Did anyone fall pregnant without tracking ovulation

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I’m going to start TTC but my husband thinks we should just stop using contraception rather than tracking ovulation etc as we know quite a few couples that have been really rigid about it and struggled.

has anyone successfully got pregnant that way ? The conception board had freaked me out and made me worried that just not using contraception isn’t going to be enough but equally I see my husbands point that being super rigid will make it more stressful and stress won’t help either

That is such a funny question, do you really think that the half a million plus women in the UK who give birth every year are all carefully keeping detailed ovulation records 😂

You're already building stress into getting pregnant and you don't even know if you'll have problems. That's really silly and unfortunate. Just stop using contraception, give your body time to regulate if the method was hormonal, and just enjoy having lots of sex.

Yea, almost every pregnancy since sex was invented 😆 You gotta question why the need for contraception otherwise.

Seriously op I get it, I've had an easy "just shagging" first month pg, and a fraught years in the making pg, and it's a big deal to think about. But initially, just get busy for a couple of months and see what happens. Good luck!

Never even thought about tracking my cycle

Yes, five times.

Only one person I know tracked and that's because they tried for several years. Everyone else just stopped contraception and went for it! Sure one is aware of their cycle and may plan it a bit but nothing more than that. I'd just chill and try for a few months before getting tied to a chart.

Pregnant first cycle three times.

We were lucky.

We tracked ovulation properly after 6 months of trying. 4 months later I got pregnant.

Initially we just tried to have sex within my fertile window - turns out the apps out there aren’t very accurate! But I think the general advice is having sex every couple of days is enough. It’s only when pregnancy hasn’t happened that tracking ovulation seems like a good idea - it’s really stressful so I’d advise against it while you initially start trying.

I’ve had 2 children and we just stopped using contraception and let nature take its course . Took 1 month the first time and a couple of months the second .

As others have said most women get pregnant without checking ovulation. My first at 35 took 6 months but we were only living in the same city for half of the week at the time (work kept us apart the other half) Second time two months when I was 38. Despite being a doctor I had never heard of ovulation tracking, normally have a cycle of about 35 days. I think if you start tracking from the very start it makes for a stressful time and that can be a big factor in disrupting normal hormonal rhythm. Stop the contraception, start the folic acid and try and have sex twice a week. I also didn’t do a pregnancy test until at least four weeks late for a period. Another source of stress is being five minutes pregnant then miscarrying - throughout the rest of history (her story) that would just be a slightly late slightly heavy period.

Most importantly OP good luck and enjoy the trying!

I only fell pregnant after I stopped trying to tracked ovulation. 2 years wasted.
Intercourse every three days once my period stopped worked all 3 times within 2 months.

This.

Millions upon millions of people from the dawn of time became pregnant because they had sex.

I'd never even heard of 'tracking their ovulation' before MN, and still never, ever heard anyone say this in real life.

You are ADDING the uptight stress factor.

You are more likely to get pregnant if you aren't stressed.

Outside of people having having problems conceiving I had never heard of women doing all the tracking etc , so MN was a bit of a surprise . When I had mine in 90's it was just getting it on .
My poor GM she got up the duff during the war , a couple of times .

I assumed people only track once it takes awhile? By awhile I mean over a year

Yes

Yes.

Exactly. My grandmother always said that stress and anxiety to conceive were some of the main causes of fertility issues, and I think she was largely right.

You have no reason to believe that you'll have any issue getting pregnant. Don't go looking for problems, and don't add this stress unnecessarily to your relationship. It can also effect men very, very badly.

Why are you still using contraceptives that's so weird if you're TTC

Half of pregnancies are unplanned. And most of the rest occur without obsessive "tracking", just by stopping using any contraception.

I really really don't think this obsessive, rigid, anxious approach to conceiving, with temping and charting and peeing on everything in sight, is healthy for either women or relationships. (And it leads to total stupidity where people knowingly aren't using anything and then are surprised when they get pregnant, because they weren't "trying"!)

You are fundamentally trying to control the uncontrollable. A pregnancy is not something that you can just "do everything right" and it'll happen in the exact time you specify. You have to make peace with the fact that other than having regular sex, it is pretty much out of your hands. And you need to remember to play the long game; you will still want to have a marriage, and a healthy sex life, when the season of "trying" is over.

Yep, exactly this . How on earth did we mange before all these kits and sticks?
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I fell pregnant at 42 whilst on the pill and about two months after hubby's vasectomy!!! I'm not sure if relieved is the right word to use here, but the pregnancy ended up being an ectopic and I was rushed in for emergency surgery on New Year's Eve 2022. I had no idea up until New Year's Eve afternoon i was even pregnant!
So no idea clearly re ovulation and still fell pregnant!

Do you have a regular cycle? If so, it's quite likely you'll be ok just coming off contraception and trying.

I started ovulation tracking because of PCOS and extremely irregular cycles - anything between 3 weeks and 6 months(!) which suddenly meant for the first time I knew when I'd have a period!

Hi op, yes I stopped tracking ovulation when I had my son in 2021. Didn't think I would fall pregnant again.(as I have problems woth conceiving) but I did.had my baby girl Nov 30th.

No tracking for DS

I did track the first month for DD and hit the jackpot first time luckily

It was on my calendar and I had shuffle my friend out of the house soon after DH got home. She knew exactly why because we'd looked at my calendar earlier on together