TTC Myths

[piccyami]

My sister informed me she got pregnant because her H has super sperm, not because she wasn't taking her BC correctly.

[housecarder]

May 8, 2015 13:01:03 GMT -5 TheEleventhHour said:

May 8, 2015 11:34:44 GMT -5 jewel441 said:

My mom told me this when I was in high school. She also once told me that if you aren't currently sexually active that your period can just go away, but once you start having sex again it will come back. She also said that exercise would maybe "shake it loose" 

The image of "shaking it loose" is equally hysterical and horrifying. 

The image I got was similar to this...

[gizmo]

May 7, 2015 20:07:54 GMT -5 swivelchair5 said:

May 7, 2015 20:06:05 GMT -5 requiressnacks said:

The woman must have an orgasm to conceive.

Although no harm in letting your SO believe this one.

I took a class in college that got into this. There was a video to support the idea that I won't describe. It was interesting. 

I don't want dh to hear this. He's already got some performance anxiety.

[anonymouseliza]

May 7, 2015 21:33:19 GMT -5 TheEleventhHour said:

May 7, 2015 19:54:12 GMT -5 wannabmama said:

You can get pregnant any day of your cycle. Seriously, my teacher for health class said that.

I was also informed this in health class and in hindsight I wonder if it was to just scare us out of having sex (or at least encourage us to use BC/protection all the time). 

Well, technically it isn't true (since you can only get pregnant when you are about to ovulate/ovulating), but there is truth the idea that you could get pregnant from sex on any cycle day, since ovulation isn't a fixed date in the cycle (ie, we don't all ovulate on cd 14).  It's poorly worded/phrased and thus inaccurate, but in terms of sex ed, it's closer to what I'd teach my kid.