Do you really get your period during the 1 or 2nd week of pregnancy?

Question

Weeks 1 & 2 of Pregnancy

Right now, you're having your period (your last one for a while): the lining of your uterus is shedding, taking with it last month's unfertilized egg. A new cycle is beginning, one that is the starting point for your pregnancy.

is this really true?

how do you know if your pregnant or if you were just late?

Answer 1

Most women DO NOT get their period during pregnancy, though a very very very small percentage do. It's not usual. You're right in what you heard about how a period works. Take a test. I'd say that if you got your period, you're not pregnant. If you're still worried, take a home pregnancy test. As for the answer before me, you're most likely not pregnant. You ovulate far enough between periods that there really isn't a chance that you have another period before you know. Usually, a MISSED period is the first clue to pregnancy and even then it's not definite. Good luck!

Answer 2

yeah thats why im panicked

because if you've only had s*x one or two weeks before your period, you can still bleed, and the process starts building over the next month.

basically, i bled in the week following my week of unprotected s*x, but there is still a chance of pregnancy in my upcoming period, which is very scary

good luck to you

Answer 3

No, if you got your period during the first/second week of pregnancy; the fertilized egg would go "bye bye," making it a miscarriage. The "starting point" of your pregnancy is when the sperm penetrates the egg wall. If you think your pregnant, you would have to have had intercourse approx. 14 days after the LAST day of your previous period. If you didn't have intercourse during that period, your most likely late.

Answer 4

You're not actually pregnant at the point described in that paragraph. Doctors always calculate pregnancy starting with the first day of the last menstrual period, because nobody can know for certain when you ovulated, when the egg got fertilized, or when the egg implanted in the uterus. The start date of the cycle in which you got pregnant is the only thing that can be determined with any certainty, so that's what the doctors go by, rather than trying to determine when you actually conceived.

Pregnancy usually takes 40 weeks from that start day.

The paragraph describes a woman having a normal period. If your period was late, you'd have to take a pregnancy test to find out whether you were pregnant or "just late". If you were pregnant, your pregnancy would be considered to have begun at the beginning of your last menstrual period, not the one you're late for, regardless of when you had s*x or conceived.