How does a woman become pregnant?
A woman usually becomes pregnant after having sexual intercourse. This is where a man puts his erect penis inside a woman’s vagina. The friction caused by moving his penis in and out of her vagina will cause him to get increasingly excited until eventually he ejaculates (or ‘comes’) and releases a sticky white substance called semen. This semen contains millions of tiny sperm cells, which then swim up the woman’s vagina, into her uterus (womb) and then into her fallopian tubes where they may join with the tiny egg that she releases from one of her ovaries every month. If this ‘joining’ (also known as fertilisation or conception) occurs, then she will become pregnant. For more information about reproduction and fertilisation, please visit our puberty, pregnancy and sexual intercourse page.
A woman usually becomes pregnant after having sexual intercourse. This is where a man puts his erect penis inside a woman’s vagina. The friction caused by moving his penis in and out of her vagina will cause him to get increasingly excited until eventually he ejaculates (or ‘comes’) and releases a sticky white substance called semen. This semen contains millions of tiny sperm cells, which then swim up the woman’s vagina, into her uterus and into then fallopian tubes where they may join with the tiny egg that she releases every month. If this ‘joining’ (also known as fertilisation) occurs, then she will become pregnant.
