Can I get pregnant 12 days before period?

Hashbrownsandbeans

On a 29-30 day cycle can you get pregnant 18 days after period/12 days before the next period? I have read so much conflicting information elsewhere and wondered if anyone can help. Thankyou

Tupperware_Queen

Yes....nothing is certain even in a regular cycle

Amara

Yes, you can get pregnant then. Ovulation happens about 14 days after the first day of period, given sperms can live up to five days , it is possible to get pregnant that time . Even more likely is cycles are unregular.

lilymay1

Amara wrote: »

Yes, you can get pregnant then. Ovulation happens about 14 days after the first day of period, given sperms can live up to five days , it is possible to get pregnant that time . Even more likely is cycles are unregular.

Ovulation does not always happen about 14 days after your period starts. That statistic is applicable to only a small number of women. Doctors and textbooks really need to stop spouting incorrect garbage.

OP, yes, it is more than possible than you could ovulate on CD18. That would give you a nice healthy 12 day luteal phase.

dizziblonde

Would depend on your cycle, the point in your cycle when you ovulate and everything like that - the day 14 ovulation thing is an oversimplification and based on generalisations across the population - same as the 28 day menstrual cycle thing altogether.

Unless you know otherwise about your own specific internal plumbing's workings - assume so.

claire16c

Yes it's possible because on average a woman will ovulate 10-16 days before their next period. (14 is just an average)

Amara it's not 14 days after, its 14 days before. If you have much longer cycles you won't be ovulating anywhere near day 14.

I wish they would teach this in schools!

dizziblonde

claire16c wrote: »

I wish they would teach this in schools!

Even if they did if the class was anything like ours we'd all pay no attention and be busy drawing little faces on all the pictures of sperm on any handouts.

claire16c

dizziblonde wrote: »

Even if they did if the class was anything like ours we'd all pay no attention and be busy drawing little faces on all the pictures of sperm on any handouts.

:rotfl: perhaps.

They could start teaching it at medical school though as some drs don't even get it!

Dinah93

Yes, for me that would be the exact time to get pregnant. I ovulate 11 days before AF arrives every single month, not that I'd have known that before I started trying for a baby.

fluffnutter

claire16c wrote: »

Yes it's possible because on average a woman will ovulate 10-16 days before their next period. (14 is just an average)

Amara it's not 14 days after, its 14 days before. If you have much longer cycles you won't be ovulating anywhere near day 14.

I wish they would teach this in schools!

But don't they teach you that you can get pregnant at any time during your cycle? Which is a safer thing to teach girls than to start telling them about when's most likely. Else you'd just get a whole load of girls practising the rhythm method!

Knowing when you're most fertile is helpful if you're trying to get pregnant. If you're not, then it's better to believe that no time is 'safe', IMO.