https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:48:41 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected/page/2#post-830027 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:46:47 +0000 littleredhairedgrl 830027@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@thereeldeal yes there are a lot of options :) my ob was very proactive with us so I am hopeful about this month! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected/page/2#post-829994 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:40:17 +0000 TheReelDeal 829994@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littleredhairedgrl: I have PCOS too and it's daunting but there are a lot of options for us!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected/page/2#post-829944 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:32:13 +0000 littleredhairedgrl 829944@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am 28 and dh is 29, didn't think it would take very long at all.. </p> <p>It's been 6 months and a shock that it is taking this long since we are both young. Now after pcos diagnosis and not ovulating on my own, I realize how tough it can be.</p> <p>Staying positive! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected/page/2#post-821264 Fri, 31 May 2013 08:42:48 +0000 TheReelDeal 821264@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This journey is going kind of how I expected it, though if someone had told me I would have a loss, I probably would have said "no way". Otherwise I knew I would need medical interventions before we even started and I'm going to give them some time to work before thinking that this is taking too long. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected/page/2#post-821230 Fri, 31 May 2013 08:31:53 +0000 Caly 821230@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Definitely not what I expected. I feel as though I had reasonable expectations &amp; took the "could take 12mo" to heart and didn't stress, especially since I'm very healthy &amp; always had normal, healthy cycles. Never would have imagined it would take over 4-1/2 yrs including one m/c &amp; cost enough to feed &amp; arm a small country, due to "unexplained infertility." Thankfully, we're currently expecting twins from IVF so it was all worth it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected/page/2#post-807240 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:20:40 +0000 wheres_c 807240@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I thought we would need more intervention due to my PCOS. (I don't usually see AF for up to a year at a time).<br /> We got pregnant while NTNP.<br /> Then due to my PCOS and thyroid issues, I had a 40%chance of miscarriage. I am so thankful that I didn't have to experience that, nor fertility treatments.<br /> My heart goes out to everyone that does need treatments / suffers a loss.</p> <p>Also, I thought I wanted to be one and done. I am already begging for #2. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected/page/2#post-807131 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:46:12 +0000 Smurfette 807131@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep! I was expecting it to take way longer. We got lucky on the 3rd cycle. I was 33 so expecting it to take at least 6 months. And given I know so many that had miscarriages, especially in my family, I was expecting one of those. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected/page/2#post-807042 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:24:37 +0000 JessKas 807042@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I thought it would take about six months to get pregnant, especially since I had been on a birth control pill a year prior to trying. That pill really messed up my cycle and my body. After getting off it I had long cycles, 34-42 days. They weren't predictable. Instead of taking a while, as soon as my IUD came out I got pregnant, before I even got my period that cycle.</p> <p>Now I know I'm so fertile, I'm going to be SUPER careful after this babe comes. I want 2.5-3 years in between babies. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected/page/2#post-806847 Fri, 24 May 2013 09:25:14 +0000 alleyflowers 806847@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ninja: I love the "fertile myrtle" nickname! I called my friend/co-worker the "fertile crescent" because everytime she just looked at her hubby she got knocked up! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected/page/2#post-806839 Fri, 24 May 2013 09:23:27 +0000 alleyflowers 806839@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It was a little different than I expected. I have always had irregular periods since I was 13... sometimes I would go 5 months without getting a period if I was not on birth control so I expected a difficult time getting pregnant.</p> <p>It took us 4 cycles - which I feel like is pretty average. We were blessed to not have difficulties like I expected. Hopefully we will have the same luck for baby #2!</p> <p>The summer before I got pregnant I was running a TON and even ran a marathon. I 100% expected to be that pregnant running mamma with the big bump up until close to the end.... but after two months of trying to get pregnant gave up on running temporarily. Whenever I ran a lot my periods would get even extra irregular. I'm a thin person so I figured maybe my body fat was too low while running. </p> <p>Now that LO is 7 months I'm trying to get back into running and it's not easy! I know with a little time, I'll get back into the groove.. but probably no more marathons until I have way more time on my hands. