https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:39:55 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-615531 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:30:18 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 615531@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love that this list shows so many people who took awhile. ( nit happy that it's not easy for everyone.) sometimes these threads are like 90% right away - this one seems really realistic.</p> <p>It took us 20 months and IVF. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-615443 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:58:22 +0000 antsmom 615443@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It took me five months to get pregnant with my first. We have been ttc our second since this past January. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-614216 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:13:06 +0000 Dandelion 614216@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It took a year and a half of charting and 2 cycles of clomid to conceive ds.</p> <p>DD is a (happy) surprise! Dh and I weren't being careful, cause we thought I would have issues again...nope! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-614212 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:11:49 +0000 yerpie110 614212@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>First try, we got lucky! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-614204 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:08:08 +0000 Arden 614204@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Second cycle. We were blessed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-614197 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:06:03 +0000 JoJoGirl 614197@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>6 cycles with temping, OPKs, and then the CBEFM. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-614155 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:52:35 +0000 MrsCastro 614155@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we are going 9 months...we were lucky enough to get pregnant on the first cycle but sadly it ended in a miscarriage...and we are still trying... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-614143 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:48:05 +0000 irene 614143@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>4+ years. No intervention.</p> <p>Well, actually I did went to the doctor after 1 year and did multiple tests. Removed an endometrial polyp twice. But we didn't go the IVF...etc. route.</p> <p>Right when I gave up and I accepted that it is OK to be a childless woman, it happened. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-596858 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:14:13 +0000 MsLipGloss 596858@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>6 months, 5 cycles (I used a CBE Fertility Monitor) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-596856 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:12:26 +0000 Caly 596856@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Still trying. So far, approx 4.5 years. Many tests (diagnosed as Unexplained Infertility), a couple procedures/surgeries, Clomid, Femara, IUI's, Follistim and one miscarriage we're now currently in the first (and hopefully only) cycle of Shared Risk IVF. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-592755 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:21:23 +0000 stargal 592755@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>2 months but then we lost the baby. after that it we got pregnant our 2nd month of trying. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-592628 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:24:54 +0000 MrsTiz 592628@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Almost 11 and still trying.<br /> We had a miscarriage after 5 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-592093 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:05:09 +0000 littlek 592093@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had just started NTNP and got pregnant right away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-592088 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:01:06 +0000 LindsayInNY 592088@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In the middle of cycle 2 and trying! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-592079 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:57:25 +0000 PurplePumps 592079@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>5 months, 2 cycles and still trying. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-592061 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:50:00 +0000 cascademom 592061@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>4 cycles. I did OPKs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-592035 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:39:04 +0000 2PeasinaPod 592035@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>8 months, then miscarried, then again at 16 months and miscarried again. Third time was a charm for us and got pregnant at 18 months after we first started TTC. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-592026 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:35:09 +0000 .twist. 592026@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>First try. I went off BC just to get on some sort of schedule/routine/ntnp with it and bam! We were so very lucky. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-592024 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:33:54 +0000 lavender 592024@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>6 mths of ntnp </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-592016 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:31:19 +0000 alayaya 592016@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't vote. We're still trying at a year now. 14 cycles.....</p> <p>I still have hope that it will happen naturally. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-591556 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:16:03 +0000 loveletter 591556@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>After a year of trying unsuccessfully, we started the adoption process :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-591333 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:21:25 +0000 Sammyfab 591333@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>After 2 cycles. The first month we just jumped right in and DTD whenever and the second month I temped and calculated when I would be ovulating. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-591273 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:06:38 +0000 Mrs. Bee 591273@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>with charlie exactly 2 years. had two miscarriages before i got pregnant with him, but then he was a one time wonder.</p> <p>olive got pregnant the first month. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-591264 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:04:58 +0000 littlebittyhouse 591264@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>2nd cycle. Charting, OPK and DTD every other day. With DH's busy season we only had a few birth months in mind so that he could spend time with LO before he was working insane hours. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-591222 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:49:31 +0000 LuLu Mom 591222@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>First try, we were in the Bahamas and decided to pull the trigger even though I wasn't supposed to be ovulating....but I guess I was! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-591212 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:46:54 +0000 Alivoo01 591212@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>4 months with our first BFP, but didn't stick. Then it took another 4 months when we got another BFP, but it's been sticky!! </p> <p>I took OPKs ocassionally. No charting. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-591199 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:44:37 +0000 Grace 591199@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>11 cycles with charting (and was never on BCP, so didn't have to wait for my cycles to regulate). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-591175 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:39:54 +0000 sorrycharlie 591175@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we got pregnant our 3rd cycle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-591167 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:38:18 +0000 Modern Daisy 591167@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It worked on our second cycle trying, but we started using Clomid right away since I found out I wasn't ovulating before we were even ready to start TTC. I consider myself very lucky that I was referred to a RE months before we even wanted to start trying, because they took months to test us for everything under the sun before we could start! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-has-it-did-it-take-you-to-conceive-your-first/page/2#post-591089 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:04:23 +0000 pelikila 591089@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>11 cycles with charting and OPKs. </p>