Hi, Hendrik. So nice to meet you, and I'm glad you found EmpowHer!
Yes, you can trust the period she had that she is not pregnant. Occasionally a woman who has gotten pregnant will have a period, but it is more like light spotting than an actual period.
Here's how a woman's cycle works:
1. Day 1 - Day 1 is the day a period starts.
2. When the period ends, the uterus starts building back up again.
3. Somewhere between days 7 and 12, usually: The woman ovulates. There's an egg ready to be fertilized.
4. If the egg is fertilized, it travels to the uterus and implants there. No more periods happen after this.
5. If the egg is not fertilized, it dies (within about 24-48 hours usually) and the uterus tissue will be expelled in another period, probably about 28-30 days later. And that's Day 1 again.
Sperm lives in the woman's system for between 3 and 5 days. So even if you were to have unprotected sex on, say, day 5, that sperm could live long enough to fertilize an egg from a woman ovulating on days 7-10. That's why you have to be careful both before and after ovulation.
Here's a great EmpowHer SHARE topic that helps more with this:
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Hi, Hendrik. So nice to meet you, and I'm glad you found EmpowHer!
Yes, you can trust the period she had that she is not pregnant. Occasionally a woman who has gotten pregnant will have a period, but it is more like light spotting than an actual period.
Here's how a woman's cycle works:
1. Day 1 - Day 1 is the day a period starts.
2. When the period ends, the uterus starts building back up again.
3. Somewhere between days 7 and 12, usually: The woman ovulates. There's an egg ready to be fertilized.
4. If the egg is fertilized, it travels to the uterus and implants there. No more periods happen after this.
5. If the egg is not fertilized, it dies (within about 24-48 hours usually) and the uterus tissue will be expelled in another period, probably about 28-30 days later. And that's Day 1 again.
Sperm lives in the woman's system for between 3 and 5 days. So even if you were to have unprotected sex on, say, day 5, that sperm could live long enough to fertilize an egg from a woman ovulating on days 7-10. That's why you have to be careful both before and after ovulation.
Here's a great EmpowHer SHARE topic that helps more with this:
https://www.empowher.com/news/herarticle/2009/07/20/am-i-pregnant-ten-facts-about-sex-and-pregnancy
So you can trust that you're not pregnant this time. I'm sorry for the stress you've been through, but I"m glad you found us.
July 23, 2009 - 8:17amThis Comment
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