Curiousity Question - Who took more than one year to get pregnant?

kimikins79 · December 2011

The post about getting pregnant right away made me think...there were 56 responses as of now saying that fellow May mommies got pg within a month or 2 in some instances. That seems like a whole bunch to me, especially since the statistic is 20% chance each time "trying." (Obviously I don't know the sample group since I don't know the exact number of May mommy posters)

I wonder how many are out there who took longer than one year, like me. I know some women from other boards (3T, IF TTCAL SIF) are on the may mommies board and have taken longer than one year, but maybe there are others...

I am now very intrigued to see the difference between the one monthers and one yearers (if that is a word).

joshandpanda · December 2011

we were never really "trying" it was more of a 'if it happens it happens' for right now... and that had gone on for probably 12-15 months or so...

mrsbecky07 · December 2011

Just under a year - 11 months.

easjer05 · December 2011

4 months to get pregnant the first planned pregnancy (missed m/c).

Pregnant immediately after that m/c (cervical pregnancy).

Two cycles (one required waiting) to conceive Gabriel.

Two years for a viable pregnancy post Gabriel (implantation literally had to have occurred on his birthday), with three early m/c in there (I think 2 months ttc, 2-3 months ttc, then a year of ttc, then a few more months).

MrsHo1030 · December 2011

I got my BFP a week before my year anniversary. We had already had our RE appointment and were just waiting for CD1 to start testing. I tested because I was going out that night (even though I told myself I wouldn't test until 14DPO.) We had such crappy timing too that I thought I was just wasting a test.

annerz22 · December 2011

It did not take us a year, but it did take us 8 months with 2 losses.

Truthfully, I was shocked when I saw all of those responses. It also shocked me how many people weren't even really trying and got pregnant that easily.

katiedhunter · December 2011

It took us 2 years, and 2 MC's.

Pelly · December 2011

18 months for us - it felt like forever, but I see that compared to some other people on these boards it isn't that long (unless I compare us to all those first-timers!).

annarach · December 2011

We were in the "not trying, but if it happens AWESOME" group.

I went off BC in March 2011 and conceived in August 2011 - so 6 months?

chibun1 · December 2011

We started trying in Jan. 2010... my cycles were about average length, but my temps were crazy, FF never confirmed ovulation and I never got a positive OPK.

In Feb. 2011, my cycle never ended.. Blood work and an ultrasound showed I had polycystic ovaries, but none of the other elements of PCOS.

First we decided to start testing in June... then we pushed it back to Sept.

In August, I'd had enough and we decided we didn't want to try any treatments and if it happened, it happened. It was the first month in over a year that we didn't really "try." We spent a week drinking wine and touring the coast of California... a week after we got back, we saw two pink lines.

Kaiacali · December 2011

10 months for us and we were really trying, trying to calculate ovulation and all. Go figure the one time we tried an ovulation kit we get pregnant. Come to find out I was ovulating later than we thought!

apaige25 · December 2011

Took us 26 months. But it finally happened on a non-medicated cycle the month after my Lap.

xnbride · December 2011

::raises hand::

We started trying when DS2 was 4 months because we knew that it would take a while..and it did. Three miscarriages later, we are pregnant! Technically it took us exactly a year and a half.

ke19 · December 2011

It took us 14 cycles/months. We had consulted with an RE at the 12 month mark and all our testing came back normal. He recommended IUI with Clomid but we decided to give ourselves another 6 months of trying naturally before going that route. We figured since there was nothing "wrong" with us, we might as well give it our best bet. I did start some natural fertility treatments (acupuncture, fertility diet) right after we met with our RE. I'm not sure if that made the difference, but I did get PG 2 months after starting that.

STL34 · December 2011

It took us more than 2.5 years and 3 IVF cycles (and a bunch of other procedures and testing) to get our very first BFP.

yale · December 2011

With my DS we got pregnant on the first try.

This one 14 months, with two miscarriages.

staccydev · December 2011

Started TTC 9/10, and got my positive pregnancy test 8/11.

pnkfaerie · December 2011

It didn't take my DH and I a year but we exclusively and actively tried for 8 months. When the 8th month hit I was just so done with it that I didn't want to look at my DH it wasn't his fault but I felt like a failure. He went away for half a month and I ovulated 3 weeks late; the day he came back from trip and we got pregnant. 9 months.

soontobeskalak · December 2011

It took us 18 months, 3 different cycles at with an RE

HotChocolate79 · December 2011

I think I win this one. 4 years with 2 very early / chemical losses in between.

