Ok weird question time

[lidalbit]

Ok this is kinda weird but it has been on my mind. I'm just wondering...since sperm is said to live in your body from like 3-7 days depending on the circumstance...do they just all pile up somewhere and some die each day waiting on an egg? Or am I totally confused?

[lidalbit]

HAHA!! Thanks for the info...I've just been wondering about that!! Sorry took me so long to respond. Had to go somewhere tonight...

JoyRenee-OMG...just read about everything that happened to you tonight...THAT'S CRAZY GIRL!!!! Hope everything is starting to settle down for you now!!!! :)

[JoyRenee]

I like how your mind thinks, Gina! LOL! I try to visualize sperm racing for the egg during BD-time.

[Gina209]

Can you imagine a lil Spermie just sitting there waiting for the Egg....like La De Dah...haha that would be soooo funny!

[Heather5]

Basically the sperm can survive for up to five days in fertile cervical mucus. Some will start swimming up towards the fallopian tubes right away, and if there's no egg yet, they will not be able to fertilize. However, there's a supply of additional sperm in the cervical mucus that will continue to "escape" at different times and swim up towards a possible egg. That's why intercourse up to five days before ovulation can still lead to pregnancy.

At least that's how I understood it...

:-)

[mamaofonetrying42]

Im not really sure, but my guess would be, it takes them that long to "swim up there" to put the egg. LOL

[beach23]

thats what i thought, but i dont know if thats what really happens

[LACh1]

i think it really depends on the circumstances e.g. what time of month it is for the women  and how much and the type of cm there is.  like if it is like egg whites then they can swim into the uterus and survive for longer (the more mature and healthy the sperm the longer they live and further they get up the uterus to meet the egg), if it is think and gluggy they can't swim through it and will die then come out in the cm over the next few days or be absorbed.  If there is no cm or little like just after AF the lining of the vigina is acidic and will kill them right away. That id juct wnat i understand from my own reading - but i could be wrong.