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected#post-806828 Fri, 24 May 2013 09:21:00 +0000 winniebee 806828@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I thought I would have a hard time getting pregnant for no good reason - I sort of did. Took 8 months with a miscarriage mixed in.</p> <p>After having a hard time getting pregnant, I thought we would just roll with the punches after baby 1 and try to get pregnant again pretty quickly. Bed rest and a difficult pregnancy changed that. I'm almost 33 and LO is now 12 months and I don't have the urge yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected#post-806814 Fri, 24 May 2013 09:18:11 +0000 ninja 806814@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Definitely took longer than I had expected. Not a hugely long time, but since my sis is a fertile myrtle, I thought it would be much quicker :/ Also, I didn't know a whole lot about my cycles when we started, and as soon as I started temping, it was a lot easier to predict ovulation. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected#post-806794 Fri, 24 May 2013 09:14:32 +0000 yoursilverlining 806794@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't have any real known reason to think it would take us a while to conceive (like PCOS or similar), but I thought it would take several cycles because my husband was 45 when I conceived and has been having the secks for like 25+ years without a single "oops" or even a scare. Because of that, he was convinced it would take us a while. Instead, we literally conceived the first time we didn't use protection, even though I thought the date we did it was a safe date in my cycle. </p> <p>We were extremely lucky. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected#post-806759 Fri, 24 May 2013 09:05:08 +0000 cascademom 806759@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It took us 4 cycles. I honestly thought that we would be like our friends how got pregnant so fast on first tries. It was a hard pill to swallow that you're not pregnant when she's pregnant with her second and lacking all understanding how hard it is sometimes even though ours was easier than most. </p> <p>I still hope that trying for our next LO will be fast since it's coming up soon. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected#post-806735 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:58:16 +0000 GrapeCrush 806735@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>after reading online before NTNP, I was convinced it was going to take a long time. thankfully for us, it was only 3 cycles. we then thought we would wait a year before trying for number 2. then we got our surprise BFP when DS was 7 months old </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected#post-806728 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:57:06 +0000 LuLu Mom 806728@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I went to my yearly checkup on Dec 2011 and announced to my doc that we were going to start trying spring of next year, she warned bme due to my abnormally short cycles that I had a high potential of not ovulating and it could take awhile to get pregnant. </p> <p>After hearing this we decided to start trying Jan 2012 on a trip to the Bahamas (after hearing the news it might take awhile, our urge to become parents hit an all time high), January 28th came and we got our positive. </p> <p>So it came WAY quicker than we expected, we were expecting fertility issues instead of a one and done. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected#post-806719 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:54:54 +0000 rachiecakes 806719@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I thought it would take forever to get pregnant coming off the pill after being on it for 10+ years. My nurse friends warned me that it could take months for my cycle to regulate. I got pregnant the first month after I stopped taking it. </p> <p>I thought for sure we would be one and done and now I'd looove to have another LO. Sadly, I don't think it's in the cards for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected#post-806711 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:53:45 +0000 Mrs. Polish 806711@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PrincessBaby: Absolutely. I didn't think it would take so long, and I didn't think we would adopt first. I thought we would at some point later on. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected#post-806706 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:52:42 +0000 looch 806706@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am an older FTM, and I thought for sure we would not conceive in the first year. I fully expected it to take at least a year to get pregnant. We were successful on our first try and I have a 2.5 year old. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected#post-806698 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:50:30 +0000 Alivoo01 806698@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup because I thought we'd get pregnant pretty easily since I've never been on BC, but it took us a little while. And when we got a BFP, I loss the baby at 8 weeks. It then took us another 4 months before we got our sticky baby. LO is due in August!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected#post-806695 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:49:24 +0000 Boheme 806695@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't expect to get pregnant at all, or at least without lots of help, due to endometriosis. We got pregnant on cycle 2 of NTNP. My mom always had a hard time getting (and staying) pregnant and had several miscarriages, so it took a long time for that fear to go away for me. I thought we'd try for another right away after this one, but I think I'm content to wait a while. