Can you be pregnant....
 

Ooh...who's the daddy?

No. No you cannot. Period(no pun intended ;) )

My aunt is living proof that you indeed CAN be pregnant and still have your period. She had up until her 6th month actually. She had no clue she was pregnant (she's not really all that thin so she thought the extra tummy she was getting was just bloating!) until she went to the doctor and he ran a test and was like "um, honey, you're with child...!" she had had her period up until then, and then after that it stopped. The baby was born without any complications either.......weird, I know...but it's true!

I think it is common for pregnant women to have "spotting" during their pregnancy.

Yes you can be pregnant and still have your period...a friend who had a miscarriage didn't even know she was pregnant because she kept having her periods.

Most of the times you will still have a few very light periods at the beginning (from what I've heard). But if a woman were to experience a period in the middle or end of her pregnancy, she'd want to get to a doctor right away and have it checked out. My friend had a coworker have this happen to her and she ended up being okay~ just a little freaked out though. So I guess there is a little proof that you can have a slight period and still be pregnant.

Did she have ANY kind of clue? Morning sickness, anything?

My father was a physician and he told me that he had several patients who bled for several months, one the whole time, and they had otherwise uneventful pregnancies and at the end, full-term and healthy babies.

There are plenty of women who never even know they're pregnant BECAUSE they're still having their period the whole time. I doubt it's a very common thing though.

It is very common. But is the spotting the same thing as a period?

Oh, great. Here I was looking forward to 9 period-free months as a reward for spending 9 months without caffeine, alcohol, rare steak, or my beloved sushi... j/k - the real reward is, of course, the little one(s) :)

I've heard that you can have spotting that coincides with the time you'd ordinarily have your period - but it's not a real period. But I don't speak from experience.

(ignore my penis for a moment)

NO IT IS NOT POSSIBLE.

You may have bleeding, and it may coincide with when you would normally have your period - but it is NOT your period. Your period entails ovulation and purging of the placental walls, IIRC, and as such would abort any pregnancy. Actually, that's the reason why humans have periods to start with . . .

So it may very well seem like you are having your period - in fact, it may be impossible to tell one from the other - but it is NOT your period.

If it were, we would have cases of two babies being born who were conceived at different times in the same woman - ie a baby birthed at full term, and one 5 months along right next to it.

Dig?

lol

I don't know that I think of "period" as the technical cycle anymore--seems like these days we just treat it as an irritating number of days having to deal with extra hygiene. so I'd say having a 'period' in the sense that there's blood and you're dealing with it is possible even if it's not the whole ovulation ordeal; I've read that you can bleed monthly up to like 6 months and have it be normal (I recommend a book called "Taking Charge of Your Fertility" and I think that that's the first thing women should be experts on--their own bodies!!). Prolly lighter than usual though as others have said.

And I must add that I, too, was impressed by that male chronicle of a woman's reproductive cycle :)

~april

haha - yeah, i don't know, somewhere along the way to the science degree I lost the automatic "puke in mouth" response . . . man, I sorta want it back.

Although generally "Impressing people" = "good" so maybe not

Question???
 

If your on the pill, you can still get your period bc the pill regulates it coming and going.
has anyone ever been on the pill and pregnant and did not know?? If so how did you figure it out?? Test??

when you are on the pill you do not ovulate, your "period" is just the shedding of the uterine lining. therefore no egg = no baby. generally the cases of where you hear about people on the pill getting is pregnant are people who forget to take their pills.

She said sometimes she woke up with the urge to throw up, but she attributed it to the fact that she gets migraines quite frequently, and waking up wanting to be sick wasn't uncommon for her. The only thing that she really noticed was the weight gain, and she didn't think anything of that either.

You know how they say that alot of times the side effects of illnesses are a mental thing? This is probably true for things associated with pregnancy as well because after she found out she was pregnant she started having strange cravings, pronounced morning sickness, etc.

Actually, I learned at a genetics conference that it is quite possible to have two babies who are concieved different times and born at the same time. it is not an impossibility at all, in fact, ther's been a case of a woman having triplets by 3 different fathers.

sorry, that's the only thing i ever learned in accelerated bio

damn!

actually, I didn't mean to make it sound like it was a physical impossibility - stranger things have happened - but my intention was to state that it would be borderline commonplace if you could have your period while pregnant. Bottom line: no period while pregnant.

PS - cite?

Okay, so you can be pregnant and bleed, but you're not having your period. I see how that can make sense, but by this definition I'm not really having my period every month because I'm not ovulating!?

I'm assuming you want me to say where i learned this from. it's been about 6 years since i went, but i think that the name was Sam Hutchinson. He does (or he used to) do a genetics conference for high schoo kids every year at Raymond Walters College (an offshoot of University of Cincinnati). It was really quite interesting. Genetics was the only science thing i've ever been good at.