LilLioness · December 2011

About a year and half with 2 losses in between. It took us 5 cycles for the first, 3 cycles for the second, and this baby was actually our first cycle back trying. Obviously we took time off in between the losses.

fryrat · December 2011

I'm in the one month club. We decided to stop being careful, decided we'd be ready for it if it happened, then boom. After the loss, when I decided I would be ready again, then another boom.

If I'm not careful, I'll end up with a flock of kids!

easjer05 · December 2011

The most irritating thing with this one is that we tried half-heartedly (I think we had sex three times around ovulation? I wasn't even using opk's because I'd run out), and a few days after ovulation is when the news was swirling about the new department (my boss and I had discussed it, but it wasn't official yet), and I was just plain tired. We were talking about a break anyway, and hadn't put a lot of effort into the cycle, and we never thought it would work anyway.

I'd promised my boss (jokingly, but stuck with it for my own sanity) that I wouldn't get pregnant during a time that would have me out during the summer, which is one of our busiest times, so we were planning on a break. About 5-6 days after ovulation, we agreed to take a 5-6 month break, try to pay down the remaining debt, get serious about losing weight and see my OB to discuss further testing/steps.

I felt really good about our decisions, and then at 9 dpo, out of nowhere, a bfp.

That awful, hideous, terrible statement - "Just relax and it'll happen!"

Yeah, it happened to me. I'm still pissed off about that.

sweetsugarmama · December 2011

We tried for 11 months (using fertility friend and the clearblue easy fertility monitor and ovulation strips) before I talked to a gyn about it. Then I did clomid, surgery and various other random treatments for another 10 months. Then I saw an RE and did a cycle of injectables and IUI. So a total of 22 months.

ELF4321 · December 2011

Almost exactly two years to get here.

smacb · December 2011

It took us years, multiple doctors and thousands of dollars

ECUGirl2004 · December 2011

Me... I am a secondary infertility mom. I got pregnant on my 22nd cycle... I think it was our 19th month? We got pregnant on our 3rd IUI, our first attempt with injectibles.

McKBaby · December 2011

It took us about 16 months.

We had just started seeing the RE and I got pregnant the cycle I had my HSG. I had heard of that happening and even the doctor who did the proceedure said it happens once in a while where the HSC just "clears out the cobwebs" and results in pregnancy acheivement.

sweetsugarmama · December 2011

ECUGirl2004:
Me... I am a secondary infertility mom. I got pregnant on my 22nd cycle... I think it was our 19th month? We got pregnant on our 3rd IUI, our first attempt with injectibles.

me too on the SIF! DD was a shock when I was on bcp. it's strange how much your body can change. I'm afraid it will change back and we're done so we'll be extra careful after these two.

picklesx · December 2011

I got pregnant during our 13th month of trying, after a few months of meds and our 2nd IUI. It was a long, stressful year, and my feeling like it was my "fault" put a strain on my marriage. I have to admit, a few of the replies to the "first try" thread rubbed me the wrong way

okayestmom12 · December 2011

Last November we decide to throw caution to the wind...

BFP in December 2010

Missed m/c in February 2011

Waited the requested 2 cycles per OB

Starting "trying" May 2011

Got myself all sorts of worked up because timing was good (or so I thought) for May, June, July but no BFP...

Stopped "trying" and threw caution to the wind again in August

BFP September 3, 2011

So overall... From November 2010 to this past BFP, 10 months.

missbrooklyn1 · December 2011

All told, about a year and a half with two losses (8 wks and 12 wks). This pg happened 6 months after my last m/c with 5 months of half-assing it and the 6th month we tried really hard. Crazy how long this journey is for all of us but it makes me feel better that I'm not alone. Until I found the bump I really thought that I was the only one that was having a long road.

gervaisj6 · December 2011

We tried almost a year, until we went to an RE,.only to find out we were MFI I got my bfp after 4 medicated (follistim) donor iui's.

veggiemommyruns · December 2011

chibun1:

We started trying in Jan. 2010... my cycles were about average length, but my temps were crazy, FF never confirmed ovulation and I never got a positive OPK.

In Feb. 2011, my cycle never ended.. Blood work and an ultrasound showed I had polycystic ovaries, but none of the other elements of PCOS.

First we decided to start testing in June... then we pushed it back to Sept.

