Hey everyone! I was reading a few posts and this topic has come up multiple times, but with surprisingly irregular responses. I was interested and wondered if it is true? Is it even possible?

After searching forever , I finally found a credible source that can put this issue to rest. (At least for me, lol.)

There was a recent study (2005) done by the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences that concluded that a women can conceive at virtually (deceiving word I know) any time during their cycles.

This is why....

According to traditional thinking, it is thought that women ovulate after 14 days. Days 10 - 17 being there most fertile times. When in fact only approximately 30% of women fall into this structured 28 day cycle.

* At this point they made a note that stated that sperm can survive in the cervix for up to a week (although as long as 10 days has been documented) and the egg is viable for 28 to 48 hour after ovulation.

Teens, and women bridging on menopause, in most cases have irregular periods, meaning that ovulation is irregular as well. Which i took to mean that the odds of conceiving from having sex on their period in these age groups is slightly higher.

Surprisingly, of the 213 women in the test group, most were between the ages of 25 and 35 when there cycles are supposedly regular.

They found that some women were becoming fertile only 4 days after menstruating. They also found that 17% of these women have ovulated by day 7 (*Remember that sperm can stay alive for up to 7 days)

So there you go ! even in a test group of primarily "regular" adults, 17% had the potential to become pregnant from sex during their period. And, although it's very rare - it's not impossibly rare. This means that of the 213 test subjects... 31 women had that small biological potential for conceiving from sex during menstruation!

What do you think?