your period?
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Dr. Wendy Askewanswered
26 years experience
No: If your periods are regular, monthly, then not usually. You are not usually ovulating right after the period ends, so not the right timing for conception to occur. Irregular periods make it difficult or impossible to know when ovulation is occurring.
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United Kingdom (Great Britain)
A 27-year-old female asked:
Can u get pregnant if u don't have a period each month?
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Dr. David Sneidanswered
Endocrinology 43 years experience
Definitely: Yes, if you have unprotected sex with a fertile male you can definitely become pregnant. In fact. It's overwhelmingly the most common cause.
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A 44-year-old member asked:
Can u get pregnant three weeks before your period?
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Dr. Dennis Higginbothamanswered
American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology 32 years experience
Unlikely: Conception takes place within 24 hours of ovulation. Ovulation takes place 14 days before the menstrual period starts. You would not ovulate 21 days before your period - so you could not conceive then. You could have sex, then 6 days later ovulate and have about a 3 in 1000 chance of conceiving - that would result in conception occurring 14 days before the period due to sex 20 days before it.
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North Wilkesboro, NC
A 21-year-old female asked:
Can u get pergnant on your period.?
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Dr. Gurmukh Singhanswered
Pathology 51 years experience
Yes: Intercourse on any day of the period can result in pregnancy.
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NC
A 26-year-old member asked:
Can u get pregnant two weeks and 6days Before your period?
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Dr. John cuong Doananswered
Family Medicine 20 years experience
Yes that's when: most women tend to ovulate, between day 10 and day 20 of the cycle (with day 24-26 as the start of your period).
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