Am I Pregnant After Wearing a Diaphragm With No Spermicide?
Dear Sexperts, Jan 18 had intercourse with husband and failed to reapply spermicide after wearing diaphragm more than 6 hours Last day of menstruation was Jan 4. Do you think I am pregnant???? Answer: In short, the odds are low that you are pregnant but they are not zero. A variety of factors lead us to this conclusion. The diaphragm, much like the condom, is a barrier method of birth control. This means that it physically prevents many sperm from reaching a woman’s egg. Spermicide, on the other hand, is a chemical barrier that kills sperm. Thus, when spermicide is paired with the diaphragm it provides additional protection (like an extra bonus). Failure rate of a diaphragm is 6% with perfect use and 20% with typical use, so your failure rate is likely right in the range of typical use. Also contributing to unlikelihood of your being pregnant is your age. By age forty (on average) most of a woman’s eggs are gone. Further, since the most fertile years have passed, eggs become more at ri
