Sorry, in my post above I wrote that I conceived quickly, I did. The first time, however, now that I recall, took almost a year?
The older I got, the quicker they were conceived. Honestly, I didn't understand when I ovulated or the whole timing thing, so we wasted our efforts with the first ttc.
I by no means meant to sound like it is "simple " or guaranteed once you understand ovulation. It's much more complex than that for many, but for some reason I have been lucky with my fertility as an 'advanced maternal age' or geriatric mother.
Anyways, did not want to sound insensitive at all to those ttc. I have faith in post 40 pregnancies!
We were missing our timing but once I figured that out, we were off to the races. I also recommend not waiting for a positive opk... we had best luck doing it in advance of ovulation, not day of.
We are very old and knackered with young children and I was doing a masters, too.... but managed to conceive by doing it just once a month for one pregnancy. I really think timing is imperative and I read loads and was unnaturally obsessed with mucous.
Right, I'm going to shut up now!