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected#post-806671 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:42:07 +0000 ineebee 806671@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't expect it to be easy because I had ovulation issues long ago, but I thought once the medical interventions started that I'd get pregnant right away. So yes, it isn't quite what I expected. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected#post-806654 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:38:02 +0000 Sophia 806654@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So far, it's been different than I hoped it would be...but I also always expected it would take awhile. We've been NTNP for a year, and nothin'. I was really hoping NTNP would work for us, because I know actively TTC might make me a bit batty. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected#post-806635 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:33:16 +0000 pui 806635@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, definitely.</p> <p>I set my expectations to a reasonable level, I thought. I did not expect to get pregnant easily at all. I figured that it would take 5-6 months, maybe even up to a year, where we'd time BD well but still not get pregnant.</p> <p>Well, instead I'm having ridiculously long cycles and not ovulating at all. I likely have PCOS (been to the doctor and we're getting tests to confirm, but he is pretty sure that is what it is). I did not expect that I wouldn't even ovulate at all. I did not expect that I would need to take medication in order to get pregnant... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected#post-806335 Fri, 24 May 2013 01:04:12 +0000 Ree723 806335@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, because I have long, somewhat irregular cycles, I assumed it would take us a while to conceive.....but nope, we got pregnant literally the first time we pulled the goalie. I was shocked!</p> <p>I always thought we'd start trying for our second when LO was six months old as I'm only 13 months younger than my sister and would love to have two LOs close in age. I'm also 33 and want three kids, so I know I don't have loads of time on my hands. Whilst we did stop preventing when LO was 7 months old, I kind of knew we weren't really TTC yet as I didn't have my cycles back due to BF'ing, and I was ok with that as I'm not ready to give up my one on one time with E yet.</p> <p>I'm 11 months pp and whilst my cycles have sort of returned (super irregular though as I'm still BF'ing), I don't think they're going to get back to normal until I wean and I'm ok with that. I had thought I would wean around six months so we could be pregnant by the time E turns one, but I love my time with her so much, that I'm just not really that fussed about when my cycle comes back or when we get pregnant again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected#post-806323 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:40:48 +0000 littlepenguin 806323@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I thought it would take us a while, I was anticipating about 4-5 months until we'd actively start trying (charting timing etc) We ended up getting pregnant the first month off birth control. </p> <p>When I was planning our due date I thought that having a due date close to summer vacation would be ideal. However it turned out having a due date towards the beginning of the year worked out perfectly and I was able to spend more time at home with DS. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected#post-806319 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:21:20 +0000 birdofafeather 806319@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It was way faster than I expected for which I am grateful. I know many people struggling. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected#post-806318 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:20:46 +0000 deerylou 806318@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I thought I would have a whole lot of trouble getting and staying pregnant. My mother had very high risk pregnancies, and miscarriages, and I have the same hormonal imbalance that she does (extremely high estrogen). Surprisingly, we got pregnant without actively trying (an "oops", if you will), and DD's residency in my womb is keeping my hormones at bay, for the first time in my life. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected#post-806283 Thu, 23 May 2013 23:49:47 +0000 PointeShoesTutus 806283@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our path will be significantly different than I thought it would be. My husband and I are carriers for a genetic disorder. TTC the "normal" way is not a good idea for us. We will be TTC with IVF along with PGD. We are only in the beginning stages of researching fertility clinics and getting other testing done. </p> <p>I had also hoped to have more than one child but given my medical issues, it may not be feasible for me to be pregnant more than once. </p> <p>It isn't what I'd envisioned but I'm grateful that the technology is there to make this a possibility. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-ttc-path-different-than-you-expected#post-806278 Thu, 23 May 2013 23:34:48 +0000 Mrs.Someone 806278@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep... I thought it would happen within the first few months, and I never worried about miscarriages. But here I am, still not pregnant, over a year in, and with 1 m/c :P Somehow I still am hopeful though! </p>