The timings for each stage will vary from person to person.
Day 1-5: Period. The first day of the cycle starts on the first day of a person’s period.
Days 5-14: When a period finishes, the womb will start to prepare for a fertilised egg. At around day 12-14, a new egg is released from an ovary (there are two ovaries in the body). These are the days when pregnancy is most likely to happen. But pregnancy can happen any time live sperm meets a live egg.
Days 15-24: The egg travels down the fallopian tube to arrive in the womb, and the womb gets ready to receive the egg by growing a thick lining for the egg to be implanted into.
Days 25-28: If the egg has been fertilised, it will implant into the lining and start to grow into a foetus. This means the person is pregnant and their periods will stop for as long as they are pregnant. But if the egg hasn’t been fertilised it will start to break down and so will the lining. The lining will then be ready to leave the body. And the cycle begins again.
