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Anyone got pregnant when they've had oral sex around ovulation time (and normal sex too, obviously)?

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2up2down · 29/09/2012 16:06

I heard that saliva has a bad effect on sperm and after reading the article below I can't quite work out why doctors don't advise couples of this when they are trying to conceive!

( humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/13/12/3351.full.pdf+html )

In summary, saliva decreases sperm motility to nearly 0 within 15 minutes of contact, and has numerous other negative consequences. Saliva is in fact worse than KY Jelly, which I knew already was bad.

I was wondering if anyone on here has managed to get pregnant when they have had any hint of saliva near sperm? Anything to enhance SWI I thought would be a good thing - but it appears not!

From this article, the chances appear to be close to 0 so I was just thinking if couples (like me and DP) are having problems, why are clinicians not checking routinely if they have oral sex? I'm also wondering why this isn't in the NICE guidelines about infertility. It would never have crossed my mind that saliva could stop you from getting pregnant.

Any thoughts gratefully received Smile.

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Isaidno · 29/09/2012 16:10

Well, I can't remember specific events Wink but dh and I have oral sex most times before going onto normal sex and we have 3 children.

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flyingpigsandsheep · 29/09/2012 17:56

That's good to know - anyone else had success?

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eurochick · 29/09/2012 19:15

I only learned about this from the interweb. We generally avoid oral around ov time. But it hasn't made any difference for us.

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crazyhead · 29/09/2012 21:10

We pretty much always have oral sex alongside other sex and I was lucky enough to get pregnant very quickly with our son. Thinking about the positioning, surely the sperm generally gets deposited further up well beyond the saliva anyway? You'd have to have an awfully long tongue, surely? Or am I getting the wrong idea somehow?

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kNickerbockerGloryCherry · 29/09/2012 21:34

That's my theory too, crazyhead.

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BeadyEyes · 30/09/2012 19:46

I have also head that it should be avoided...also that the woman should come after the man!

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blueshoes · 30/09/2012 20:22

'head', Beady? Surely you mean 'heard' Grin

Agree with crazy - Long tongue indeed!

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BeadyEyes · 01/10/2012 10:10

heheheh! Oops - slip of the tongue...

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