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Adam Taylor, Professor and Director of the Clinical Anatomy Learning Centre, Lancaster University

Some women have become pregnant through anal sex – and other extremely rare methods of conception

Sometimes, pregnancies occur under extremely rare circumstances. fizkes/ Shutterstock

Unless you skipped sex ed class, you probably have at least a basic understanding of how babies are made. An egg (ovum) needs to be fertilised by sperm during a precise window in the menstrual cycle for life to happen.

Sexual intercourse provides optimal conditions for reproduction. But that doesn’t mean that every pregnancy happens this way. There are also examples of women conceiving in extremely rare circumstances that you’d expect to be impossible.

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