To ask you how long TTC took?

[SayenRose]

Just had month 6 of TTC and negative tests still 😞
I know 6 months is nothing really but it is just getting me so down now. I have other DC that were conceived within a month or two but this was from a previous marriage.

I think it just feels like a long time because it is never far from my thoughts. Just feeling really sad at the moment 😞

PG 1 - 7 cycles
PG 2 - 4 cycles
PG 3 - 1 cycle
PG 4 - 2 cycles
PG 5 - 1 cycle
PG's 6, 7 and 8 conceived while taking the mini pill

Thank you for all your responses, I've been at work today but just got home and read all the replies.

It's very interesting to read how long it has taken for others and that I shouldn't be getting too concerned yet.

For info, I'm now approaching 30 and have always had exact 28 day cycles.

DC1 took about 2 months but we weren't really trying.
& DC2 (6 years ago) was conceived the 1st month.

I have considered that it might be DH or my own fertility might have changed. It's just very sad every time I get a BFN now. We just to plan and talk about what we would do 'this time next year' when we have a baby. But I've stopped talking like that now and everyone around me seems to be announcing pregnancies.

I had been tracking with ovulation tests for the first few months, which showed ovulation. But we've stopped using them now. We did get very faint positives in August after our holiday, but my period arrived on the expected day (i had tested a few days early) so I can only assume it was a chemical pregnancy.

Three and a half years, one round of ivf, one miscarriage.
Still not pregnant.
Close to giving up.

4 years when I was age 32. Luckily I only wanted one child

15 yrs for my first. Unexplained infertility. After we got over the massive shock of having a baby we never thought we would have, I fell pregnant again just 2 yrs later.

Fertility is weird. Good luck

Both my babies were one shag wonders at age 34 and 38- I think I was just very lucky. My first child was concieved after a particularly drunken night and I always use the story to try to reassure people that age and alcohol don't necessarily always have a negative impact despite the stuff you read. Good luck OP xx

We were very lucky that all of them took 1-2 months.

9 years, still waiting for BFP.

Have lots of sex and enjoy it. It's super easy to get wrapped up in temping, charting and ovulation pressure sex.

And ignore anyone who gives you stupid advice like 'relax' or 'stop tying and it'll happen'.
In the meantime, life life and don't put off doing things or booking things 'just in case' you're pregnant or have a newborn at that time. I'm cross at how many things we put off because of just in case.

Good luck!

First month of trying with DD, 2nd month of trying this time around.

22 months and still trying. Also aged 30 with 28 day cycles and no issues. Unexplained infertility is the biggest mindfuck ever!!

Sorry. But these threads give and dash hopes at same time. I can tell you of people close to me (including myself) that took from one day to 10 years. All random as far as I know (assuming no intervention). The best advice I heard is that there is no better contraception than ttc😏 I have even heard of women getting a dog (believing they won't ever get pregnant after years of trying) and then bang. Next month pregnant. Relax relax relax (very hard I know). You have my sympathies

1st baby I risky night, 2nd baby about 3 months, 3rd baby 8 months, 4th baby one risky shag! 5th baby 6 ish weeks after having implant removed. I have 28 day cycles and always aimed for day 14.

2 cycles. I have 32 day cycles and aimed for sex 3-4 times a week. On the second cycle I used ovulation sticks and had sex 3 days in a row that they were showing fertile plus every other day throughout the month.

First time I got pregnant the first month we tried, with months of lovingly treating my body like a temple and taking folic acid daily behind me. This time it took ten long months and just when I was thinking no fuck it I'll have a gin & tonic I got a positive test.

7 months with DD1, DD2 was first try. 6 months is not that long but believe me I know it must feel like forever.

4 years and lots of Clomid for ds1. 2 months for ds2.

First month both times.

Fingers crossed for you

Spent 11 months trying with no success so saw GP. Turns out we had some "structural issues" so were given advice about alternative positions for conception. After that 1 month to conceive ds1, 2 for ds2.

My partners dad was conceived after 20 years! Then she found out she was pregnant with him at 5 months gone and he was born two months later.
With me
DD-contraception failure
DS-3 weeks after coming off of the pill.
Good luck

DD took 6 months - I was tracking, legs in the air, prenatal vitamins, timing DTD and everything.

DS took 2 months - and in the 2nd month when I caught we had only managed to DTD once as we were both ill - it wasn't in prime fertility time, I wasn''t taking any vitamins, no lying still and I was still BF DD.

Sometimes there really is no rhyme or reason - sorry.

Hope you get your BFP soon x

I used to limit myself to 'happy week', took bloody months (9, 6, 10, 4). Then we went for the day 1 to day 30 fuck marathon option (feet in the air for 20 mins afterwards too). Goal first time.

6 pregnancies, 2 kids :-(

I recommend the marathon method and several friends report good results. Good luck OP

2 years & fertility treatment (& a mc) for dc1.
Dc2 was a very happy surprise, found out I was pg on dc1's first birthday.

1 (ended in early miscarriage) - first try
Then had a few months of trying with no success. Then genuinely stopped trying because I got a new job and DS1 was an accident, albeit a very happy one.
3 (DS2) - took six months. Was five years older and I was 36 by then so maybe to be expected.

And I do sympathise OP, because the six months of trying for DS2 felt like forever, so I can only imagine the stress of trying for years. We would probably have stopped trying after a couple more cycles and accepted just having one, rather than continue with the stress and the scheduled non-spontaneous sex!