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After a year of TTC I started seeing a fertility doctor. She didn't find anything wrong and diagnosed me with unexplained infertility. I did an IUI and then my doctor moved practices and I had to change doctors. Did 3 more IUIs and a round of IVF. After the failed IVF I asked my doctor what she would do differently on a second round and she said nothing. I got a second opinion and found a doctor who was interested in finding the reason for the infertility, and who looked at my first round and suggested some treatment changes. Mainly he suggested having a hysteroscopy to resect a septum in my uterus. Two months later I got pregnant naturally, but had a miscarriage at 6 weeks. I did 2 more IUIs, then had another hysteroscopy to further resect the septum, then 2 more IUIs, then a second IVF. Four eggs, only one made it to transfer, and we had our baby boy five and a half years after we started trying. When he was 17 months old I got surprise-pregnant with our second son.

Tried for a year to get pregnant with DS1. During that time I had a laparoscopy and it was found that I had stage IV endometriosis. I was also diagnosed with a luteal phase defect. I finally got pregnant after my first round of clomid.
I got pregnant using clomid again with my DD, and am currently pregnant with DS2 after using vitex. So basically, once we figured out my issues, it's been much easier.

IVF was how we managed - lots of IVF!

#1 was 2 fresh rounds, 2 transfers. She's 3.5!
#2 was 3 fresh rounds, 8 transfers - and is two weeks old tomorrow.

Tried for 9 months with no luck before DH was diagnosed with male factor infertility. He saw a urologist and had surgery to repair a varicocele. We did two IUIs with the urologist that didn't work. We started seeing an RE and he was diagnosed with a translocation. We did an IVF cycle and got 6 embryos. The first two transfers failed. I got pregnant on the 3rd transfer with our final two embryos but miscarried. We decided to decided to go with donor embryos instead of more IVF. Four years after we started trying I got pregnant on my first EA transfer cycle. DD just turned one. We have one embryo left frozen and are going to go back to our clinic for an FET next year.

@tequiero21: what?! Congrats!!!
@jaguar: and now I'm off to find your announcement!! How did I miss that?!

Diagnosed with endometriosis in my early 20s and had laparoscopic surgery two years before my wedding.

We tried naturally for 6 months then went to RE.
After 12 more months, lots of iuis, and 1 round of Ivf we got pregnant with our son (so 18 months total).

For number 2, got pregnant naturally 1st month of trying but it was a chemical, had 2 failed FETs (one was a blighted ovum), a fresh retrieval and 18 months later we finally had a successful FET that resulted in our second son who is now almost 6 months.

18 months just seems to be our lucky number!

We got ku'd in one cycle with DD when I was 36. Due to health issues with DH we put off trying for #2 until 2015. Began trying again and after 5 months no luck were referred to RE due to my age (38 about to be 39). Testing showed DOR, low AMH, high FSH. Did 3 rounds of clomid/injectables/TI, no luck. Did 2 rounds of meds/IUI, no luck. Decided to stop all treatment bc it was so draining. Got ku'd naturally first non medicated cycle.

We tried off and on for a little less than two years (with DH travel schedule we didn't always hit the fertile period) before being referred to an RE. First RE did blood work, semen analysis, and HSG, found nothing wrong, did two rounds of clomid, unmonitored. Weren't happy with our service at that RE so went to another RE, he repeated some testing and looked over our records from previous RE and diagnosed us with unexplained IF and encouraged us to do an IUI with clomid. DH sample was horrible for our IUI so we got a repeat analysis taken and he had bad morphology. Doctor didn't think that would affect our chances but we decided we'd rather put money into IVF rather than more IUIs, signed our IVF papers and found out a week later we were expecting our miracle DS with no interventions, he is now 20 months.

The last month or so DH has had some health issues and it turns out he has low-potassium issues which may be affecting his fertility. Going to do another SA soon to see how his levels are and decide if we will need interventions to try again. We are wondering if his potassium has always been low and if that's the reason it took us so long for round one.