Wrong Info from Public Schools?
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| Sat, 02-16-2008 - 10:24pm |
I was always taught that women are fertile all the time, and now I am seeing more and more things saying that women are only fertile part of the time.
I have an associates degree, and in my college classes, my college prep classes, and high school biology classes, it was taught the same way; that women are always fertile. As I recall from those classes, after an egg is released, it stays in the woman waiting to be fertilized. If not fertilized, it is absorbed back into to the uterus. I remember the one of the teachers explicitly stating that the way the cycles worked out, as soon as one egg is absorbed another is getting ready to be released, and coupled with the fact that sperm can live for a few days, there is always a chance of pregnancy. I understood that there are days of increased fertility, and there are days of lesser fertility, but never that there is a complete lack of fertility during part of the cycle. I know that I could've just not understood the concept for three classes in a row, but considering I was an honor student and did well in those classes, I find that hard to believe. I believe I still do have my notes from one of those classes, but it is packed away. If I can manage to find it, I do intended on rereading it.
I graduated college in 2006, so I know my information isn't that out dated. I'm not asking that the menstrual cycle is explained to me again, I've read the information myself. I understand it. I'm just very confused that what was taught to me in school is turning out to be very different from what I'm reading now. The only think I can think of is the teachers wanted to scare the girls away from having sex unprotected at any time, due to STD's, but in an honor-student only college prep course is that necessary?
Thank you

I'm replying on very little sleep, so hopefully I'll make some sense.
Eggs are fertile when they are released into the fallopian tubes, and are fertilized only when one or two sperm are able to break in.