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August 17th, 2006
Hi I am kindof new to this site. I have only written a few times, but read it alot. We have decide to try for another baby, but not until october. This is the first month off birth control and we did not use any other protection this was on aug. 14th. I am not supposed to ovulate until the 21st. I have been reading and it says that it can live for 5 days which I thought. On other sites it says 7 days does anyone know?
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Melissa_20
replied August 17th, 2006
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I heard between 4-7 days
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AmyC
replied August 17th, 2006
Thank you melissa_20! We will have to more careful from now on. Are you ttc?
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Melissa_20
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Put it this way,i'm not trying but i'm not preventing it wither,lol I wouldn't mind having one but i'm more in the mind frame of just letting it happen instead of driving myself nuts trying! Why are you waiting to ttc?
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AmyC
replied August 17th, 2006
That is so true. It is so much fun to try. I am trying to plan this one to surprise family at christmas. It is so hard to decide when to start. We got pregnant on the first try last time and I heard that it will not happen like that again. My friend has been trying for 2 years finally she gave up she was so sick of buying test. Low and behold she is now 9 weeks pregnant.
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Melissa_20
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amyc wrote:
that is so true. It is so much fun to try. I am trying to plan this one to surprise family at christmas. It is so hard to decide when to start. We got pregnant on the first try last time and I heard that it will not happen like that again. My friend has been trying for 2 years finally she gave up she was so sick of buying test. Low and behold she is now 9 weeks pregnant.
yep! Once you start not caring is when it happens! Lol it sucks that it has to be that way though.If you don't mind me asking what happened with the first pregnancy?Thats not true that it might not happen like that again.You may be one of those people who is very fertile and its easy to become pregnant! A lot of people do have a hard time though
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AmyC
replied August 18th, 2006
Melissa_20,

the first pregnancy went great I have a 2 1/2 year old little girl. I just lost all the baby weight in time to start allover again. Lol!
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Melissa_20
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amyc wrote:
melissa_20,

the first pregnancy went great I have a 2 1/2 year old little girl. I just lost all the baby weight in time to start allover again. Lol!
yay! I just recently thought I was pregnant.I stil think I am even though when I went to the doc the test came out negative.I still have some symptoms which I know are .N.O.T in my head.I kinda hope I am but if i'm not i'll be ok with it.Maybe it just wasnt my time
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AmyC
replied August 18th, 2006
Good luck to you. I hope things work out for you the way you want them too. You will have to let me know how it turns out.
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amyc wrote:
good luck to you. I hope things work out for you the way you want them too. You will have to let me know how it turns out.
definetly!
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Emma2
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Sperm survives on average 2 days , upto 5 days with optimal cervical mucus and 7 days has been reported but its very rare.
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emma2 wrote:
sperm survives on average 2 days , upto 5 days with optimal cervical mucus and 7 days has been reported but its very rare.
ok smarty pants : )
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