Fertility-Infertility Questions for All!

[zebra]

1. How long did it take you to conceive each of your children?
   
2. How old were you?
   
3. What form of birth control were you using when you got together with the child(ren)'s father?
   
4. Have you had problems with recurrent miscarriages?
   
   Answers from all, whether it was easy or hard to conceive! I'll explain the why's of the questions once I get a load of answers.

[pollingfold]

1. 1month; 10months (m/c); 2months (11 wks pregnant)
   2)27;28;28
   
2. Pill
   
3. no. 1 m/c

[Twinkie]

1. 1 month of trying
   
2. 24
   
3. Coil
   
4. No

[Sid]

1)first try every time
2)30, 33, 36
3)condoms
4)no

[mckenzie]

1. one year
   
2. 35
   
3. pill (microgynon 30)
   
4. no
   
   And I haven't been on the pill since birth of first child. Being trying for seocond one for a year. Now 38.

[dinosaur]

1. First child - two months
   Second pregnancy - two months - miscarriage at 8 weeks
   Second child - two months
   Current pregnancy - got pregnant first month of trying.
   
   
2. 33, 35 and 38
   
   
3. Pill originally, came off the pill when I was about 28, then used condoms.
   
   
4. No.

[roisin]

1. 4 months, 1 month
   
2. 27, 29
   
3. pill
   
4. no

[150percent]

1. 4 years for ds1, 8 months for ds2(both eventually conceived through IVF)
   
2. 30, 32
   
3. Diaphragm (no contraception when first dating dh)
   
4. no

[CountessDracula]

1. 3 years
   
2. 36 by the time she was born
   
3. The pill (brevinor)
   
4. No never had one

[Issymum]

1. Tried for two or three years. Never tried IVF. Gave up and adopted.
   
   
2. 37
   
   
3. Met aged 17, so condom, then pill, then diaphragm, then 2 children under the age of 3!
   
   
4. N/A

[Metrobaby]

1. 1st - accident, 2nd - 1st month
   
2. 30,33
   
3. Persona
   
4. No

[Issymum]

Sorry Zebra, I've only just read your second message and realise that I haven't answered the question properly. When I first got together with children's father, I wasn't using contraception at all and didn't need it for another 6 months or so. Both of us were very slow off the mark sexually! Innocent days!

[wilbur]

Very interesting zebra - dh is quite sweaty, but I don't find him offensive in any way, whereas I did dislike the smell of a couple of old boyfriends (and I took a few contraceptive chances with them too but thankfully no pg at those times!) I also definitely get that fancying dh far more when I am ovulating thing, so I reckon hormones probably do know what they are doing when left to themselves .

[zebra]

Some results... only 54 replies, so don't take this too seriously! I didn't try to control for age (not that it seemed to stand out as a predictor). So:
54 women replied.
32 were on usual birth control when they got together with their partner.
Avg. months ttc if you were using any hormonal-type BC when you got together with partner: 4.8.
Avg. months ttc if you were using the pill specifically when you got together: 5.2.
Avg. months ttc if not using hormonal BC when you got together with partner: 12 (unless I take out the only infertile person to reply, in which case it plummets to 4.4).
Miscarriages among those on the pill when they got together with partner: 11 of 57 pregnancies, or 19.3%.
Miscarriages among those not on any hormonal contraception when they got together with partner: 6 among 43 pregnancies, or just 14%.

The sample sizes are very small... but it does seem like maybe those on the pill when they got together ("fell in love", all that) with their partners do take slightly longer to get pregnant, and have slightly more chance of miscarriage. Very small differences, though, really.

I'm just amazed at how fertile most of us are!

[Slink]

1.1 yr
2.me 29 dh 37
3. pill
4.no

[Bozza]

1 3 months, 1 month (currently 28 weeks pg)
2 27, 30
3 condoms (followed by pill after several months)
4 no miscarriages

[wobblyknicks]

1. Don't know how to answer, the pill failed after 3 years.
   2)20
   3)The pill and condoms
   4)No

[M2T]

1)1-3mths of trying
2)22 and 25
3)Combined Pill
4)No

[Kayleigh]

1. 1st pregnancy 2 months (miscarried at 12 wks)
   2nd 1 month
   3rd 3 months
   
2. 35,38
   
3. The pill
   
4. No just one.

[Easy]

1. 12 months (not concerted effort, just no precautions)
   
2. 38 !!!
   
3. Condoms when we got together, pill for the following 6 years
   
4. no miscarriages
   
   Interesting.
   
   (blimey, wasn't I old? )

[Dickers]

1. first time we tried
   
2. 36
   
3. pill (13 years before DS, condoms by the time DS arrived
   
4. No

[mummytojames]

1)didnt try
2)23
3)pill but had to come of because of problems so none i guess
4)1 misscarege previos relationship was try for three year then

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[mothernature]

1. How long did it take you to conceive each of your children? 4mths & 9mths
   
2. How old were you? 25 & 26
   
3. What form of birth control were you using when you got together with the child(ren)'s father? None
   
4. Have you had problems with recurrent miscarriages? No