Sperm on baby wipes

[lemosh]

Hello! This is an oddly specific situation that has been driving me nuts the past few days. I’d say a day into my ovulation week, my boyfriend and I were doing some stuff and it wasn’t any sex, more like oral, and I ended up getting a bit of sperm residue on my thighs. It was on both sides and it wasn’t really close to my vagina at all but it was relatively thin layers. I got up to grab a pack of wipes and clean it off. It’d been sitting on my skin for a couple of seconds before I got to wiping it off. Without thinking, I cleaned my vagina off with the same wipe. I proceeded to grab a couple more wipes and clean myself off 2-3 more times. My question is how viable would the sperm have been once I wiped myself off after cleaning it, and im quite frankly nervous as im expecting my period right now.

[Heather]

Hi there, lemosh.

You can take a read here -- https://www.scarleteen.com/read/pregnan ... rers-guide -- and see that the answer here is that this is not a way pregnancy can happen. It's not just about sperm cells being viable -- that's only one piece of what's needed for a pregnancy, or even just fertilization. Another really important piece is the fluid that sperm is ejaculated with. That's not only needed for those sperm cells to be able to get to the cervix in the first place, including the forward movement an ejaculation creates, it's also needed to balance out the acidic nature of the vagina. Sperm cells all by themselves can't do jack.

It might also be helpful to know that modern spermicides are effectively soap. So, that wipe all by itself probably did those cells in.