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DD1: NTNP for a year
DD2: TTC. BFP first cycle, chemical. Tried again next cycle and got another BFP. Voila!

Yes for our 2nd, DD.

In was charting to prevent for 2 years, so I was very familiar with my cycle. When we decide to have kids I asked my husband whether he wanted to NTNP ( I would stop charting altogether and just let things happen) or if he wanted to go guns blazing into it (Temps/charting, OPK's etc.) because I could not handle the middle ground.

My husband chose Option B, being the practical man that he is since he believed it statistically improved our chances of concieving quicker.

Yes, both times.

I voted yes, but it depends on what you mean by "actively--" I didn't temp or do opks or chart aside from using ff to keep track of my period and estimate fertile windows

Yes, after two years TTC, I'm 6 weeks 5 days with our first. Probably our only because I never want to TTC again.

For DD - yes, although not for very long

For DS - I was too afraid of having a second LO to actively TTC, but one night I said "oh, let's just see what happens" when DH reached for a condom. What happened was DS

@mrsjd: congrats! Wishing you a happy and healthy 9 months!

Yes for our first.

I think purposely having sec without protection and hoping it results in a baby counts as TTC, without temping or charting or whatever. I did temp and chart but I don't think that would be required to say you are trying.

It depends on what "actively" means -- I was off BCP and we weren't using any other method of protection. But I hadn't started tracking ovulation or anything. I still feel like that counts as TTC, generally speaking.

DD1, yes.
DD2, no. We were preventing but timing was thrown off, so it was accidentally perfectly timed for pregnancy. Stressful,
But she's been the best surprise!

Yup.

No. LO1 was a happy surprise and LO2 was planned but conceived on our first try.

Yup! We were NTNP for #2 when DS turned 1 years old, but when we still didn't conceive when he was 18 months, we were actively TTC.

Yep, both times. Both kids were completely planned. DS #2 was big time planned because it became about age gap. We had to make a huge decision to have another and make sure that the age gap wasn't too large for our liking.

Yes and we will again in March.

Yes for both When we decided to try for #2 (eeeeeek!) we took a much more casual, NTNP approach in the beginning, but wound up having to be much more "active" about it in the end.

In my mind, NTNP is actively TTC since you're knowingly not using birth control and having sex. I was actively TTC all three of my pregnancies, I wasn't charting but had a pretty good idea of my cycles and when my fertile window was... and purposely had sex during that time.

Sex without protection is trying IMO, so yes we were trying, no temping or anything but trying none the less.

@mrsjyw: DH and I NTNP from April-July, have been actively trying since then. TTC#1.