Average time to conceive

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Hi everyone,

I read on the Baby centre website that c70% of couple who can conceive naturally will do so in 6 months. My husband and I have been trying for 7 months with no luck and I think I'm about to find out that we've not conceived this month. A lot of our friends are getting pregnant at the moment and it's just not happening for us. How long did it take you to conceive? Please don't feel bad about responding if you got pregnant v quick, I just want to hear from other people!

Thanks for any responses!

Those stats sound right. After a year it's 80-odd percent and after 2 years is 90-odd. What's left are the people here.

I would ask MN to move this to the pregnancy boards because most people here haven't conceived at all - or if they have they've subsequently miscarried - - its a lonely angry bitter place to be.

You won't get a very useful answer here as we're all barren!!

This is the infertility board so by definition we can't get or stay pregnant

Echo icy - you're asking in the wrong place

It took me 2 IVF cycles to conceive, miscarried, 2 more IVF cycles to conceive again, miscarried that one. 4 IVF cycles down and no baby.

If you ask on the pregnancy boards you'll get answers from people who are actually successfully pregnant

Hi OP. Generally it can take anywhere between 6-12 months for a healthy couple yet still a lot of healthy people fall pregnant between lathe first year and second.
When I got to 8 month with no bfp, I went to the doctors and told a little white lie that we'd been trying a year to get tests done and the ball rolling. I'd suggest for anyone to do it and then u can always cancel if you get a bfp.
It paid off for me cos now 21 months later still no bfp, and been told I have polycystic ovaries and have now been put on the list for IVF.
I would try posting in the conception and pregnancy boards, as us barren ladies have been well past the 7 month mark. Good luck

I third that you should get this moved. 2.5 years and counting and a miscarriage for us and I suspect everyone else on here has similar stories.

Dc1 - 2 months
Dc2 - 17 months
Dc3 - 7 months

No rhyme or reason to it!

It can be completely random as the poster above has shown.

7 months really is a very very short time to be ttc, even if there are no issues.

However this really is the wrong place for such a question, and it may even upset some of the people on here who have been trying for years. I'd suggest you get it moved to conception. Good luck.

Hi OP, we are just going to move your thread over to Conception.
Thanks.

Dd1 immediately after stopping pill
Dd2 7 months

I don't think there is an average tbh

9 months and only one chemical pregnancy to show for it... :(

Currently giving it a rest (changing jobs) so not trying not preventing. But 8 months of really going for it!

DD - 1st cycle
Currently on cycle 10 of ttc #2 and have had two mc in that time....so very different experiences each time so far!

I fell pregnant cycle 2 and had a mmc. Then it took me a further 3 cycles to fall pregnant again which also resulted in a mc. It then took another 2 cycles to fall pregnant and have DS. I'm now on cycle 3 ttc 2