getting pregnant from precum?

[princessmange.livejournal.com]

I know this has probably been asked before, but I'm too lazy to find the posts XD

Anyway, my fiance and I always use condoms, and I'm not on birth control because it screws with my emotions. Anyway the last couple times we've had sex, we would go a few seconds without a condom, then put one on. How dangerous is that? I'm not expecting my period until the 26th or so, and I'm already starting to feel PMS symptoms... Probably freaking out over nothing, but I want your guys's opinion! How likely is it to get pregnant from that?

Comments

[encircleme.livejournal.com]

If he's peed more recently than he's ejaculated, the chances of pre-cum containing sperm are very low. The chances increase if he's ejaculated and then went for a round two without flushing out the pipes so to speak.

[archangelbeth]

The main risks there are:

1: Has he ejaculated without urinating in between? If he has, then there could be droplets of semen, containing viable sperm, that could wash out in pre-cum. He needs to urinate after every ejaculation, basically, to flush out any semen droplets in that long penile urethra.

2: Does he leak semen prior to ejaculation, and if so, how much prior? (If he does not usually have pre-cum, or it is usually clear, but sometimes you get the milky stuff, that would be an indication of leaking. And you basically have to be doing a hand-job or getting oral, to tell. Which is how I found out that I will never ever rely on withdrawal with my spouse. O;> )

If the answer to 1 is "no entry without urination after ejaculation" and the answer to 2 is "never tasted/seen a leak," then you're unlikely to have any risk. Further, if you're already feeling PMS, that does lean towards it being unlikely that you're pregnant. (If your period is late or weird, and you feel concerned, you can test 19 days after the sex in question and negative results are quite reliable by then.)


If you'd like to be more secure in going without a condom, you might want to investigate:
• a copper IUD
• contraceptive sponges (I would suggest "in addition to" a second form of contraception till you're in a mode where "it would be fairly inconvenient to have a pregnancy, but we could cope; I don't like the sponge's protection percent, personally)
• diaphragm (I would personally not rely on the diaphragm alone because I had a sibling who was one of the Failure Rate statistics for diaphragms; but I'm biased there)
• Fertility Awareness Method (see also fam, I believe)

Some of those could be used entirely instead of condoms -- well, all of them, depending on your risk tolerance, really -- and all could be paired with them, to help you feel safer if going a little while without a condom, or, in the case of FAM, to indicate when it would be highly unlikely that you'd be ovulating anyway.

I hope this is all helpful!

[catterpillar177.livejournal.com]

have a question.. I sort of slept with a guy, we tried to sleep together but he couldn't get hard enough to be inside me fully. It was about a minute and a half of trying. Why are the odds of me being pregnant from this? Can a guy pre ejaculate without a full erection?can I be pregnant if he wasn't fully inside? Help!!

[archangelbeth]

If someone has ejaculated recently, then yes, there's a risk that semen droplets might get washed out on pre-ejaculate, or squeezed out; how big a risk? Unknown. I don't know how much pre-ejaculate fluid happens with someone who isn't fully erect, since my major experiences were with penises that produced no pre-ejaculate at all, ever. It may well depend on the penis in question.

If the person hadn't ejaculated in the past few hours, and/or had urinated since the last ejaculation, then the chances of pregnancy are extremely low.

And it is still good to note, whether this applies in your case or not, that STDs do not always care if someone ejaculates or has pre-ejaculate. The "common cold" of sexually-transmitted viruses, HIV, requires pretty much just skin contact (it is amazingly common; if you've ever had genital contact with someone who's not unicorn bait, pretty much assume you've been exposed, shrug, and try to have a pap smear every few years), and HSV (or the "common cold sore"...) is likewise capable of shedding infectious virus particles -- sometimes even when there's no obvious outbreak. Using a condom (penis covering or vaginal insert) may ease your mind both on the pregnancy side of things and the STD side.

[nickelshoe.livejournal.com]

Condoms have a 15% typical use failure rate per year and a 2% perfect use failure rate per year. Withdrawal has a typical use failure rate of about 27% per year and a perfect use failure rate of about 4% per year. What you're doing is somewhere between.

[pyraterose.livejournal.com]

The husband and I would always start without one, then when he would feel like he was getting close he would put a condom on and finish. We didn't have a single scare in three years...until the one day I misjudged my cycle and let him finish inside me without one...We're due in January XD They aren't messing around when they tell you it only takes once (in the right circumstances). I just happened to be ovulating the next day and forgot about it...Whoops ;)