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Dear Scarleteen,
I know that a withdrawal bleed on the pill signals pregnancy did not occur in the same way a period does off the pill. A thought occurred to me the other day though and made me wonder if you had sex close to the placebo pill week (like 3 days or so before your bleed) and you still got your bleed like normal, would that still mean you're not pregnant? I just wondered out of curiosity since i know implantation doesn't occur instantaneously. I couldn't find the answer anywhere so I was curious. Thanks for any information in advance.

Hi celica,

I'm going to quote Heather from this article: http://www.scarleteen.com/article/advic ... ds_and_sex

"a period has you shedding the lining needed for a fertilized egg to implant in, and because around the time a period starts, there usually is not an egg available to be fertilized, it would be very unusual to become pregnant with timing like this. When you get your period after a risk -- so long as it comes around the time you expected it and looks and feels like your usual period -- it's usually safe to assume pregnancy did not or is not going to occur from that risk."

Ok thanks so much! That makes sense! So basically the same rules would apply to a withdrawal bleed?

Yep!

Got it, thanks so much! You guys are awesome!