We can't know an exact figure on what your chances of being pregnant are, but anytime you have unprotected sex, you have a chance of pregnancy. It sounds like you and your boyfriend used the "pull out" method (or Withdrawal Method), which has about a 84% effectiveness rate for pregnancy prevention (you can click on the links below for the website to learn more about this birth control method). It is not as reliable as condoms (up to 98%) or hormonal contraception (99%), but it does offer some protection (although, some experts believe there may be sperm in the pre-ejaculate, even before your partner ejaculates).
You do not need to be actively ovulating to become pregnant, as sperm can live inside a woman's body for up to 5 days when she is fertile....so estimating the time of ovulation after-the-fact (without using a ovulation tracking method) would just be a guessing game and not provide us with much information.
Just for future reference, the important dates to know regarding your cycle is the FIRST day of your last menstrual period (you said Aug 21st was the last day of your last menstrual period). To know how long your cycles are, you count the first day of bleeding as "day 1", then count each consecutive day until the next time you begin bleeding, which would start over with "day 1". The number of days in between is your cycle length.
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What are your pregnancy test results?
We can't know an exact figure on what your chances of being pregnant are, but anytime you have unprotected sex, you have a chance of pregnancy. It sounds like you and your boyfriend used the "pull out" method (or Withdrawal Method), which has about a 84% effectiveness rate for pregnancy prevention (you can click on the links below for the website to learn more about this birth control method). It is not as reliable as condoms (up to 98%) or hormonal contraception (99%), but it does offer some protection (although, some experts believe there may be sperm in the pre-ejaculate, even before your partner ejaculates).
You do not need to be actively ovulating to become pregnant, as sperm can live inside a woman's body for up to 5 days when she is fertile....so estimating the time of ovulation after-the-fact (without using a ovulation tracking method) would just be a guessing game and not provide us with much information.
Just for future reference, the important dates to know regarding your cycle is the FIRST day of your last menstrual period (you said Aug 21st was the last day of your last menstrual period). To know how long your cycles are, you count the first day of bleeding as "day 1", then count each consecutive day until the next time you begin bleeding, which would start over with "day 1". The number of days in between is your cycle length.
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