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[cmn]

Have a Happy Sunday Ladies, Hope we get some BFP's this week. I'll talk to you ladies on Monday.

[Medquestions]

Here is my dilema:
I had a cycle on 7/16/04(normal) and then I made love with my husband,on 8/15/04 we used a condom but it slipped off.
The next morning I started my cycle 8/17/04 (normal)
Is there any slight possibility I coudl of gotten pregnant from 8/15/04 and if so when would I be able to test. My cycles are ranging from 26-30 days.
Is there a set number of days past intercourse when a preg test would come up positive??
Please comment, I am going crazy wondering if there is a chance i might be preg.
I am not on any b/c. I have heard both sides, some say no its not possible but others have said that because your cycle is a week and it takes longer than that for the egg to plant in the uterus so there is a possibility??? I just don't know and I really didn't pay that much attention in sex ed. So in general how long does it take to be preg after intercourse, 2 weeks???
I am so stressed about this??? Any comments.

[nurse12hr]

Unlikely, but anytime you have unprotected intercourse you could become pregnant.  If you DON'T want to be pregnant and something like that (condom slipping off or breaking) happens, contact your doctor or Planned Parenthood IMMEDIATELY and get the "morning after pill" right away (though it is a misnomer-you can take them up to 72 hours after unprotected intercourse).

Pay attention--here's how your reproductive cycle works.

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Menstruation is just one part of the menstrual cycle, in which a woman's body prepares for pregnancy each month. A cycle is counted from the first day of one period to the first day of the next. An average cycle is 28 days, but anywhere from 23 to 35 days is normal.
Estrogen and progesterone levels are very low at the beginning of the cycle. During menstruation, levels of estrogen, made by the ovaries, start to rise and make the lining of the uterus grow and thicken. In the meantime, an egg (ovum) in one of the ovaries starts to mature. It is encased in a sac called the Graafian follicle, which continues to produce estrogen as the egg grows.

At about day 14 of a typical 28-day cycle, the sac bursts and the egg leaves the ovary, traveling through one of the fallopian tubes to the uterus. The release of the egg from the ovary is called ovulation. Some women know when they're ovulating, because at mid-cycle they have some pain--typically a dull ache on either side of the lower abdomen lasting a few hours. The medical word for this is mittelschmerz, from the German, meaning middle pain. Some women also have very light bleeding, or spotting, during ovulation.

After the egg is expelled, the sac--now called a corpus luteum--remains in the ovary, where it starts producing mainly progesterone. The rising levels of both estrogen and progesterone help build up the uterine lining to prepare for pregnancy.

The few days before, during and after ovulation are a woman's "fertile period"-the time when she can become pregnant. Because the length of menstrual cycles vary, many woman ovulate earlier or later than day 14. It's even possible for a woman to ovulate while she still has her period if that month's cycle is very short. (Stress and other things can sometimes cause a cycle to be shorter or longer.) If a woman has sex with a man during this time and conception occurs (his sperm fertilizes the egg), she becomes pregnant.

The fertilized egg attaches to the uterus, and the corpus luteum makes all the progesterone needed to keep it implanted and growing until a placenta (an organ connecting the fetus to the mother) develops. The placenta then makes hormones and provides nourishment from the mother to the baby.

If an egg is not fertilized that month and the woman doesn't get pregnant, the corpus luteum stops making hormones and gets reabsorbed in the ovary. Hormone levels drop again, the lining of the uterus breaks down, menstruation begins, and the cycle repeats.

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Good luck to you.

[rosehill]

Well AF came and I guess there is always next month. See you later.

[Medquestions]

So when would I be able to test if I had intercourse on 8/15/04?Would I have to wait until my next cycle? Or could I test 2 weeks from intercourse.

[shubunkin]

Well, I was sleeping well this morning then the husband and kids come in and they started screaming eggs! O how lovely! The smell sent me straight to the bathroom. Then strange enough I went in there and ate me an egg. And I have even managed to keep it down.Then I sit down and watch an episode of This Old House. It was great. They were in the bahamma's and I was slipping into paradise and then they suddenly mentioned the word bathroom and paradise was torn away! Durn it :)! Then my dh decided it was time to do a cattle roundup. Yes, we live in Louisiana so I guess we are considered hicks, but really we are not! So I was going to be nice and try to help him so I get in the truck and off I go about 40 miles an hour across bumpy pastureland chasing cows the whole time I am holding my hand over my mouth trying to hold it in. Anyway.... I tell him enough is enough to take me home and he does.....so now I am sitting here eating saltine crackers trying to keep it all down...... I hope you all have a wonderful day like I have so far...... take care! Danielle

[Benswifey]

What part of Louisiana are you from?  I am from Louisiana too.

[shubunkin]

From Ruston. It is North La. How about you?

[Benswifey]

I am from the Lafayette area.