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When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

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How Long Did You Take To Get Pregnant?

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JadeC96 · 26/05/2017 22:18

Hi...

I am currently in my first month of TTC. I was on the contraceptive pill before this and I have had one period. I use an App to track when I should be ovulating and believe I just did last week. I DTD 4/6 days of ovulating...

I just want to see what other people's experience with how quickly they conceived.

I am 21 years old and healthy.

Thanks

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ForeverHopeful21 · 29/05/2017 08:59

sk1pper sometimes I'm not sure how I've gotten through it to be honest. Getting pregnant after 2.5 years of trying was a dream come true, so for it to end in MC was beyond devastating. It's hard when people say "well you can just try again" as if it's as easy as that!

I told my my GP that I can't TTC for another 2.5 years for it to end again, and I've FINALLY been referred to the fertility clinic so that's giving me hope. I have an amazing husband and 2 fur-babies who keep me spirits up, but it is hard. I hope you get your baby soon xxx

feelingcalledlove · 29/05/2017 08:43

I'm 31 (30 when we started TTC). Took us 6 months, then we had an early miscarriage, then got pregnant again straight away. Was starting to get nervous about fertility after the six months but then we conceived two cycles in a row... You just never know!

sk1pper · 29/05/2017 08:32

Those of you who have been trying for 2+years and then unfortunately had an MC...how do you keep going? I ask because I'm coming up to my 2 years now...if I had a MC after all this time waiting I think it would destroy me. You're incredible ladies xx

Frazzled2207 · 28/05/2017 23:10

Well over a year at 34.
Dtd precisely once at 36.

MaryShelley1818 · 28/05/2017 21:47

Age 39 and currently 11wks pregnant with #1. (38 when I conceived).
6 cycles of TTC after 20yrs on pill!

BlueeSpottyTiger · 28/05/2017 17:04

Age 22- Concieved dd on cycle 3
Age 24- Ttc #2 concieved on cycle 3 (ended in cp) xx

FluffyTowers · 28/05/2017 14:44

Fell pregnant at 21 after being off the pill for 1 month, at 23 fell pregnant in first month of ttc, at 31 it was a drunken fumble which coincided with ovulation day apparently.

Fingers crossed for you!

Viletta · 28/05/2017 14:27

They say right after you go off the pill, you are most fertile

tigo · 28/05/2017 04:08

I'm 32, coil removed in January, pregnant in February. Smile

NapQueen · 27/05/2017 17:54

Dc1 conceived on second month of trying. Had stopped the pill a year before and used condoms; which weve also just kept using since.

Pregnancy2 (mc at 11wks): took 5 months.

Dc2 (preg3): one dtd once, ovulated the next morning. Hey presto.

I get excruciating ovulation pain, so always was able to tell when, but due to the pains never much fancied dtd around it. I also found keeping a little eye on my cervical mucus helped.

ForeverHopeful21 · 27/05/2017 17:50

It too me over 2.5 years to get pregnant (sadly miscarried), but a few of my friends got pregnant in just a few months.

forfucksakejanet · 27/05/2017 11:55

DC1 first month off the pill, DC2 12 cycles. It all depends on so many different things

Oysterbabe · 27/05/2017 10:47

It took 5 months after my last pill for DD when I was 34. It took 2 months with #2 and I'm 36.

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JadeC96 · 27/05/2017 10:44

Thank you everyone for all your responses and good luck wishes♥️

My test is due to be taken in 9 days and I am so excited. I am so curious about things that I have no idea about. I love to research and find things out, not in a worrying way, more of a curious excited way.

*I will keep reading through the responses here.

Thank you again everyone*💕

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JadeC96 · 27/05/2017 10:39

Hi BertieBotts

Me and my partner have been together 5 years this year, since we were 16. We have both received a degree together within this time and we have spoke about when we will be ready to TTC since early in our relationship. So after waiting for five years, I would say yes that I and we are ready.

I found your response a little patronising if I am honest.

I came here not because I am worried, I am simply curious, I just want to hear other people's stories, maybe it takes my mind off the excitement of taking a test in 9 days.

I am more than ready.

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Oddsocksforeveryone · 26/05/2017 23:11

Tried for years with one dp.
Diagnosed with pcos.
Tried for a year with fiancé.
Pregnant first time together with ex - miscarried at 10 weeks
Tried for 8 months - ds1
1st time - ds2
10 months not exactly trying with DH - dd1
6 months later accidentally conceived - dc4
Probably not helpful but they were all different

jmscp2015 · 26/05/2017 23:08

Echoing others, everybody is different.

25 now and took 2 years.

Hulababy · 26/05/2017 22:56

I was about 25/26 when I started to TTC. Id been taking the pill for about 10 years previously.

Took about 14 months but that sadly ended in an early mc. Another 14m after that.

Everybody is different.

Viletta · 26/05/2017 22:53

Hello. Norma is 6 months. Up to a year of you are unlucky. After that you should check with GP if all is good with you both. Some people get pregnant cycle 1. Make sure you dtd in your fertility window every other day. You are young, everything will be good! Good luck!

Waddlelikeapenguin · 26/05/2017 22:48

First month without contraception x three. All those years of being paranoid about contraception.... not paranoid!

user1482079332 · 26/05/2017 22:45

28 3months after being on the pill

MrsGB2225 · 26/05/2017 22:45

I got my bfp 2 months after taking my last pill.

Degustibusnonestdisputandem · 26/05/2017 22:44

32 and DTDs were a happy 'surprise'

Fliptophead · 26/05/2017 22:43

3 minutes.

Baddum tish

(A few years actually)

ew1990 · 26/05/2017 22:42

26 and took me 2 years x

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