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post #1 of 17
1/14/06 at 12:04pm
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inside of a woman? I have heard so many days for girls and so many days for boys...does anyone know?
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post #2 of 17
1/14/06 at 12:18pm
My doctor told me up to 2 days...
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post #3 of 17
1/14/06 at 12:25pm
Thats what I have heard too - 48 hours
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post #4 of 17
1/14/06 at 12:39pm
actually sperm can live up to a week but the most viable sperm can live 48hour-72hours.
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post #5 of 17
1/14/06 at 1:52pm
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So if you had every other day...eventually you would get ...wouldn't you???
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post #6 of 17
1/14/06 at 1:58pm
In theory I would say Yes as long as there aren't underlying issues.
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post #7 of 17
1/14/06 at 2:10pm
i was going to say the same as Karen, in theory yes
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post #8 of 17
1/14/06 at 3:01pm
In theory,yes. However, women ovulate at different times than the standard. So you could hit your so called target week and completely miss O.
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post #9 of 17
1/14/06 at 3:08pm
Yeah sperm can live up to 7 days.
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post #10 of 17
1/14/06 at 5:44pm
If you are unsure of when you ovulate having every other day really is the best bet since it covers as many days as possible. It probably wouldn't happen right away though.
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post #11 of 17
1/14/06 at 9:19pm
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Thank you all
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post #12 of 17
9/6/06 at 12:49pm
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Originally Posted by libbym26
inside of a woman? I have heard so many days for girls and so many days for boys...does anyone know?

hmmmm interesting question. No one answered the actual question though.

"Girl" sperm supposedly "live longer, then boy sperm inside. So I have read. Boy sperm are faster though.
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post #13 of 17
9/6/06 at 2:12pm
I've heard that about girl sperm as well. Then again some men produce more of one gender than the other. For example in fields where men might be exposed to low levels of radiation regularly, I understand they are more likely to have girls than boys. Since I worked in a field like that for 6 years, I can tell you that is true. The men in my shop did have disproporionately more girls, although, a few of the men did have sons.
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post #14 of 17
9/6/06 at 3:10pm
Well, that may explain why this baby is a girl! I still can't figure out how I got pregnant this time. (Well, I know how ) It was just perplexing because I'm pretty sure I know when I ovulated and there was no around that time. DH just thinks I must be clueless or that I ovulate more than once or something.
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post #15 of 17
9/6/06 at 11:00pm
Oh and then there is the issue about briefs versus boxers. The temperature of the testicles or something.
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post #16 of 17
9/7/06 at 12:06am
See our doctors and some reading I did said the boxer/brief thing only matters in men that have problems already but for most healthy guys it's not enough of a difference to matter
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post #17 of 17
11/15/06 at 6:46pm

Not really related to thread....

I am new here and I was wondering how you get all those pics or charts of how far along you are or how old your children are. Im just curious since I might be here for a while.
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