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About five chances to get pregnant over your life - really?!

30 replies

StrandTest · 12/04/2011 12:56

My GP told me today that there has been recent research that says that women only have about five chances to get pregnant in their whole lives. When I questioned this, he said it was to do with timings of ovulation/having sex and said something like 'when couples have been together a long time, they don't have sex very often' so the chances of it being at the right time are minimal'.

Really? Five chances of timing it right in your whole life?? Surely if you are trying to concieve, you'd have sex more often and try to do it mid cycle? And that's before OPKs and temperature charting, etc.

Does anyone have any idea which study he was referring to? That CAN'T be right, can it?

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juneau · 12/04/2011 12:59

What a load of b*llocks!

MmeSurvivedLent · 12/04/2011 12:59

Sounds like bollocks to me.

I have been pregnant 5x so I can just stop using contraception now, can I?

suzikettles · 12/04/2011 12:59

It does certainly sound like a load of bollocks.

FruitShootsChocolateThieves · 12/04/2011 12:58

That can't be right...how would anyone have more than 5 children?

iskra · 12/04/2011 12:58

Sounds bizarre to me.

So I have 2 more chances at the age of 27 Hmm