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37 years
Dear Doctor, I will be getting married next month. I need your advice please : Which day will be suitable to have directly pregnancy after marriage ? Thanks
Jul 11, 2014

Dr. Rania Mousa General Medicine
Timing is everything. Sperm can live for two to three days, but the egg is around for only 12 to 24 hours. To increase the likelihood of conception, it's important to have intercourse more than once around the time of ovulation. A good approach is to have sex one to two days before ovulation and again on the day you ovulate. That way, there's more likely to be a healthy supply of sperm waiting in the fallopian tube when an egg is released.
Of course, exactly when a woman ovulates isn't altogether clear. It all depends on the length of her menstrual cycle. A woman typically ovulates about 14 days before her next period - not mid-cycle, as is commonly held. If she have a 28-day cycle, which is the average, then she would ovulate halfway through her cycle. But if she has a 35-day cycle, she would ovulate around day 21, not day 17.
In general to increase chances of pregnancy ,having sex every other day produced nearly as good a pregnancy rate with a focus on the fertile day in a woman too.
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