On the other, it takes a remarkably long time to train as a physician. Some specialists can take 16 years or longer to complete their training, and even family practitioners -- who treat a wide variety of conditions for patients of all ages -- typically require a total of 11 years of schooling.
The fact of the matter is that, while you will only ovulate for about 24 hours, the period of time that you are actually fertile is more like 5 or 6 days. After sexual intercourse, once the sperm are in a womanâs body, they can survive for as many as five days afterwards.
The â14th-dayâ thinking appears to come from either taking the average of when all women ovulate or from just dividing the 28-day cycle in half. This is not an accurate way to calculate ovulation because many women do NOT ovulate on the 14th day of their cycle. The day of ovulation differs from woman to woman and can even be different from month to month for an individual woman. For a woman with a 28-day cycle, the window of ovulation is day 11 through day 21 of your cycle. Ovulation could occur on any one day during this window.