HOW TO KNOW WHEN YOU HAVE THE HIGHEST CHANCE OF GETTING PREGNANT AS A WOMAN (safe and unsafe periods for pregnancy)


Recently, I have noticed increased cases of complications such as continuous bleeding and pain following abortion by young ladies. This simply means that the pregnancies that are aborted are mostly unwanted. And being unwanted pregnancies, the ladies decided to get rid of them. Some ladies have died in this process while some have lost their wombs (uterus) to this ugly fate. I am sure that no lady will know how not to get pregnant and decide to be pregnant in order to undergo an abortion and the crises associated with it. I am sure it is better to prevent pregnancy than look for means to terminate it. This is why I feel it is better to explain to our female folks how to naturally run away from unwanted pregnancies except in rare cases.

It is good for a woman to understand her body very well including the period in a month when she has the highest chance of getting pregnant. The good thing here is that there is no magic to it or rocket science. You will need to follow simple rules.

Before you go deeper into this piece of article, let me disclaim that this piece of article is made majorly for those with regular(fairly constant) menstrual cycles. If you are emotionally stressed or under drugs that may change your cycle length, this may not work for you. It will work for you if you already know how to use the calendar method for your menstruation and ovulation.

As a lady who has started seeing your period, you need to know that menstruation is likely to happen every month except if you are already pregnant or breastfeeding. Menstruation comes with blood coming out from your vagina, pain, and other minor symptoms, every month. The period when the bleeding last is known as the menstrual duration -- it can be between 3 and 5 days in most cases and in a rare case up to 7 days. The period between two menstruations is called menstrual cycle length. This menstrual cycle length can be regular where it occurs within the range of 21 days to 35 days. If you are able to know your own and it is fairly constant every month, then you will benefit more from this write-up. On the other hand, some people can see theirs more than twice a month and it will intermittently go up to two months without seeing their period and it will not be because they are pregnant or breastfeeding. In this case, it is irregular. The main goal of this write-up is for those with regular cycle length to learn when to avoid unprotected sex which may lead them to get pregnant.

Also, asides from monthly menstruation, there is also a process that leads up to the release of eggs by women. This is called ovulation. It is important to know that without ovulation, there will be no pregnancy. Good enough, the time it can happen can be predicted correctly. However, predicting it correctly is possible only among those whose menstrual cycle length is fairly constant. Those who can predict their next menstruation correctly through the help of their menstrual calendar. This ovulation mostly happens in the middle of your menstrual cycle. This is to say that if you have a 28-day cycle, you may ovulate on the 14th day from the day you saw your menses first.

This egg that will be released during ovulation will only stay up to 24 hours alive. After that, it will be dead and cannot produce pregnancy. However, the sperm from men is not like the egg that can die quickly within 24 hours, the sperm can stay up to 3 to 5 days in the body of a woman. It can be there waiting for you to ovulate for it to fertilize the egg. Do you see the temptation here?

With the above said, it means that to avoid becoming pregnant, you need to give yourself some days leading up to and after the middle point of your menstrual cycle as that is the time you are likely to ovulate. If you have a 28-day cycle, you will have the 14th as the middle point. This means that you have to give yourself at least 3 days before the day 14th from the day you started seeing your menstruation and also a minimum of 3 days after the day 14th. With the above said, it means that you have to give yourself from 11th to 17th as your unsafe period with high risk for pregnancy --- period you can easily get pregnant. These are the days that you are likely to ovulate or have a sperm remain viable in your body to meet your ovulated egg. This means that from the 11th day till the 17th day, counting from the first day you saw your menstruation, you should not have unprotected sexual intercourse. If you do, you may get pregnant. The chance of getting pregnant those days is high. Other days apart from the 11th to the 17th day are your safe period. You can engage in sexual intercourse with or without protection.

Moreover, if you are not living with your partner(husband or wife) and you are not sure of their status, you may have to be careful not to contract venereal diseases like HIV, Hepatitis B, and C, Human Papillomavirus, etc. You can prevent them by using protection like condoms. This is because these ones are deadlier than just being pregnant.

RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Use the calendar to track your menstruation and ovulation
2. Monitor your body as there are signs like an increase in basal body temperature and whitish vagina discharge which tell you that you are about to ovulate.
3. Know your partner's HIV status

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