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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 it take the first time?

83 replies

Chaoscontrol · 10/10/2022 18:47

This is utterly ridiculous but Google is shit at 'advice' and I need some real people..

How long did it take you to conceive first time? Google sets unrealistic expectations and I'm sick of feeling crap because of it..

I am TTC baby no1 and I need some real answers in how long it took, or if you are still trying?

✨Thank you

OP posts:
tiktokontheclock · 10/10/2022 20:27

DD1 - month one
Dd2 - month three

LovingLifesHurdles · 10/10/2022 20:27

Chaoscontrol · 10/10/2022 20:14

This is what I needed!!

Real, honest, actual answers!!

This is my first month and I'm expecting my body to just 'work' with so much pressure on myself I'd it doesn't happen first time.

Thank you, so so much.
You have no idea the comfort this is giving.

Sorry to hear you already feel so much pressure on yourself. Getting pregnant is usually a journey for most people (for some bumpier and longer than others). I think accepting that up front might make it easier for you.

Please be kind to yourself, give your body space and time, and take as much pressure off yours as you can. I honestly believe that pressure and stress really mess with out bodies desire / ability to get pregnant.

Mommabear20 · 10/10/2022 20:26

With our first, We were trying for 18 months, decided to take a break from trying for a year, and then conceived the first month we started trying again.

Second was the second month.

And third was a failure of contraception.

So god knows what we were doing wrong for those first 18 months 🤷‍♀️

tootrueblue · 10/10/2022 20:23

Chaoscontrol · 10/10/2022 20:14

This is what I needed!!

Real, honest, actual answers!!

This is my first month and I'm expecting my body to just 'work' with so much pressure on myself I'd it doesn't happen first time.

Thank you, so so much.
You have no idea the comfort this is giving.

I really hope things are quick for you 😘

Original poster
Chaoscontrol · 10/10/2022 20:14

This is what I needed!!

Real, honest, actual answers!!

This is my first month and I'm expecting my body to just 'work' with so much pressure on myself I'd it doesn't happen first time.

Thank you, so so much.
You have no idea the comfort this is giving.

OP posts:
Aretheyhavingalaugh · 10/10/2022 20:09

First time - 6 months Aged 31
Second time - 3 Months Aged 34

BookHermitBlack · 10/10/2022 20:02

4 years (conceived via fertility treatment) in mid 20s.

LovingLifesHurdles · 10/10/2022 19:55

1 year for my body to start having periods again after being on the pill 10+ years (should have come off sooner as apparently this is common). Then 2 months of actively trying.

First time we worked out that the best way to get pregnant if all is working well is just to have sex every 2-3 days for a month, so that's what we did second time. Happened the first month of actively trying (as opposed to having sporadic unprotected sex).

QueenOfWeeds · 10/10/2022 19:53

About 12 or 13 months but it felt like forever. I was temping/tracking on 3 different apps and on OPK and there was no triangulation/overlap so we booked a private fertility consultation. £500+ later, and I was pregnant, naturally, by the time our test results all came back as normal. I would pay again though, in similar circumstances, just to put my mind at ease.

Brandybucks · 10/10/2022 19:51

We had the bizarre situation of seemingly becoming more fertile with age.

DS1- 17 months
DS2- 8 months
DS3 - 7 months
DS4- first try (I’m not even sure you’d call it trying)

We were fertility tested whilst trying for our first and my husband was diagnosed with a very low sperm count and advised to have ICSI (we didn’t need it in the end) so have no idea what’s happened since then. All I know is all the sperm he does have are clearly male 😆

PinkSyCo · 10/10/2022 19:50

11 months for my first.

justanotherlaura · 10/10/2022 19:48

Cycle 6 was a chemical pregnancy, cycle 8 was the one that stuck, 38 weeks today!

I have short cycles so 8 was only 6 months of trying

Midnights · 10/10/2022 19:46

Three years in and nothing yet - will update if it ever happens 😂

SuperlativeOxymoron · 10/10/2022 19:46

Actually trying trying? 8 months and 3 miscarriages.

After stopping preventing? 3 years and nothing happened until I started tracking ovulation.

yerdaindicatesonbends · 10/10/2022 19:44

About 18 months

SarahShorty · 10/10/2022 19:43

1st month trying, was a chemical.
5th month trying, was a chemical.
I'm on cycle #6, waiting to see if AF shows. Not hopeful this time.

mondaytosunday · 10/10/2022 19:42

Four months. I was 40. Second time again four months (42). Didn't track anything, was just vaguely aware of when mid cycle was and had sex regularly.

blueberry23 · 10/10/2022 19:40

First go with DS.

6 months, two miscarriages TTC #2... currently 4 weeks pregnant 🤞🏽

Pebble3 · 10/10/2022 19:38

Ten months baby number 1
First month (first try) baby number 2
Twelve months baby number 3

TTC2022newbie · 10/10/2022 19:37

I'm on to my 5th cycle now TTC #1 been off the pill for 3/4 years. No positive tests yet 🥺😔

Toottooot · 10/10/2022 19:36

5 years with zero issues found.

MolliciousIntent · 10/10/2022 19:36

First month both times.

bravotango · 10/10/2022 19:36

18 months

SpottyStripyDuvet · 10/10/2022 19:35

5 years!

dmb91 · 10/10/2022 19:35

13 months