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Can you only get pregnant when you are ovulating?

21 doctors weighed in across 13 answers

Yes: You have to release an egg in order to get pregnant. Following ovulation , the egg is capable of being fertilized for 12-24 hours. And appx 5-6 days after fertilization, implantation into the uterus occurs.

Answered 8/7/2013

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Dr. Philip Chenette answered

Specializes in Fertility Medicine

Only with science: Naturally, no, you cannot get a healthy pregnancy without releasing an egg from you ovary (ovulation). It is possible to get pregnant with an egg donor, or using your own frozen eggs or embryos without ovulating.

Answered 5/19/2015

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Dr. Gerard Honore answered

Specializes in Fertility Medicine

With treatment: If you do not ovulate at all, not without treatment. With medication and monitoring most anovulatory women can conceive. Most women with infrequent ovulation (oligo-ovulation) can also conceive.

Answered 12/24/2014

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Yes and no: You have to be ovulating in order to get pregnant. But, you can have sex before the day of ovulation that could lead to pregnancy. The best time to conceive is to have intercourse the day of ovulation but sperm can live in good cervical mucus for 3-5 days. So, if you have unprotected intercourse on saturday sperm could survive until ovulation on tuesday.

Answered 6/28/2013

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High: The chance of getting pregnant during any particular ovulation is around 40%, assuming ideal conditions. That decreases as you get older.

Answered 6/10/2013

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Dr. Robert Killian answered

Specializes in General Practice

How to get pregnant: Ovulation is the key to fertility. It is the readying of an egg for impregnation. If one is not ovulating one is infertile.

Answered 12/18/2013

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No: You cannot become pregnant without ovulation.

Answered 12/18/2013

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Possibly: Sperm can survive 24 to 72 hours in optimal cervical mucus. If sperm is deposited within the vaginal canal prior to ovulation, pregnancy can still occur within 72 hours.

Answered 8/14/2016

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Unlikely: No. You can only get pregnant when sperm touches an ovulated egg. Sperm can live for a few days in a uterus so as long as you are not having unprotected sex a few days before or after you ovulate, it is unlikely to get pregnant.

Answered 5/14/2014

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Pregnancy timimg: Technically if you are not ovulating you will not get pregnant, but in someone who is having cyclical ovulation's, it can be hard to figure out the timing of when the egg is released into the uterus.

Answered 12/28/2017

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Yes: You had to have ovulated so there is an egg tone fertilized.

Answered 2/9/2015

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Within days of ;yes: However;how do you know for sure if or when. Young females may not ovulate every month and there are ovulation prediction methods. However, I wouldn't assume if your "prediction" is not, that you can have unprotected sex and not worry about it. Women have at some point become pregnant on any day of the cycle, and no unprotected sex is considered free of risk.

Answered 2/9/2015

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Ovulation required: In order to conceive, a woman needs to ovulate, i.e, have at least one of the eggs present in her ovaries mature and at the time of ovulation released from the ovary and swept up by the fallopian tube to facilitate conception.

Answered 3/9/2015

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