After Sex How Many Days to Get Pregnant

You know that sex leads to pregnancy. But how soon after sex do you get pregnant?

Conception may take place as soon as three minutes after sexual intercourse, or it may take up to five days. Implantation occurs five to 10 days after fertilization. It means anywhere from five to 15 days after you had sex.

Pregnancy symptoms may start as early as a week after you had sex or may take several weeks to start. But some women never get noticeable early pregnancy symptoms.

So, fertilization can occur within minutes of sex, but it is also possible to have intercourse on Tuesday and not conceive until Friday.

Could lying down after sex help you conceive faster? It seems makes sense. The sperm need to swim through the reproductive system.

Maybe it's easier for them to make the journey if they don't have to swim up—and can just swim horizontally. However, things are a little more complicated than that.

How Soon After Sexual Intercourse Do You Conceive?

You might think that the time between sex and conception is just the amount of time it takes sperm to swim to the egg. However, how rapidly sperm swim can’t completely answer the question.

Research found that sperm take between 2 up 10 minutes to travel from the cervix through to the fallopian tubes (where they hope to meet an egg.) This is regardless of gravity, and they will swim "up" through the uterus no matter what position your body is in.

If there is an egg waiting, conception can happen as quickly as three minutes after sexual intercourse.

That said, sperm can survive inside the female reproductive system for up to five days. This means that the day you had sex doesn’t have to be the day you got pregnant. If you had sex on Monday then you ovulate on Thursday, conception can occur days after you had sexual intercourse.

Occasionally, a doctor will estimate the day of conception based on how many weeks the fetus measures in an ultrasound, and this conception date doesn't match up with a day the couple had sex.
This possible slow down between intercourse and fertilization clarify how that can happen.

How Soon After Sex Will You Get Pregnancy Symptoms?

Whether fertilization occurs within minutes of sex or days later, will you be able to feel you're pregnant when it happens? Unfortunately, no.

Some women claim to have "known" they conceived within minutes of sex. The truth is that it's scientifically impossible. Any potential pregnancy symptoms will not appear until embryo implantation and that doesn't happen for another seven to 10 days.

It takes time for the fertilized egg to travel from the fallopian tubes and find a soft landing area in the uterus.

Having pregnancy signs at the time of implantation is also impossible. Most women don't start to experience pregnancy symptoms until they are a few days past their expected period, and some women never "feel" pregnant.

You may conceive within minutes of sexual intercourse. But, more commonly, hours or days will pass between the day you did the “horizontal baby dance” and the day of the egg was fertilized.
You might wonder if lying down after or during sex can help you get pregnant faster, but position probably doesn’t matter.

Sperm cells will swim towards your ovaries whether you’re standing up or standing on your head! Remember that a pregnancy test can not detect the moment of conception or even your implantation day.

This takes time. There needs to be enough pregnancy hormone in the body before the test will come up positive.

"While you are more likely to get pregnant, if you have sex two to three days before ovulation, you can get pregnant from sex that occurs up to six days before an egg is released from the ovary."

"The earliest you might expect to get pregnant after sex would be around 7 days. And usually, it takes between two to four weeks after sex before pregnancy symptoms are noticeable."