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Ovulation

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Amyy44 · 13/10/2020 14:50

TTC is it best to have sex in the days before ovulation or after? I've read before is best and also after is best 🥴 I had a positive ovulation test yesterday and we'd done it the day before...

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Somethingsnappy · 13/10/2020 16:17

Your egg can only survive for 24 hours after ovulation, so you'd need to have sex within this time frame after it was released. However sperm can survive for a good few days, so if you had sex a couple (or more) of days before ovulating, this 'window' could be successful too. I think the advice is to have sex every couple of days over your fertile period. Good luck!

Somethingsnappy · 13/10/2020 16:19

P.s. that should have said 12 to 24 hours

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