We weren't trying, but we weren't preventing...

tree_stump · October 2009

It just happened. Naturally. How about you?

proud-mommy-to-be · October 2009

HELLA surprise!

mrs.schwery · October 2009

It was the same with us. (sorry, lurking from 0-3, our board is super slow)

AJluvsLI · October 2009

same here. We just figured we were ready if it happened so I would go off birth control and we would see where things led.

Tonya_G · October 2009

A couple thousand in ultrasounds, drugs and doctors visits. Thanks for reminding me how inferior my body is.

Alyssajoy87 · October 2009

We definitely weren't trying and we were preventing... except for one night when I just so happened to be ovulating. Four weeks later I POAS and we discovered that it really does only take once! Wink

We couldn't be more excited about how things turned out though!

jessicaclare · October 2009

A round of clomid for both of my pregnancies. We're really, really lucky, it could have been so much harder.

micd07 · October 2009

Not trying, not ready... Total surprise!

wallycat · October 2009

We had stopped preventing, thinking since my sister has been trying for 3+ years and my mom had trouble getting pregnant with my sister and I that it would take a while. 6 weeks later we were pregnant - and surprised - and SCARED! My sister has not spoken to me since.

Brooke208 · October 2009

Pretty much the same with both babies. And both only took one time of not preventing. We got married after we had DS (February of 09) and knew we wanted another. But we didn't expect to get pregnant on our wedding night. Of course we were more than happy!

mybabyloveonline · October 2009

we were trying. i got pregnant on our first month. most people think he was an accident because we got pregnant 2 weeks after our honeymoon. most people don't understand that people want kids right away.

mb~zf · October 2009

Upteen cycles, hsg, clomid, iui's... lots o'fun. Lots.

GINBLOSSEM · October 2009

Weren't trying, weren't preventing either because I have been diagnosed with PCOD (PCOS) and told that I don't ovulate naturally. With my first 4 pregnancies (lost 2) we used Clomid. Our 5th pregnancy (3rd child) was a huge surprise because I did ovulate naturally, but I was told it was just a miracle. I was pregnant naturally again last year (6th pregnancy) but had a miscarriage at 15 weeks. We were surprised and excited to find out we conceived naturally again (this pregnancy), but we won't assume that I don't ovulate any more!

bandwife · October 2009

8 months of temp taking, ovulation strips, etc.

We had just been booked in for appointments at a fertility clinic when it happened. I've had chronic ovarian cysts and had a feeling it would take us a while or we would need help. Really lucky and blessed it happened for us without the years and expense I have seen/heard of a lot of people going through,

stephanielynn33 · October 2009

Same. We're trying, but surely weren't trying not to either Stick out tongue

mrs_sherod · October 2009

I stopped taking bcp at the end of January, got a really light cycle in February (one day, spotting, no pad or tampon needed), got another really light cycle in March...then NOTHING in April. Tested and presto...pregnant! I was soooooooooooooo surprised! Def thought we wouldn't get pregnant until about October of this year.

stephanielynn33 · October 2009

Same. Weren't trying, but surely weren't trying not to either Stick out tongue

.DietDrPepper. · October 2009

my IUD dislodged and got stuck in my cervix. i didn't know. make way for spermies.

alatchaw · October 2009

Total surprise.... actually took about 24 hours to let it all sink in and now I don't think either of us could imagine it any other way!

beckypooh03@yahoo.com · October 2009

We just started trying and got pregnant right away! Almost felt unprepared cause I didn't think I'd get pregnant so quickly!

lifesadance · October 2009

12 mos. TTC (under the care of my RE) and the month that my insurance will FINALLY pay for infertility treatments, we get BFP. I was shocked! Had pretty much resigned to the fact that it might NEVER happen and then... HELLS YEAH!!! BABY TIME!!!!

benifer224 · October 2009

We just got caught up in the moment and well #3 is on the way. We were going to start trying again in may.

whit022109 · October 2009

we were trying to avoid, but once we got over the initial shock..i got pregnant exactly 1 month after our wedding, we were ecstatic. God had other plans!

SamsMom91 · October 2009

I miscarried in 2006 after conceiving on the Ortho Evra patch. Went over to the pill shortly thereafter. DS (born 2/28/08) was conceived while on Ortho Tricyclen. Having given up completely on hormonal BC, DH and I went to condoms. DS #2 (currently 35 weeks pregnant) is the product of those labors--and we were religious and did not break one.

