It is believed that it is impossible to conceive a child during menstruation. Where does the multitude of mothers come from, who claim that they got pregnant precisely because of sex on "safe days"?
Explaining why you can't get pregnant during your period is, from a theoretical point of view, pretty easy. Ideally, ovulation - the most favorable period for pregnancy - occurs in women in the middle of the menstrual cycle, i.e. approximately 2 weeks after the start of the previous period and 2 weeks before the start of the subsequent period. Male sperm usually remain active for only one week after entering a woman's vagina. It turns out that it is impossible to get pregnant during your period, but, as you know, each rule has its own exceptions. And in fact, the likelihood of pregnancy during menstruation exists. The chances of getting pregnant during menstruation increase in women who have an irregular sex life, which leads to disruption of the physiological processes of the reproductive system. The reason for the onset of pregnancy during menstruation can also be such a rare phenomenon as the maturation of two eggs. An irregular menstrual cycle and its abrupt change lead, as a rule, to a shift in the timing of ovulation. This can also lead to pregnancy during your period. Remember that you may not get pregnant on every day of your period. The first few days of menstruation are accompanied by abundant secretions, which have a very negative effect on the vital activity of the sperm entering the woman's vagina and even kill the male reproductive cells. And therefore, the probability of becoming pregnant exists only in the last days of menstruation, in which the release of an unfertilized egg should take place directly. Thus, it turns out that it is still possible to become pregnant during menstruation, or rather in their last days.
