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I've been really curious about how this falls out. Growing up I always assumed that I would have no problems getting pregnant. My mom told me that she has gotten pregnant every time she didn't use protection (best way to promote abstinance in a teenager, BTW!), family and friends never had problems, etc. It wasn't until just within the last year or so that I realized it's not always as easy as it appears. So now of course I'm afraid that we might have trouble with it when we get to that point. It's quite irrational but fears like that are rarely anything but.
I have three children. The first two times, I got pregnant the first month that I stopped taking birth control pills. The third I conceived while on birth control, though I had missed several pills in a row. I was over 30 for all three.
I don't know how typical that is. This should be an interesting poll.
I got pregnant about a month after getting off the pill so I got pregnant 2 weeks after the wedding.
I got pregnant our first month of trying but 7 months after going off of *hormonal BC
First cycle here... At 38 years old, no less... after being told it would be difficult. :)
I answered for my sister (I love polls, what can I say? lol). Anyways it took her about 3-4 months and she was 28 when she conceived.
We actually weren't trying, and everything happened naturally for us. We figured that if we got pregnant that we got pregnant, but if we didn't we can always keep trying. :) Of course, I am about to be a second time Mom. The first time I got pregnant now, that took a LOT of time. I am talking for probably 2 1/2 years.
We are going to start trying next month and the results of this poll are definitely getting me excited!
I wasn't on any birth control for at least a year before we started to actually try and once we did we got lucky in month 2.
I am commented based on my sister's experience. She went off birth control and within a month was pregnant. But she had a miscarriage at around 8 weeks. It took her about 9 months after that to get pregnant again. She is 30 and due in November!
I was 41 and conceived less than a month after we started TTC. I miscarried at 10 weeks, but then got pregnant again just under 3 months later. 21 weeks now and everything looking good!
I got pregnant the second month of trying, after I had been off BC for about 8 months...the first month I went by my Dr.'s orders to have sex "only during certain times...when I might be ovulating"...blah, blah, blah...the second month I threw caution to the wind :) we were like jack rabbits!
@Andrea - Just curious why did the Dr. say to only have sex during the times you were ovulating? What's the harm in sex all the time?
well he never said "only have sex during these times"...he just said XXX days are the times when you are likely to get pregnant, and that we should definitely have sex during XXX days because I would be ovulating during that time...basically saying we could have sex anytime, but the likelyhood of me getting pregnant after I ovulated is nil...
but after the first month of me trying that, I figured I was too stressed counting days and trying to time stuff out right, blah, blah, blah...so I just said eff it and didn't think about it...until I missed my period :)
Ohhhh.....Ok. Just curious because I've heard, though I don't know the truth, that there's a build up time needed for the ammo to be reloaded so if it's too frequent they might just be shooting blanks on fertile days. But again I don't know the truth to that.
@troubled - There was a similar theory that I heard from doctors too, that you should have sex about every other day rather than every day, but I believe that may be bogus now. Not sure though.
We got pregnant on the first month after stopping the pill, and we didn't really want to "try" for a few more months, so we were really shocked since I thought I would always have problems.
this poll def. does not represent the experience of my group of friends. so those that are worried that it is taking them "too long" please don't think that! My friends ranged from 1 month to 1 year and it was a pretty good distribution on both sides....
before we started planning a wedding I got off birthcontrol.. I was off for about 3 months and nothing... We didn't track anything though (apparently some people have to track their ovulation dates) nothing happened.. then we decided to wait and get married first.. but i have already stopped taking birthcontrol... still not tracking but hoping for it to "happen" after we get married
im speaking for my cousin.. they got married the end of last may and immediately went of BC. they never officially started "trying"- as in they weren't counting days or paying any attention to when to do what. they figured, for now, if it happened it happened and if it didnt they would work harder at it when they decided they wanted to. they just made the announcement a few weeks ago they are due the end of Nov! so it took them 8-10 months!
I voted for my sister. She is 29, in her first trimester, and tried for 2 1/2 years before it finally happened. I agree with Janna19 that this survey does not jive with my friends' experience - I would say they also range, 2 mos to a few years. (I'm 31, most of my friends have started trying in their early 30's.) But most end uo taking a year or so. I'm jealous of all you one month ladies - we are at 6 months trying and just trying not to think about it too much.
@troubled yeah that's basically what my Dr. told me...to wait a couple of days after the end of my period to build up the sperm then to have sex every other day for about 10 days to cover my bases for ovulation. I'm super regular so he figured If i'm a 28 day gal, my likely ovulation is day 14 so he said X days are the days we should be trying...
but after the first month of tracking and counting and all that stuff, sex wasn't fun for me...it was just a "way to get pregnant" so I was like forget this...i'm going back to our sex life and see how that works out for us...and it did :)
@troubled we just met with my doc today for "preconception counseling" she said that it takes 72 hours for men to make new sperm. So you want to have a "fresh" batch . . .
And this poll and comment sseem to go right along with what she was saying that most of her patients (like myself: 37 with PCOS) get pregnant in the first couple months after going off the Pill. I was surprised (happily - I don't like life sans Pill) that it seems to be true for many.
Addendum to above ... we didn't chart or count days or anything. We used, in my husband's terms, the "Bomb Germany" approach. We figured if that didn't work for us within 6 months, we'd try charting. I'm surprised at the poll results, because I would not have expected so many people would conceive so quickly. Granted, I have a lot of young, otherwise healthy friends who had/have fertility problems, so maybe that's colouring my perspective. I was personally quite shocked I conceived right away, especially at my age.
We got pregnant the 1st or 2nd time we didn't use any protection. We also weren't trying but not preventing if you know what I mean..
I'm 38, was charting and got pregnant first time having sex during fertile window. Miscarried nearly right after, then few months later tried during the window and got pregnant again the first cycle. Some people I know took longer but they weren't charting. I know 4 friends who haven't been able to conceive in their 30's and tons more who had kids well past 35.
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For those of you that were trying, how long did it take to get pregnant? For those of you where is took longer that a year, was it some sort of medical reason or did it just not happen in the first year?