We tried for a baby for 2.5 years, then went down IVF route and luckily it worked first go, we got our lovely DS who is now 17 months.
I am posting because when we were TTCing and when we were pregnant, we heard and read lots of stories about people trying ages to get pregnant and then getting pregnant super fast after their kid was born or after they had spent all their savings or they adopted, etc.
I do not mind these stories, they are quite entertaining, but it did irk me a little that the basic message behind them was that the reason I was not getting pregnant was somehow my fault; I was too stressed or anxious or something.
Anyway I just wanted to provide my story to counterbablance all the other stories. We have been effectively TTCing (no contraception) for nearly a year and no baby has appeared yet. I am totally relaxed about the whole thing (no symptom spotting, no date watching, no great disappointment when AF arrives like there was last time around). In fact, I am kind of a bit stricken by the idea of a second baby because I feel that I would find it hard to cope (DS is quite full-on!).
You hear those other stories because they make good, eye-catching stories and you do not hear about stories like mine (although there might be just as many similar cases, if not more) because they are a bit, well, boring. It is very easy to have your perception skewed and I am here to reduce the amount of perception-skewing!