I HEARD THAT IF YOU ONLY HAVE SEX DURING YOUR PERIOD, YOU WON’T GET PREGNANT; IS THIS TRUE?

No, this isn’t true. Females can and do become pregnant from having sex while they’re having their menstrual period. A female whose period lasts for longer than seven days is more likely to get pregnant from having sex during her period. But, even a female whose period lasts seven days or less could get pregnant from having sex during this time.

Here’s an example of how this might work. Say Mary starts her period on 3 June. She bleeds for seven days, until 9 June. She has sex on 8 June, while she’s still bleeding. Her next period starts on 24 June. Altogether, twenty-one days have elapsed between the first day of bleeding of her period on 3 June and the first day of bleeding for her next period on 24 June. By counting back twelve to sixteen days from 24 June, we can figure that she probably ovulated between 8 and 12 June. Mary was still bleeding on the 8th; she may have ovulated on the 8th; she had sex on the 8th. So, there’s a good chance she’d get pregnant even though she was having her period.

Even if Mary didn’t ovulate until the 9th or 10th, she still might get pregnant because the sperm can stay alive for at least three days. And if the experts who say sperm can stay alive for five days are right, she might have got pregnant from having sex on the 8th even if she didn’t ovulate until the 12th.

Or, to take another example, let’s say Susan has a period on 1 August. She bleeds for seven days, until 7 August. She has sex on the seventh day, on 7 August, while she’s still bleeding. Her next period starts on 28 August, which would mean she’d had a twenty-seven-day cycle. So she may have ovulated as early as 12 August. She stopped bleeding on 7 August. But if the experts who say that sperm can stay alive for five days are right, there might still be some live sperm in her body from the time she had sex on 7 August. Therefore, when Susan ovulated on 12 August, she could become pregnant from having had sex on the 7th while she was still bleeding.

It is, then, possible for a female to get pregnant from having sex during her menstrual period.

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