This thread is cracking me up. Mostly KSig and hearing about the mom of half-related triplets!

And I hope whoever mentioned "high schoo" kids DIDN'T make a typo... that made me smile too. :)

OH -- I wanted to add that some women get pregnant even though they're taking their pill correctly -- either they're part of the point zero zero whatever failure rater or they took some medicine (antibiotics, whatever) that messed with the reliability of the pill.

I kinda question the idea of being pregnant and not knowing it, though.

As an RN, I can say that I have actually seen women who come to the hospital not knowing what is wrong with them and find out they are having a baby. It is kind of freaky, but yes, it does happen..............

Keep in mind some women who have "surprise babies" are women in their 40s and 50s...women whose cycles have been less than regular for a while, and they chalk it up to premenopause. I guess it's possible for a woman with irregular periods to not miss hers for 8-9 months. I know that there's also "breakthrough" bleeding sometimes during pregnancy--harmless spotting that occurs around the time that a period normally would.

I'm just glad it's not me. I'd hate to go to the doctor for a backache and find out that it's twins.

While we're on the topic of pregantcy and the female reproductive system i'd like to throw a general question out there...does blood type have anything to do with getting a woman pregnant?

Some guy i work with is claiming his gf is made for him because they just happen to have the rarest form of blood, double O negative. Apparently his rare form of blood prevents women from becoming pregant, and in believing this, he's playing the savior in helping his gf (who was already depressed because she couldn't have kids) have kids.

..yeah, sounds ridiculous, but i've heard crazier shit from this guy.

i saw on the news a couple years ago, a woman who didnt know she was having a baby until she went into labor. she had regular periods every month too. i hear it is very rare for that to happen

WTF? I've never heard of blood type playing a factor.

I don't know if your friend is bullshitting you or not about playing savior. The reason being because I have a freind as well who either can't have kids or will have a really hard time getting pregnant. She's told me before she doesn't want to get married to anyone and that as soon as she's sure she wants to have a child, she'd like to have one with me. When asked, "why me?" she responded with a "you're not going to fall in love with me" comment. This girl is cute and sexy, but she's been through a lot in the relationship thing. I think she's a little messed up in the head from it all. I told her I'd think about it and that it'd have to wait until we're at least 27 yrs old, but if it's going to be virtually impossible then there's nothing wrong hitting it raw dogg a couple of years early! I started laughing while she got pissed because I was reffering to hitting her stuff in a non serious manner when she was being serious.

I doubt it. I had a gf for 2 yrs who was on the pill. Sometimes she would forget to take one but it never mattered. We would have sex all throughout the day, raw dog. She never got pregnant. There for awhile I thought I must be sterol from previous juice usuage. With my next gf I found out I wasn't.

There has to be that 6/10 of a percent, but if the "white pills" are the placebos, then no, normally she would not become pregnant. The placebos are just sugar pills so you don't get out of the habit of taking one every day. Whether or not you take them doesn't make a difference in your likelihood of getting pregnant.

oh and re blood type guy, the only factor of blood type that plays any part is if you have rh factor.

In very rare (and dangerous, for that matter) cases, there is something called an ectopic pregnancy. An ectopic pregnancy is a condition where a fertilized egg settles and grows in any location other than the inner lining of the uterus. The vast majority of ectopic pregnancies occur in the fallopian tube (95%), however, they can occur in other locations, such as the ovary, cervix, and abdominal cavity.

Symptoms of an ectopic pregnancy can often be vague, and include vaginal bleeding, abdominal or pelvic pain (usually stronger on one side), shoulder pain, weakness, or dizziness. These symptoms can also occur in other conditions such as ovarian cysts, miscarriages, or even in normal pregnancy.

(Taken from medicinenet.com)

what's dat?
This bullshitter was not my friend. Just some dishonest sob that got fired for stealing shit from cars....not long after the original post actually.

My aunt had her period for the first three months of her pregnancy. From what I've heard, if you're on the pill, you might be more likely to have your period during pregnancy (if you didn't know you were pregnant and continued taking the pill)

The rH factor = whether your blood type is positive or negative. I have a negative blood type, and it is common practice for women w/ a negative rH factor to be injected with rhogam both while they are pregnant and after the baby is born... at least that's what the obgyn who delivered my son said.
I may have misunderstood, but from what I recall, it had something to do with the possibility of my body rejecting the baby if his rH factor was positive (which it is).
An example would be that if the mother has O- blood and the father has A+, the baby has O+. In my case, my mother is O+, father is AB-, and I am O-. Basically, the baby takes the letter type from the mother, and the rH factor from the father.