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How long has it / did it take you to conceive your first?

  • poll: How long did it take you?
    One shot deal - we got lucky : (45 votes)
    31 %
    within 2-4 months : (42 votes)
    29 %
    6-12 months : (33 votes)
    23 %
    12+ months : (24 votes)
    16 %
    Looking at/Found other alternatives : (2 votes)
    1 %
  1. pelikila

    pomegranate / 3008 posts

    11 cycles with charting and OPKs.

  2. Modern Daisy

    grapefruit / 4187 posts

    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!

  3. sorrycharlie

    hostess / watermelon / 14932 posts

    we got pregnant our 3rd cycle.

  4. Grace

    cantaloupe / 6730 posts

    11 cycles with charting (and was never on BCP, so didn't have to wait for my cycles to regulate).

  5. Alivoo01

    wonderful olive / 19353 posts

    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!!

    I took OPKs ocassionally. No charting.

  6. LuLu Mom

    GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts

    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!

  7. littlebittyhouse

    pear / 1570 posts

    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.

  8. Mrs. Bee

    admin / watermelon / 14210 posts

    with charlie exactly 2 years. had two miscarriages before i got pregnant with him, but then he was a one time wonder.

    olive got pregnant the first month.

  9. Sammyfab

    pomegranate / 3383 posts

    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.

  10. loveletter

    cherry / 123 posts

    After a year of trying unsuccessfully, we started the adoption process

  11. alayaya

    kiwi / 629 posts

    I didn't vote. We're still trying at a year now. 14 cycles.....

    I still have hope that it will happen naturally.

  12. lavender

    grapefruit / 4554 posts

    6 mths of ntnp

  13. .twist.

    pineapple / 12802 posts

    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.

  14. 2PeasinaPod

    pomelo / 5524 posts

    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.

  15. cascademom

    coconut / 8861 posts

    4 cycles. I did OPKs.

  16. PurplePumps

    pomegranate / 3809 posts

    5 months, 2 cycles and still trying.

  17. LindsayInNY

    bananas / 9229 posts

    In the middle of cycle 2 and trying!

  18. littlek

    GOLD / squash / 13576 posts

    We had just started NTNP and got pregnant right away.

  19. MrsTiz

    cantaloupe / 6800 posts

    Almost 11 and still trying.
    We had a miscarriage after 5 months.

  20. stargal

    pomegranate / 3890 posts

    2 months but then we lost the baby. after that it we got pregnant our 2nd month of trying.

  21. Caly

    nectarine / 2765 posts

    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.

  22. MsLipGloss

    GOLD / pineapple / 12662 posts

    6 months, 5 cycles (I used a CBE Fertility Monitor)

  23. irene

    nectarine / 2964 posts

    4+ years. No intervention.

    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.

    Right when I gave up and I accepted that it is OK to be a childless woman, it happened.

  24. MrsCastro

    persimmon / 1491 posts

    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...

  25. JoJoGirl

    cantaloupe / 6206 posts

    6 cycles with temping, OPKs, and then the CBEFM.

  26. Arden

    honeydew / 7589 posts

    Second cycle. We were blessed.

  27. yerpie110

    nectarine / 2771 posts

    First try, we got lucky!

  28. Dandelion

    watermelon / 14206 posts

    It took a year and a half of charting and 2 cycles of clomid to conceive ds.

    DD is a (happy) surprise! Dh and I weren't being careful, cause we thought I would have issues again...nope!

  29. antsmom

    pea / 23 posts

    It took me five months to get pregnant with my first. We have been ttc our second since this past January.

  30. Mrs Green Grass

    pomelo / 5628 posts

    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.

    It took us 20 months and IVF.

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