Answered by soontoB5 - Nov. 29, 2012 4:14pm
It would really help if she knew for sure...was she charting etc? I know for a fact when I got pregnant it was on my ovulation day...but my scans say baby is about a week or more bigger than it should be...I know though I didnt conceive sooner because I didnt have sex around that time at all. Have you tried using a ovulation calculator and calculating dates etc? There is a good one on justmommies.com go to the pregnancy bar and scroll down and you will see it...it is usually pretty accurate...20th or 21st does sound right on target though with when ovulation took place if she has a regular cycle which would in fact make you the father. Do her periods normally come at about every 28 days? If so that would be right...
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Answered by a member - Nov. 29, 2012 3:55pm
Thanks for ur reply..and yes ovulation is critical part but there's no way of knowing when this was for sure and when I first asked her it was 4 days after..I trust her but given her senrio and how close together the dates are its a closer call than she thinks in my opinion as she could have ovulated 2 days later than she thinks or twice for all I know. It's a nightmare seniroo for both of us and raising the money right now for a paternity test is difficult. Could this scan shed more light on who it could be, is there a special accurate way of telling how old the baby is to a max of 2 days with a high perctage it would be close to definite and would I need to ask the person doing the scan to be'very careful to read it properly. Is there anyone out there who conduct scans I'm stressed bout this and it's so important to know for both of us..if it was 90% mine makes a difference to 60 or 70%..nightmare.I should be with her for her pregnantcy but no way I can. do that now :(
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Answered by a member - Nov. 29, 2012 2:59pm
The only way of being 100% sure is to do a paternity test.
However, if she did indeed ovulate on the 20th or 21st, you would be the father. Sperm can survive in a woman for 2-3 days or longer in some cases. If you had sex on the 18th and she ovulated on the 20th or 21st, the sperm would have traveled up the fallopian tube by then to meet the egg. Eggs are only viable for about 24 hours, so 3 days later when she slept with the other man the egg would have either died (if it had not been fertilized) or already been fertilized, so the new sperm would not have affected the embryo.
It is, of course, possible that she ovulated later than she thinks, in which case the other man could be the father. But if she is confident in her ovulation date, I think you can be fairly certain you are the father.
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