DH and I are extremely fertile together, I got pregnant all 4 times when we'd only dtd once and the last 3 I was still fully breastfeeding and my period had only returned once.

We also started a family quite old so it was a surprise we were both so fertile at such an advanced age!! Sometimes it is also a chemistry between two people, I certainly took many risks in the past with other men and never got pregnant.

He's had the snip as being so fertile we were worried about trusting any sort of contraception and we'd done with our family after 4 anyway!!

We were very scientific about it - OPKs and CBFM, used pre-seed lube and I stuck my legs in the air dead-budgie style afterwards. DTD 3 times in 24 hours. In spite of being older parents we got there first time so we gave that egg and sperm the best possible chance to do their work - and they produced DD :)

Took us about 3 months each time ranging from not trying at all to desperately trying.

I would recommend the Clear Blue Digital OV dual hormone sticks, they detect the hormone that shows you are about to ovulate and you get a flashing smiley face for 2-3 days, then you get a proper smiley face on OV day.

If you are DTD in the day or 2 before OV you stand a much better chance of getting PG as you get the swimmers up there and waiting for the egg to release. It worked for us, we did it about 3 times over smiley days and I'm now 13 weeks

As much as these people say do it every couple of days, there was no way that was going to happen with us and there are only about 2-3 fertile days in each month and I wanted to make sure we put our efforts into those days!

DS1, we were dtd all the time and I got pregnant on the fourth month of trying. DS2 we dtd once that month after only just deciding to ttc and I got pregnant

I am definatly from the school of thought that it should be fun and that being relaxed and enjoying yourselves really helps. With both of ours we not so much decided to try but just decided not to try not to (if you know what I mean) and stopped precautions. We then just kept up as normal which is DTD pretty much every other day. With DS1 it took about 3 months to get a + test with our second (which is due in October) it must have happened within a matter of days as we got a +ve at the end of the first month of not trying not to... I think the pressure of trying can make things difficult so try not to worry. Like veryone says it only take one....

This is my 8th pregnancy. We have never aimed for ovulation or counted days. 4 have been planned, the rest were accidents. One time I got pregnant the first day after my period finished, once with the coil, once with the implant. I wonder how people avoid it.

I have a regular cycle, so I knew whereabouts I'd be ovulating and we DTD every night around that time. We conceived the first month of trying, we were incredibly fortunate.

hahaha Isla - that made me laugh

I've had 6 +ve tests, have 3 dc and had 3 mc.

First 2 + were both mc, but at that point we weren't trying (really) and doing it all the time.

#3 (dd1) I remember as it made us late for a concert at church and first month of trying. We weren't trying very hard, tbh.

4 was our first month trying after dd1, we weren't being scientific about it. Was sadly a 14 wk mc.

#5 was ds - 2nd month of trying, no science there either!

#6 was dd2. I had a mirena coil. I was almost 12 weeks before I found out (throwing up every day for a week was a giveaway!) and I've no idea what our dtd pattern was!

I'm very glad dh has been snipped because we seem to be in the "sit on the same cushion" camp. Back then (dd1 is 13, ds is 11 and dd2 is 9) there wasn't this whole focus on opk etc but then we didnt have a problem.

I think it's 50% get pg within 3 months but might be wrong.

Good luck!

Had unprotected sex twice in my life and became pregnant both times, once with twins.
Have since had everything tied, clamped and sealed off.

Once. We were never sure when I was fertile anyway as I'd just had my implant removed so had sex when we fancied it.

Took me 2 months to conceive DD1 = 3 times.

With DD2 it took 4 months = 6 or 7 times.

We just literally had no time and second time round we had an extra distraction!

Did use OPKs though so timed rather than random events.

Arrrrrrr - what a lovely story

We decided to TTC in February 2012. We DTD on Friday night & Saturday morning and I got a positive test 10 days later. I also popped out two eggs that month. We now have lovely 11 month old twin girls :)

Ironically my BFP came on the back of a very looooooong dry spell too

I'm not even going to say how long, lol

First time - once, in the middle of a loooong dry spell - my body obviously thought it needed to take it's chance!

Second time - also once. This time we were actually ttc and in previous cycles had tried a bit harder, but for some reason that month we were tired / ill / DS not sleeping, blah blah blah, so only managed to dtd once. We had been trying for about 4 months.

I fully expected it to take us years to conceive as there are a lot of fertility issues in my family.

However, I got pregnant straight away. We were on holiday though so DTD, well, a lot. A couple of times a day (disclaimer: that's not our usual average!). Not sure if this will help you but for us it worked.

FYI - I was conceived on holiday too after 2+ years of trying by my parents. DB was born through IVF 6 years later.

We were incredibly lucky and caught immediately, within a couple of weeks of my implant coming out. We probably had sex a couple of times a week, but weren't going to start monitoring ovulation and timing sex until I'd had a period, because I didn't know when to count from until then. I didn't have a period, felt funny and tested. The first time it was negative but a week later it was positive.

I think most of ours have been when (for various reasons) we haven't managed it for a week or two until once or twice in the fertile window. Any "lots of sex" months -- no BFP. That makes me wonder whether perhaps DH has some very mild male factor issues, but we are very much Done with the whole baby thing now so it's not relevant any more.

That's meant to say the video was made by Nucleus Medical Media and that it was really good I'm on my husbands iPad and it is really crap as it always misses out letters during text or changing words!

I couldn't find the great sperm race but I did watch a rely good video called "Fertilization (conception)" but Nucleus Medic Media and it was really interesting. It said that of the hundreds of millions of sperm that are ejaculated, only a few dozen actually make it to the egg!!

It also said that when ejaculation occurs a very large number of sperm actually fall out of the vagina - which interested me as it is a common thought on here that all the sperm get where they need to go, I.e through the cervix...but obviously not!

I'm definitely glad I had my legs up in the air for 20 minutes post sex now

You should try and find it VJONES it was really interesting.

I've had ten pregnancies over 10 years.

Four times when we only had sex/unprotected sex once that month (including when I was still breastfeeding & my periods hadn't started again) resulting in dc1 & dc4.

Twice were assisted conception (one IVF, one ovulation induction) after 2.5 years of recurrent miscarriage/infertility) resulting in dc2.

Four times the standard OPKs aiming for sex every other day from CD6 to CD16 & an extra on ovulation day (undoubtedly my most stressful method) which resulted in dc3.

No rhyme or reason at all - my first two & last two pregnancies were easily achieved the ones in the middle largely problematic :/

That sounds interesting, thanks Doobedoo

For those who don't understand how you're not getting pregnant when doing everything right, watch The Great Sperm Race on YouTube. It explains all the obstacles there are to conception.