How to ensure first month pregnancy?

[FirstMonthCertainty]

I have read about various statistics, like, 30% odds of a 1st month pregnancy, and 60% odds of pregnancy within 6 months.

But there is no context on these statistics, i.e. how often were the couples having sex?

I feel as if, maybe they didn't achieve it within 1 month because they simply weren't having sex often enough.

So, if I were to have sex every day, or every 1-2 days, then I am ensuring that there will be sperm ready in time for the crucial 5 days before ovulation.

Simply having sex every day will ensure the sperm is there.

So if I were to do that, is there any possible reason that pregnancy wouldn't be achieved within the 1st month...?

So long as our diets and health are OK, and we are both fertile, are you aware of any reason it would take longer than 1 month?

Thanks

[SpunBodgeSquarepants]

Fuckinell, wish you'd been around 29 months ago when I started TTC, OP - you'd have saved me so much time and heartache.

[AmysTiara]

Travel arrangements was exactly what I thought when I read your op.

[BriechonCheese]

I'm wondering if Travel Arrangements is a contender for a Baby Names thread?

[KatharinaRosalie]

Well, OP, you clearly have it all figured out. Give it a go and see you on Pregnancy board in a month, yes?

[FourForYouGlenCoco]

Well OP, you'd like me, I've conceived pretty damn quick every time we've tried. Unfortunately I've also had 3 miscarriages along the way, which frankly buggered my travel arrangements.
I really hope it takes you at least a few months of doing everything 'right' - not a long time, because I would never wish that on anyone, but just long enough for you to pull your head out of your arse and grow the fuck up before you start parenting. And incidentally, don't try and teach your kid biology.
But I dont think you're legit anyway, so hey ho.

[surreygirl1987]

Harsh reactions to OP' s questions, guys! Fairly reasonable questions for someone who clearly doesn't know much about ttc (yet)!

[Mayhemmumma]

Oh dear. Good luck with your TTC journey.

Silly me for doing it wrong.

[haba]

Travel arrangements????
Maybe you should have started TTC earlier if you were on a schedule?

Please don't reproduce, OP, poor child trying to fit into your plans all the time. Imagine if you got a baby that doesn't sleep...

[CottonSock]

I read these statistics, my body didn't.
Try ovulation sticks.. and maybe grow up a bit

[cricketqueen]

Honestly it is just luck like a lot of things in life. It took me 18 months to get pregnant with dd pretty sure I had a chemical pregnancy before that. Now other than a slightly longer than normal cycle there was nothing medically wrong with me. We dtd every other day, still took 18 months. Get a biology book and read it as telling people if they had just tried harder they would have got pregnant straight away is a pretty shitty thing to say.

[sauceyorange]

Good grief. Keep digging OP

Btw 20% each month does not mean that after 5 months you have a 100% chance of being pregnant. Just in case you were wondering how probabilities worked

5 x 20 is 100. In case maths is another weak point.

Sorry, couldn't resist

[NeverForgotten]

I got pregnant on CD9 and CD 20 when actively ttc. Maybe we were just lucky we dtd very often Definitely wasn't just a 5 day window.

[SoozC]

OP - There are no ways to ensure pregnancy in month one.

The statistics will be based on couples actively ttc, ie. having sex at the right time.

Make your plans but be prepared to cancel them. Otherwise, don't make them. Or maybe now isn't the right time to start ttc?

I really hope you're not in my shoes 20 months down the line.

[DrinkFeckArseGirls]

The OP clearly has the insight that all the other stupid overwait sauna loving people don't. If only they tried harder, be as clever as the OP!

[DrinkFeckArseGirls]

Tbf going by experience the sure way of getting pregnant straigt away is when you're not after getting pregnant 😬

[DeadButDelicious]

"I feel as if, maybe they didn't achieve it within 1 month because they simply weren't having sex often enough."

You are a special kind of goady fucker aren't you?

[MamaOfTwos]

What an insensitive bitch you are OP.

Maybe it'll take you a year or more to get pregnant and you'll 'get it'

Maybe you'll lose all the babies you conceive like some of the poor souls on here

You have no control over your biology and your post is goady and insensitive.

[Stickaforkinimdone]

This is just such an odd thread

[MissBax]

Travel arrangements 😂😂😂😂😂

[CountFosco]

The recommendation is to have sex every second day all through your cycle. I won't waste your money on ovulation sticks, is it really that much of a hardship to have sex with the man you love regularly? I think it's good for a couple to have lots of sex during TTC because you'll have a drought of sex once the baby comes. Good to build up the memories in advance .

[Ecureuil]

DC1... 13 months of trying. Including temp tracking, OPK’s, taking pre natal vitamins, healthy weight, gave up alcohol, etc
DC2... still BF-ing DC1. On the mini pill. Had sex once in a month, after a few glasses of wine (my birthday). No vitamins, slightly overweight as hadn’t lost my baby weight from DC1.

Pure luck.

[LisaSimpsonsbff]

I really hope it takes you at least a few months of doing everything 'right' - not a long time, because I would never wish that on anyone, but just long enough for you to pull your head out of your arse

She probably won't though. She'll fall this month and be smug forever about having done it 'right'. Because, as another three-time miscarrier (solidarity) I have learnt a) babies aren't given out on merit - indeed, at points it feels like quite the opposite and b) the fertility gods are dicks.

[Bubbinsmakesthree]

Buried somewhere in the idiocy of the OP's question is a reasonable assumption that many people get better at TTC the longer they have to try.

For me on month 1 we just chucked out the condoms and continued as before. After 12 months with no joy I'd read the books, spent months temp charting, doing OPKs, looking at cervical mucus and treating sex like a military exercise. No doubt by month 12 my odds were better than they were in month 1 because we'd done everything to maximise our chances. But make no mistake - it is still mostly factors outside of your control and pure luck that will determine when and whether you fall pregnant.

It's hard to say with any accuracy how much difference it makes to your chances to be doing everything 'by the book'. But in even if you've got no underlying fertility problems and are doing everything to maximise your chances, there is still likely to be more chance of not conceiving than conceiving in any given month.

[NimbleKnitter]

It’s not luck - it’s basic statistics.

Like the odds of rolling a 6 on a dice - you’re way more likely to get a 6 if you’re given three throws than if you’re given one.

The more you try, the more likely you are to conceive. Maths.

But the odds each month aren’t the same for everyone - again, not luck. A 21 year old non-smoker will have a better chance of getting pregnant than a 40 year old smoker. The 21 year old will have better quality eggs, better able to replicate and form a viable blastocyst.

[Bubblegum89]

Sorry but this thread Jesus H. I mean, I wish OP had been here when I first started ttc to tell me to have sex around ovulation, I knew I’d been doing something wrong.

Why do I have a feeling OP will be one of those people who gets pregnant first time and comes back to tell us all how she was right and the probable millions of women who suffer with fertility issues are just doing it all wrong lmao bloody hell. Have sex more. I genuinely can’t figure out if it’s a pisstake