Not telling any of you who I am because of TMI factor!
Have been TTC. My cycle is very irregular but even when not actively monitoring, I can tell when ovulation is happening because of EWCM and sometimes feeling the ovary ping.
After frantically TTC for the past few months by DTD like rabbits around the fertility window with no luck, I decided to stop monitoring and stressing out, and just relax and just accept it might take a few months longer.
But we were so tired and unwell and busy that we relaxed a bit too much by not relaxing enough with each other and only managed to DTD once in the whole month (see, told you TMI!)
Had signs of ovulation that led me to suspect I'd ovulated 6 days later and thought 'oh well, missed opportunity that month, must try harder next month'
But it turns out that my man's super sperm managed to fertilise my ovum a whole 5 1/2 days after DTD.
I did wonder whether I'd got it wrong and ovulated a week earlier than I'd thought. But because of a thankfully unfounded scare and some medical history, I managed to blag an early scan and age of embryo means it must be super sperm.
I was a bit surprised as until then I'd read that sperm only survived a couple of days max inside a woman, but have since read that it can be much longer if optimal cervical conditons.
But I'm a little jittery because I have heard anecdotes that people who accidentally conceive using natural family planning have more 'stale' and poorer quality gametes coming into play, so are more likely to have chromosomal problems or miscarry. (Obv. we'll just wait and see, and I'm of the won't judge someone for having a termination but hope I wouldn't do it myself, though would like knowledge so as to be prepared, school of thought)
Does anyone know anything about this?
And the other reason for this post is, just sharing my shock at getting preggers with a single DTD + long-lived super sperm after no luck with bunny-like activity!