IT’S almost impossible to predict when a woman will be fertile, a study of
200 healthy women has revealed.
Conventional wisdom holds that a woman’s fertile window—the six days
before and including ovulation—is usually midway through the 28-day
menstrual cycle, some time between days 10 and 17. But Allen Wilcox of the US
National Institutes of ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ near Washington DC found that this was true of
only 30 per cent of the women (British Medical Journal, vol 321, p
1260). There is even a 1 to 6 per cent chance of becoming pregnant on the day a…
