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I'm not in my 30's or TTC to conceive right now, but I am 28 and getting married this fall.  I just was at the gyno the other day and she said we need to consider trying as soon as we can because after the age of 30 the chances of being able to conceive drop significantly!!  This freaks me out because we had initially wanted to wait two years before we even TTC. :(  Apparently as a woman in my late 20's I'm already past the ideal window to be able to conceive anyways.  :(  Just my two cents that I learned recently.

Also take a look at family history, your mom grandma aunt - did they try for years for for less than a month?  "The numbers" can be really misleading - all you want is a baby not to get instantly pregnant five times in a row so the "ideal window" is irrelevant. 

I'm getting married at 32 & I'll prob be 34 when we start to try. I'm with the PP's who say - don't let people freak you out. My mother had me at 42 but my cousin had trouble at 24. Everyone is different.

I'll be 3 months shy of 30 when we get married and won't TTC for at least a year (FI would love to wait even longer!).  I asked my ob/gyn about everything at my last appt, and he told me not to worry about it, that even in their 30s, 80% of women conceive within 2 yrs and of those, 75% within 9 months.  My mom had my younger bro at 35 and my little sister at 41, and my parents had major problems to begin with.  It took them 8 YEARS of activvely trying in their "prime" 20s and eventually taking whatever fertility drugs were available in the 70s to have my older brother.  On top of that, with the incredible breadth of medical assistance options we have now I don't think any of us should start freaking out too much.  My mom still insists the massive stress was the main cause of their 8 yr dry spell because as soon as they gave up and decided to look into adoption, my mom got preggers=)