What is the time gap between intercourse(striking sperm particle and egg) and first day of pregnancy?
The egg lives for about a day. A man’s sperm can live inside a woman’s body for about six days. Because the sperm can “wait” for an egg for six days, fertilization of a woman’s egg is more likely from intercourse before or during ovulation than from intercourse following ovulation. When an ovum is developing in an ovary, it is encapsulated in a sac known as a follicle. On maturity of the ovum, the follicle and the ovary’s wall rupture, allowing the ovum to escape and enter the fallopian tube. There it travels toward the uterus, pushed along by movements of cilia on the inner lining of the tubes. This trip takes hours or days. If the ovum is fertilized while in the fallopian tube, then it implants in the endometrium when it reaches the uterus, which signals the beginning of pregnancy.
