Does the time of day you have Sex matters if you're TTC?

Question

I ask because whenever Glow tells me it's Peak Day, we have sex, but we always do it at night, usually after 10:30pm and I wonder if that's too late at night and maybe that's why we haven't been able to conceive. Also, we try to have sex the day before Peak Day and the day after, just in case... but always at night. We've been trying since May 2015.

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No. Time of day doesn't matter at all. Sperm lives in the uterus between 3 to 5 days.

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Time of day does kind of matter, the reason is because after ovulation the egg can only be fertilized for 12 to 24 hrs. This is why it is important to have sex before you ovulate so the sperm (which can live for up to 6 days inside you if they are in fertile cm) is already there waiting for your egg and can meet up with egg as soon as you ovulate. Having sex the night before or days before is great. If you were to only have sex the day you ovulate and it isn't till say, 11pm but you ovulated at 3am that morning and your window for fertilization was only 17 hrs (just an example, since it can be from 12 to 24 hrs) than you may have missed your oportunity for fertilization. You should be ok though since you said you also have sex before ovulation. I was wondering the same thing for myself. Hope my explanation wasn't too confusing.

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I honestly don't know anything for sure for the time of day.  But we've also been trying to conceive since May 2015. I went in for tests and and I actually wasn't ovulating even though my cycles were normal.  If definitely call your Dr and see what they think.  I called after it had been 6 cycles.

Does the time of day you have Sex matters if you're TTC?

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