How long did it take you to conceive and did anything help

We had 3 miscarriages then I had to do daily injections in my fourth pregnancy and had a healthy boy. Then found out I was 20 weeks pregnant with our second boy!

I was going to call this out too but just rolled my eyes and moved on. I conceived cycle 3 and that's when I was starting to stress about it. Ended in a chemical and now in 2ww of cycle 11. I've 'just relaxed' for the last 3 cycles, where's my baby? 😂

3yrs then our boy passed last year and ttc again going into 14months x

Took me 14 months, tracking ovulation the whole time and also did seed cycling which is supposed to balance hormones the final month that got pregnant. Ground them all up and kept in the freezer to stay fresh and just sprinkled a spoon on cereal each morning. May be a coincidence but tell everyone to try it now!

Four months both times in my 40s. Did nothing special other than had sex a few times a week. I was very regular so knew when I might ovulate but didn’t track it as such. Kids are now 21 and 23! Good luck!

Hi, could I ask what you mean by strangely shaped please?

I've been considering a fertilily as I have a tilted cervix.

1st baby - 11 months
2nd baby - 10 months nothing, then i used a fertilily and got pregnant on that cycle
3rd baby - first cycle using a fertilily (sooner than we had in mind!)

This is something which was particularly beneficial to me as I suspect I have a slightly strangely shaped cervix which was causing issues. But amazing results once I did use a fertilily - again, may have just been due to personal circumstances.

Everything is offensive these days.

I didn’t realise this thread was in conception as it came to it from active/new, so I took the thread at face value and answered the question.

It is offensive to post that you got pregnant immediately when someone is clearly struggling. And totally unnecessary.

What worked was using a Mira monitor so that we knew exactly when ovulation was happening and could have sex in the two days before. I also lost two stone in the five months before we actually managed it which I’m sure was a contributing factor.

We unfortunately had a miscarriage but took heart from the fact we proved we could do it after 3+ years! (Didn’t qualify for any NHS help due to age.)

Please don’t try and control what others do.

No, you were lucky, nothing to do with being relaxed. Please don't post on threads like this in the future.

OP that is kindly very little time, especially given it can take a few months for your body to adjust after birth control.
It took us 6 months first time, and got pregnant the first month I used easy @ home ovulation sticks. unfortunately had miscarriage at 12 weeks, then took about 4 months for another pregnancy.
best thing is to keep busy in your life and don't focus on it. a year is normal.

No, there’s been one study that indicated stress might be a factor, which has since been debunked. There’s no scientific evidence that confirms stress impacts conception rate, so let’s stop victim blaming.

3 years including failed fertility treatment.

gave up trying then got pregnant naturally

After two miscarriages at 12 and 16 weeks, in the space of a year, I changed my diet, no caffeine, went to the gym, had womens fertility acupuncture fortnightly, and started using lubricant (called, Yes, which was recommended by someone on mumsnet actually). Then it was around 5 or 6 cycles afterwards i got pregnant.

My first time around, I conceived in cycle 6 (chemical pregnancy) and cycle 7 - both of those cycles I started using a fertility cup, and wondered if that made a difference.

This time, we were shocked to conceive first cycle - used ovulation sticks only, and had sex twice (approx O-5 and O-1).

Although with both DS and this pregnancy, we happened to have sex on days England had a successful world cup match, so maybe that was it 😂

The thing is most people don’t start TTC stressed. I started casually. No tracking. No ovulation sticks etc. Just having lots of sex. After a year of nothing I upped things. Still nothing. I was still hopeful after my first miscarriage that that was just a one off. 5 years later I’ve almost given up. And I no longer track cycles. So no “stress” about ovulation. Still no pregnancy. I’ve had plenty of holidays etc. I no longer avoid booking things “In case” I get pregnant. I just now assume I won’t. And I haven’t. In fact most months now I don’t even think about periods or pregnancy. There’s no tests in my house. I’ve stopped so my expensive vitamins. I drink alcohol when I want no matter where I’m at in my cycle. Still no pregnancy.

No, I wasn’t meaning to be unkind. It is widely recognised that stress is a key factor to fertility issues and when you relax that factor can go away.

What helped after years? Letting go of the stress of trying to get pregnant with constant testing and charts etc.

Also and maybe just a placebo effect but low dose aspirin due to ‘sticky’ blood as you get older. My GP told me to as his wife had multiple multiple multiple miscarriages and his friend who was an obstetrician told her to and she was successful. I’m not a doctor so please seek advise but worked for me and a couple of friends. Good luck.

I'd make sure you have good iron levels as (anecdotally) that can help - ferritin of at least 100 and transferrin saturation of at least 20%.

2 cycles for my first 2 and 1 cycle for my third.

I'm sure you didn't mean to be unkind, you've acknowledged that you were fortunate to fall pregnant first cycle both times. But telling someone who is worried that they aren't falling pregnant to not stress is incredibly unhelpful. It's a very stressful time and implying women aren't conceiving because they aren't relaxed during it is horrible.

Please think about how you phrase this in future.

3.5 years. Currently 5 weeks pregnant after my fourth round of ivf - my viability scan is next week. Tried absolutely every 'trick' known during that time, but it made no difference to us (our infertility is unexplained.) How old are you? It may be worth reaching out to the GP and beginning tests, as the process take time.