How long does it take to conceive?

[lucybarnes]

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Hi Lucy got pregnant with dd second month of trying and have been ttfc#2 for nearly three years (mc last march).

So I think how long is a piece of string sums up ttfc

um - it depends... on so much - you can't say really...

some people get pregnant first month - some take much longer.

but - if you want my personal experience:
I am 34, currently 21 weeks pregnant with my first. Before that I ditched contraception 14 months before getting pregnant with this baby. In the time in between then and now - i had an MC after getting pregnant 5 months after trying. Then it took me a further 7 months to get pregnant again.

Have you ever seen this info from baby world?:

The chances of getting pregnant in each cycle vary according to a wide range of factors, but perhaps the most important one is the woman?s age.

For a woman aged 20-25, the chances of conceiving are around 25 per cent for each cycle (that is a one in four chance)
For a woman aged 30-35, the chances are 15 per cent, and thereafter the likelihood of becoming pregnant continues to decline with increasing age
It will take a couple in their early twenties an average of five cycles to conceive
Women in their early thirties will get pregnant, on average, after nine cycles
One in ten couples will take more than a year to succeed in conceiving

Hope that helpful.

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Professor Winston was on GMTV yesterday saying that a lot of couples forget to have sex often enough. Apparently having sex once a month gives you a 3% chance of concieving but having sex 20 times a month gives you a 40% chance. He was suggesting aiming to have sex every 2 or 3 days, but not to time it or get too focused as that can also reduce your chances.

In my case, I had no reason to think I had fertility issues but DC1 was concieved naturally after 20 months of trying (various miscarriages and investigations but no treatment IYSWIM).
DC2 was concieved after a further 30 months of trying, by which time my fertility was so impacted by undiagnosed endometrios and an ectopic pregnancy that we ended up using IVF.

Am currently 30 weeks with dc3 and my expereince has been different with each of them|:

Ds1 - came off pill in Nov, concieved in the April so 4/5 cycles

DS2 - a happy accident - so only took the once that dh was too drunk to remember to withdraw (sorry if TMI)!

Dc3 - took 18 months to concieve

lucybarnes I feel exactly the same as you. I'm 27 and have been TTC #1 for 10 months with no success. Everyone around me seems to fall pregnant at drop of a hat.

My cycles are longer but also quite regular' altough messed up this month.

I've been using Preseed for approx 5 months and have just switched to another brand to see if it makes difference.

I'm also keen to try CBFM as getting obsessed!

Know what you mean I also have lot of time on my hands @ moment and it's defo making the obsessing worse.

Think iggypiggy has a real point, these are the statistics and unfortunately I think I am just one of the unlucky ones who will take longer - fingers crossed not too long though.

Good luck to you this month!

I was going to post 'how long is a piece of string'

However, trying hard to be less silly:

statistically 80% of healthy couples (nothing wrong with fertility of either partner) will conceive in the first year of trying. This means 1:5 healthy couples will NOT conceive in the first year.

FWIW, it took us 5 years to make DS1 (conceived after 1 year of stopping contraception but had 3 MCs before conceiving DS1) but then conceived again within 1 week of stopping BFing when I was less than 6 months post-natal .
Go, figure!! I was the wrong side of 35 at that point.

My considered opinion is that babymaking is very much a lottery. 2 months of trying is on the one hand no time at all, on the other hand can seem like a lifetime.
And you could of course conceive tomorrow....

Good luck!

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