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I need to know who is the father???

My period was Oct 4th - Oct 8th --had sex with an ex during a break up on the 12th and then with my boyfriend on the 24th when we got back together...which one is more a probability of being the father?
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134578 tn?1716963197
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I don't think period tracker apps are very useful, unless someone has been able to track their cycles for 12 months and has found they are on the dot at (whatever number of) days each and every time.  When I was a teenager my cycles were so exact that bar-charting them on grid paper looked like a solid block, but by the time I was 30 they varied slightly (a day or two or three).  Your cycles being "pretty" regular is not the same as exact, and your app is only as good as your cycles.  An app cannot predict if your ovulation will vary by a day or two some month.

Similarly, someone saying casually that you're "at 5 weeks" does not mean the same thing as 5 weeks 4 days or 5 weeks 6 days.  (Or even 5 weeks 0 days.)  They weren't being precise, and you need precision.

I would go in to an ob-gyn where they will take you seriously (not an ER, not a right-to-life place that gives free ultrasounds to convince women not to get abortions -- you need a real doctor's office) and get another ultrasound, either this week or the week after but no later.  It is possible that with your long-ish cycles, your boyfriend is the dad.  If you're at about 7 weeks when you go in, the ultrasound should still be useful for seeing this.  Tell them your cycles are too irregular to count on, and ask them how many weeks GA you are (that is the count from the first day of your last period, but in your case they will give you the count from two weeks previous to when you conceived) and especially ask them when your estimated due date is.  Put that due date into a conception calculator when you get home.  Since the two guys are pretty far apart, if your ultrasound isn't later than your seventh week, you should be able to get a pretty clear idea which sex produced the baby.
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134578 tn?1716963197
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So, you are saying that you got a positive test on the 1st of November?  It's possible to get a positive that early if you had really concentrated urine, though most tests don't recommend they be used that early.  (There are little charts on the back of most early-results pregnancy tests that show the possibility of getting an accurate result at a certain number of days since ovulation.  Obviously the odds of getting a readable result increase the more days have gone by. )  The Dollar Store type pregnancy tests are surprisingly sensitive.
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I will keep you posted :) Also...Random question... Is it possible for a dollar store pregnancy test to turn positive 8 days after intercourse?
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134578 tn?1716963197
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Write back.  I'm hoping the second ultrasound clearly points to one guy or the other.
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Thank you, :)
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Plus I have been using the period tracker app for the past 3 months and it predicted my ovulation on the 22nd of Oct...just not sure how accurate the app is??
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