Obviously God's plan is different than ours! (Not that we mind, of course!)

epphd · October 2009

Tonya_G:
A couple thousand in ultrasounds, drugs and doctors visits. Thanks for reminding me how inferior my body is.

Seriously. Almost 4 years, 5 IUIs, 5 IVFs, 1 egg donor, close to $50K, hundreds of shots and ultrasounds. Neato.

Saran · October 2009

Same here

Jalynn06 · October 2009

We were told after my surgery last October that we have PCOS & Adenomyosis and that conceiving on our own without meds was going to be impossible. So we had decided that our 3 sons were enough. In late March we got pregnant and here we are today, due Christmas Eve with our only daughter. We call her our Christmas Miracle. Big Smile

ndecker78 · October 2009

OMG

mb~zf I am in love with your costume, mmmmmmm bacon!

kbird426 · October 2009

took 12 months...more than 12 cycles (i have short lp) ....a sperm analysis that came back abnormally shaped... lots of charting, got my bfp after we decided to "take a break" from ttc - go figure

frf1537 · October 2009

I was actually on BC when it happened (and my husband was paranoid and usually used condoms, it only took us one night when we were out and he didn't care). I had recently been diagnosed with bipolar and the meds I was on were not working for me. So I talked with my grandmother who is also bipolar to see what she was on. I suggested it to my doc and he said we would give it a shot. Well he obviously didn't read the side affects of the drug too closely because when I found out I was pregnant I read up on the meds to see if I should continue taking them while waiting to see my OB and it said that they can counter act the effects of BC. I was happy because I had wanted kids for a while (not the perfect timing with the newly diagnosed bipolar but whatever) but my husband freaked, he even questioned if it was his (I don't blame him since we had only gone that once). But he has settled into the idea and is looking forward to meeting his little girl.

hopingforababyin09 · October 2009

We were kind of trying. I had just found out about charting. I had charted half of one cycle the month before. My first offical charted cycle was the one that we got our bfp from. We were so excited, but really scared because I had already had one mc less than a year before that.

mnparks@gmail.com · October 2009

tree_stump:
It just happened. Naturally. How about you?

Same Here!

elana80 · October 2009

DD1 was a complete surprise-conceived on the patch. I expected pregnancy to come easily the second time around, but it took six months of charting and OPK's.

MiraclePending · October 2009

I was on BC and wasn't very good about taking it every day. Total surprise but a happy one

gaijinmama · October 2009

Same with us. I figured it would take a little while to get pregnant and we really weren`t going at it like bunnies either. Took about 4 months after going off the pill, a bit of a surprise but not unexpected either.

IDFarmer'sWife · October 2009

I went off BC in late December because we were planning on trying in June so we were just using condoms. Well one night we got caught up in it and didn't use a condom and I happened to be ovulating. Got our BFP in April! A happy surprise for sure.

jelina · October 2009

I was on BC, we were definitely trying to prevent it. Two jobless college grads. well I was still school actually, We were VERY surprised. It took me a while to get over the shock. Now, I can't imagine it any other way and I am so happy to be having LO.

etude de la vie · October 2009

After our wedding my OBGYN said it takes an average of "6 months to one year" to get pg so we thought we would start trying in 6 months.

The first try of "lets see what happens and not worry about it" only a few days after that appointment I missed my period and got a BFP.

MilesOfSmiles · October 2009

10 months, with a m/c in between. I was just starting to go to the fertility doctor (dx with PCOS), and about to start clomid and have U/S monitoring ovulation) when I got my BFP two weeks after our post-coital test. hehe...

mincemo · October 2009

Same here.... not trying, not preventing... just happened!

twh2006 · October 2009

This time after 4 accidental pregnancies in my 20's, it was taking forever, about a year, so I had contacted a midwife and took the herbs she suggested starting the first of march. I was taking Vitex, meanwhile I was researching fertility docs. The stress was actually starting to wear on DH and I (never having this problem I was freaking out over my age) and we did the deed ONCE in March while I would have been fertile.

GOD LOVE VITEX

He'll be here in 7 weeks the doc says!

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