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

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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?

Well I've been pregnant 10 times and have 5 children

I see what he means about people being together longer not having sex so often, and I know there is research to say you are more likely to conceive with a new partner than someone you've been with a long time (The Selfish Gene).

Trillian's theory sounds most likely.

Sounds like complete BS to me. Not least because in the days before/societies without access to contraception, more than 5 kids is v common. My grandparents were all one of 8/11/12 or whatever. And one of my muslim colleagues is the middle of 13 children!

Bollocks. Every time an egg is released you have a chance of it being fertilised if you have sex before and after. My acupuncturist says have sex as much as possible around and leading up to ovulation (starting about five days before)... But not more than once a day.

I use a clear blue monitor and have got pregnant three times this last year year (I have other issues so have lost the babies). And I'm forty three tomorrow. Knickers to the stats I blow them out of the water.

In a possible five cycles I've conceived in three of them. April (was pregnant April, may, jun) july i didnt conceive , Sept (was pregnant sept oct and nov), didn't conceive December, and January (haven't tic since ).

So ner to stupid statistics.

And what's even odder is I have never conceived before that but have never ttc.

what nonsense. I've been pregnant four times since i was 35. (only one child though). All natural conceptions despite diagnosed poor ovarian reserves.