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dcutaia · Dec 6, 2007, 02:57 PM

Hello,

I need information on the time of the month when women are least likely to become pregnant. I thought it was during her menstro period but it might not be right.

Thanks,

DAC

uhhleesha · Dec 6, 2007, 03:05 PM

Depends on how long her cycle is, how old she is, how long sperm can live in this said female, how long the egg last, and a few other things that I can't think of.

By the book: 14 days before the period is when a female is most fertile. Generally sperm can live inside a female's vagina for about five days.

Try googling "fertility map" and see what you come up with.

Synnen · Dec 6, 2007, 07:10 PM

If you're thinking of using this as your sole method of birth control, there's a special name for people that do that:

They call them "parents"

J_9 · Dec 6, 2007, 07:23 PM

Have you not had your vasectomy yet?

What you are describing is called the Natural Family Planning method.

dcutaia · Dec 7, 2007, 06:24 AM

I'm not having a vasectomy. I am a chicken when it comes to pain. A good analogy would be during world war 2 if I was captured by the enemy I don't image they would have to toreture me too much for information.

DAC

Choux · Dec 7, 2007, 11:46 AM

Your question reminds me of the "bad ole days" before birth control that is 100% effective. We women had to figure out all this math until the Pill was invented and distributed... Even then, worrrrrry.

You can't trust your partner... remember that. So many women have hiden agendas.

Synnen · Dec 8, 2007, 07:43 AM

Frankly, sir--a vasectomy is NOTHING compared to childbirth.

Were I your wife, I'd withhold sex.

You refuse to take any responsibility for prevention of a pregnancy, so---HER option is then to tell you to use your own hand. I think she's justified in that.

Fr_Chuck · Dec 8, 2007, 09:30 AM

There is no real true safe time, if you do not want to have children you don't have sex, and/or you use at least two forms of birth control. No one form is 100 percent effective.

s_cianci · Dec 8, 2007, 09:33 AM

Generally as long as it's not within 24 hours of ovulating. Of course, it's difficult to know exactly when ovulation takes place and a woman's cycle isn't always totally consistent from month to month so it's really hard to pinpoint exactly when the "safe" times are. If a pregnancy is unwanted then birth control is in order at all times.

J_9 · Dec 8, 2007, 10:52 AM

Originally Posted by Synnen

Frankly, sir--a vasectomy is NOTHING compared to childbirth.

Were I your wife, I'd withhold sex.

You refuse to take any responsibility for prevention of a pregnancy, so---HER option is then to tell you to use your own hand. I think she's justified in that.

Oh, read his other posts!! :eek: Amazing men act like this.

J_9 · Dec 8, 2007, 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by s_cianci

Generally as long as it's not within 24 hours of ovulating.

Not to mention that sperm live inside a woman's body for 3 - 5 days.

ampersandra · Dec 8, 2007, 12:37 PM

This depends on how long her cycle lasts. If it's 28 days, you should be safer (SAFER, not safe) about 10 and onwards before the 1st day of her period. Your best bet is to have your partner take her basal body temperature every morning immediately after she wakes up. If she experiences a dramatic dip in temperature sometime in the middle of her cycle (the cycle begins on the 1st day of her period), that day and the days after that time until her period are safer. This is a very simplified description though and I recommend having her taking her temperature for a few months before you actually use it to predict when she's ovulating.