In August, I'd had enough and we decided we didn't want to try any treatments and if it happened, it happened. It was the first month in over a year that we didn't really "try." We spent a week drinking wine and touring the coast of California... a week after we got back, we saw two pink lines.

Reading this made me so happy for you

ECUGirl2004 · December 2011

picklesx:
I got pregnant during our 13th month of trying, after a few months of meds and our 2nd IUI. It was a long, stressful year, and my feeling like it was my "fault" put a strain on my marriage. I have to admit, a few of the replies to the "first try" thread rubbed me the wrong way

I didn't even open it. I knew it would bother me.

DrRx · December 2011

3 years!

I went off of birth control in July/August of 2008. In July 2009, after irregular cycles and no bfp, we went to the RE and got checked out. I was diagnosed with lean PCOS and DH's SA came back low in everything. Luckily, DH numbers weren't catastrophic, but they were pretty bad.

We took several breaks from treatments but never really quit trying during the cycles in between. Our treatments included 3 months of clomid, 1 month of clomid and IUI, and finally decided to do IVF with ICSI in July/August of this year. We were fortunate enough to get pregnant with our first IVF and are very thankful to also have 6 frosties in storage.

wannabemommy30 · December 2011

We tried for over a year and were told we could not get pregnant on our own. I made some lifestyle changes and we got pregnant on our own after about a year and a half.

Mrs.Barry31508 · December 2011

It took us a year and half to get pregnant

picklesx · December 2011

ECUGirl2004:
picklesx:
I got pregnant during our 13th month of trying, after a few months of meds and our 2nd IUI. It was a long, stressful year, and my feeling like it was my "fault" put a strain on my marriage. I have to admit, a few of the replies to the "first try" thread rubbed me the wrong way

I didn't even open it. I knew it would bother me.

I didn't expect it to bother me, and some of the replies were along the lines of feeling bad because they weren't trying and know people who had been trying and unable to achieve pregnancy, but there were a handful who just seemed like they were boasting...and then there was one who was "LOL I GOT KNOCKED UP RIGHT AWAY WITHOUT EVEN THINKING ABOUT IT LOL" and actually said something like, "I'm very fertile, so..."

And that was when I got a little angry, which I find strange, because I wasn't one to really have much bitterness at all towards people who didn't have fertility issues while I was trying so hard and spending a lot of money to fix mine.

ELF4321 · December 2011

picklesx:
ECUGirl2004:

picklesx:
I got pregnant during our 13th month of trying, after a few months of meds and our 2nd IUI. It was a long, stressful year, and my feeling like it was my "fault" put a strain on my marriage. I have to admit, a few of the replies to the "first try" thread rubbed me the wrong way

I didn't even open it. I knew it would bother me.

I didn't expect it to bother me, and some of the replies were along the lines of feeling bad because they weren't trying and know people who had been trying and unable to achieve pregnancy, but there were a handful who just seemed like they were boasting...and then there was one who was "LOL I GOT KNOCKED UP RIGHT AWAY WITHOUT EVEN THINKING ABOUT IT LOL" and actually said something like, "I'm very fertile, so..."

And that was when I got a little angry, which I find strange, because I wasn't one to really have much bitterness at all towards people who didn't have fertility issues while I was trying so hard and spending a lot of money to fix mine.

I tried all day not to read it or even come to this board as soon as I saw that subject, but I broke down and read it. While I don't begrudge anyone getting pregnant easily and wouldn't wish infertility on my worst enemy, some of the posts do bother me. Like when people say things like "I guess God wanted us to be parents and that's why we got pregnant right away". Does that mean God doesn't want those of us who have trouble to be parents? I find those kind of comments really hurtful.

chibun1 · December 2011

veggiemommyruns:
chibun1:

We started trying in Jan. 2010... my cycles were about average length, but my temps were crazy, FF never confirmed ovulation and I never got a positive OPK.

In Feb. 2011, my cycle never ended.. Blood work and an ultrasound showed I had polycystic ovaries, but none of the other elements of PCOS.

First we decided to start testing in June... then we pushed it back to Sept.

In August, I'd had enough and we decided we didn't want to try any treatments and if it happened, it happened. It was the first month in over a year that we didn't really "try." We spent a week drinking wine and touring the coast of California... a week after we got back, we saw two pink lines.

Reading this made me so happy for you

Thanks! I'm so thrilled to be here!

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