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In order to know what day you can conceive, you will need to know what day you ovulate. Women ovulate at different times, with some cycles being the typical 28 day cycle (with the 1st day of your period being the 1st day of your new cycle), while others may have much longer or shorter cycles.

They now sell ovulation predictor kits over the counter. This will tell you what day you ovulate. In a typical 28 day cycle, you will ovulate around day 14. For a 26 day cycle, you may ovulate earlier--or you may ovulate later. If you ovulate later, then trouble conceiving may be due to a too short luteal phase (the time after you ovulate till your period begins), and you will need to get your progesterone levels checked to see if they are adequate to sustain a pregnancy.

But in a normal, healthy woman with no fertility issues, you would typically begin trying to conceive a couple days after menstruation stopped and until about day 18 (or if using an ovulation predictor kit, until the kit tells you that you have ovulated). These days would cover a typical potential fertile period in normal ovulating women (and includes some extra days, in case of late ovulation). By having sexual intercourse every other day or so during this period, you ensure that sperm is present at the time that the egg is released. This will optimize chances for pregnancy, if no other fertility problems are present.

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