How long did it take to conceive?

[nearlymumofone]

Hello.

Just popping by from the conception thread.... I know they say that 6 months is an average to conceive, but I was wondering if I could do a bit of a poll census.

Thank you!

DC1 (mc at 16 weeks) wasn't trying, but was over the moon.
DD1 first time.
DD2 First time.
DC (mc at 6 weeks) Was just starting to think about trying.
DD3 (due Dec) 3mths after mc.

I've had a few very early (days after a positive test) mcs too.

I get pregnant easily, just doesn't always work out. It causes big problems between me and my sister actually, they've been trying for 3 years and she has made numerous comments about how easily I get pregnant, totally seeming to forget the miscarriages.

3 months but unfortunately it ended in miscarriage. It then took another 6 months and almost giving up hope (I was 42 and thought the miscarriage was my one chance) that I conceived my beautiful son who is now 10 weeks old.

18 months. Hope it doesn't take as long next time!

5 years and 3 rounds of ICSI, but got there in the end (due in 2 weeks)

1 cycle for DS
1 cycle for miscarriage
1 cycle for current pregnancy (~8 weeks, not sure exact dates as followed mc).

DH and I are good adverts for the power of correctly used condoms too, as that's all we used for 5 years!

This one - 7 years
Took 6 years to conceive initially (inelligible for any fertility help and my GP's a twunt), but miscarried twice and then took another year to get pregnant again.

DC1 - 2.2 years. MMC at 8 weeks.
DD1 - 2 months
D2 - 1 month

Guess the miscarriage kick started my body and told it how to get pregnant.

1 month for DS1.
1 month for DS2.
I know we have been massively lucky.

1st on unplanned so was fast. 2nd one 5 years get pregnant was giving up hope.

1st go with DS. Had been on the pill for 13 years.

3 months with current bump. Periods returned 14 months after Ds's birth, but were bizarre. Bump conceived in Feb after following the whole temperature charting method. Sonographer reckons more peopel should try it cos it seems to work.

1st pregnancy (miscarried) - 0 and totally unplanned- we were only careless once and it was the wrong time of the month, honest

DS1 - 15 months - following on from the miscarriage above. The mc mucked up my hormones big style.

DS2 - 0 and definately absolutely the wrong time of the month (ahem lesson clearly not learnt from the 1st, but hey, honeymoon baby)

Good luck! I reckon I can only get pregnant when I'm not trying (which is very hard to do). With DS1 I actually conceived him on the day I received the very worst news of my life, and as my wonky hormones had been put down to stress, I thought I would never get pregnant after that.

My pregnancies:

1. 14 months - miscarried
2. 4 months - miscarried
3. 11 months - miscarried
4. next cycle from miscarriage 3
5. next cycle after 1st period while EBF, not deliberately "trying"
6. got pissed and forgot to use a condom so definitely not "trying"

Like ohbabybaby it seems that the harder I tried, the unluckier I was.

Blimey this is all food for thought

Baloon did you have any treatment?

No none at all. I had some tests done but DC1 was on the way by the time the results came in.

If someone had told me when I was in despair after my 3rd m/c, aged 35, thinking I'd never be able to have children: that I'd have 2 kids followed by a surprise baby when I was 43 I do believe I'd have laughed in their face . . . and then punched them in the throat!

I wonder if there is such a thing as a "late bloomer" in fertility terms, and if so, whether I was one.

My Mum says both her Grannies had babies at 48 !!

Thanks, I LOVE stories like yours :)

The happy ending bit by the way, not the horror on the way to the happy ending!

This is great everyone. Thanks for your replies. I'm sure it'll help some on the conception thread who feel it's not going to happen for them.

I'm actually ttc#2 and only 3rd cycle in now, so I'm just starting the journey, but this is all reassuring to read.

18 months with DD1 ( had to ring the hospital and say I don't need that fertility test appointment next week)
3 months with DD2

Balloon - I reckon there is something in being late bloomer fertility wise - lots of our family (sister, cousins, grandma, mum, aunts etc) lhad babies in their late 30s (some planned, some not...) despite fertility problems in their 20s. Or maybe their bodies just needed practice at being pregnant to get going.

9 months to conceive our first - I'm now 17 weeks pregnant. I'm convinced that it was acupuncture that helped things along.

6 months - bang on the average! That was with OPKs, CBFM for 3 months perfectly timed SWI, temping etc. Got preg when I stopped bothering with it all. Next time I wouldn't bother and just Dtd every few days as the docs recommend as I don't think all the stressing over ttc helped at all.

DS1 - first month of trying
DS2 - 16 months including 3 early miscarriages. But he's here now .

1 week. Although we do NFP and I'm fortunate to have no underlying health issues.

Ds1 - happy accident so I suppose 1 month
Ds2- 7 months
Dc3- 1 month (am 7.5 weeks)