Success stories after 6 months

[Makeafamily19]

I know everyone says it can take up to a year and that's normal, but now going into cycle 7 and feeling more hopeless than ever. I know this isn't that long in the grand scheme of things, but it bloody feels like it! I feel like something is wrong with me and I'm just waiting to get to the point I can get checked (I have very short light periods of 1-2 days and only 23-25 day cycles).
Who out there took longer than 6 months to conceive naturally? Looking for some positivity to keep my hopes up!

Me ..... 9 months for my first, 6 months for the second and the much loved third in the blink of an eye.

Yep, think I was about 9-12 months of TTC. Conceived naturally, all fine & DC2 conceived much quicker. Stay positive, chances are you'll be fine

Close to two years for me for my youngest. Could of gone to the gp but felt selfish given I already had children. I believe up to a year is completely normal.

@Makeafamily19 I conceived on cycle 8, though I did have a mmc. I'm on cycle 7 in the 2ww since my mc now. I've had fertility tests and I'm normal/ healthy! It is annoying but for some people it just takes longer. It took me quite a long time to accept that my "journey" wasn't going to be pregnant by cycle 3 and off I go.

It was cycle 13 for me before I conceived. Any medical professions who've asked me who long we were trying (GP and midwife) both immediately said it was "quite quick" so obviously not uncommon or abnormal. I appreciate it feels like forever though! No medical issues either, and now I have a wonderful 8 month old.

DC1 took 9-10 months. When I commented to my OB/GYN that it had 'taken a while' she laughed and said that was perfectly normal.

I then got pg another 3 times after that within 1-2 months each time.

I know it's frustrating but fingers crossed it happens for you soon.

Thank you for all your comments and keeping my hope alive ❤️ I know I just need to be patient, I think it's just the thought that if something is wrong you just want to know ASAP! I have wanted a baby all my life so I feel like I've already waited 31 years 😂

It took about that both times for me - 6 months, 7 or 8 cycles. Got BFP both times after starting acupuncture. So I'd highly recommend acupuncture!! It could have been a coincidence though

I also got a bfp last time after acupuncture. I've had it again now so fx for me haha.

It's very early days for me but got a BFP last week in cycle 7. We did nothing any different from other cycles DTD everyone 2-3 days in the run up to ovulation and the last time the day before I ov'd and this time it worked. Why it didn't the other 6months is anyone's guess. Keep going it will happen. (Then the worry about MCs starts!!) xxx

@Makeafamily19 It does start to get disheartening at this point, but keep going.

It took me 11 cycles, I remember thinking if it didn't work that cycle I would be making an appt at the docs.

I had previously had a very stressful few months at work, but the month after everything calmed down, we conceived. It was also the month we didn't plan DTD. I realised after, we DTD the 3 days leading to ovulation but that wasn't planned/tracked at all.

It was also the month I had really started looking after myself (physically and mentally). I swapped coffee for fruit teas, I exercised more, went for more walks, got myself organised, decluttered the house, went out with my friends, I really think that all helped.