How'd you conceive?

[carolyngrace]

You guys! People are currently getting pregnant who will be having June babies next year. How crazy is that!

Made me think about TTC last year... Anyone else want to reminisce with me?

DH and I tried in early 2014 for a few months. We even had sex for 10 days in a row, when we were in Italy, because I really wanted to conceive there, and I was ovulating. And nada.

The night of September 11th, 2014, I went to bed before DH (like usual). When he came to bed I woke up and figured, what the hell, lets have sex. He asked me "are we okay?" (we weren't sure if we were ready to start trying again). I was like "totally, I ovulated last week" (LOL I really didn't know my shit). After we finished, DH said "We just made a baby. I can tell." and I said "you're crazy."

I had been doing that thing where I tested every month a couple of days before my period was due, but I told myself I wasn't going to do it that month because I was wasting money on tests. I even felt "period cramps" a few days before I found out and was sure I wasn't pregnant.

Then I found ONE last test in my bathroom, so I took it for the hell of it. When it turned positive my heart almost jumped out of my chest. It was so faint that DH didn't believe me, so I bought a digital one the next day and it was positive.




So c'mon, tell me your story  

[missjenniebean]

@bubbs119 we got ours Sept 27!

We were just talking about this in the car on the way home! We weren't actively trying though not preventing either. We were animals back then so not really sure of the circumstance though. Can't believe it has been a year!!!

[baileybaileybne]

Wow, so much has happened in 12 months!

DH and I had been trying for several months but timing my ovulation was difficult with a really long cycle. So we said screw saving up for a baby, let's go on a holiday. Off to The Bahamas (a long way from Australia) and a fun filled trip with many cocktails.

I felt really sick the night we were flying home out of LA and got period cramps a few days later on. Nope, after another 3 days of waiting for my period to arrive I got brave enough to test (I'd avoided it because of disappointment in the past).

Such a great way to Have success after some delay and concern. We constantly joke about where we'll holiday when we're ready for number 2.

[jessila]

We had decided in August that we were as ready as we'd ever be. That was a couple days before my period. Pretty sure we conceived when DH came back from a business trip to Las Vegas near the end of the September. We think.

[baytosa2013]

We were just talking about this the other day. Sept was our 2nd month trying. I had wanted August because it was our 1 year wedding anniversary and I was ovulating but no go. I thought we'd be out for Sept too because we were going out of town with friends and only managed to have sex twice that week.

Well a couple weeks later I went out with the girls on a Saturday and we had dinner and several drinks for my bday. I felt funny that night...like I had to force myself to drink. The next day was my bday, Oct 5th and DH and I were supposed to go wine tasting but something kept bugging me. I said we have to go to Walmart anyway for snacks so I'm picking up a test just in case. We got home, I peed on a stick and 1 min later yelled "I'm we aren't going wine tasting!" He came running in the bathroom and was like no way!! Happy bday to me!!!!

[erbear]

We did IVF, so no mysteries there. My egg retrieval was October 1st, transfer was October 6, and I got a positive test October 13th.

One thing I'll always remember: a local farm has a weekend fall festival and we went the weekend before the positive test. I was 10 dpo and I knew it was early but I tested that day before we went and it was negative and I was devastated. I didn't tell my h I had tested because I didn't want to ruin his day, too. Then that Monday something told me all day to test again, even though I had convinced myself to not test again until at least 15 dpo. It worked!

[mrsmonogrammed]

If was out first month "trying"...we had decided to NTNP for s few months and if I wasn't pregnant by Christmas we'd give it a break. (I'm in a wedding in October, didn't want to deliver that month!). We DTD a few times when I thought I would ovulate. As it came time to test I realized I reallyyy wanted to a baby soon so if I wasn't pregnant I would start temping the next month. I started testing about 4 days befor my period was due and saw a faint line but didn't believe it until I turned a digi 10/16/14

[tiffbot]

I've been thinking about this too! I got my BFP on September 25!

We had talked about starting TTC soon, DS turned 1 in July and I got major baby fever again. Then a good friend of mine got a BFP in August (we are close enough she told me that day lol!) and the baby fever kicked into overdrive. I started temping again, even though I was getting my wisdom teeth surgically removed at the start of September-I believe it was the 9th (ha, and now a year later DD's 3 month checkup is on the 9th!)

So yes, I had a big old giant swollen face, but H was leaving on a work retreat for a couple days right around O time so we went for it, even though I thought we might be too early. Glad we did then!

[mcp6286]

I went off my birth control in August 2013 because we thought we'd want to start trying soon after. However, I didn't start ovulating again until May 2014! My gynecologist was just starting to get worried that something was seriously wrong and we were scheduled to begin diagnostic testing the next week when bang, I got my period! We didn't track ovulation right away, just dtd as much as possible over the summer. When August came and I got my 4th negative test, my SIL (the crazy one) announced an "oops" pregnancy at my niece's bday party. H was immediately like, ok that's not cool, they totally stole our thunder and they don't even like their kids, now we have to get pregnant ASAP! I started doing ovulation tests and we dtd every day the week of my ovulation in Sept. Clearly it worked, because I got my bfp on October 12th. I was so excited to take the test that I couldn't wait for H, so I took it while he was at a work event while telling myself it would be negative like the others anyway. It wasn't!!!!

And weird tmi random: I'm due to ovulate this month the EXACT SAME WEEK that I got KU last year. H keeps joking about Irish twins lol

[wegrowsheep]

We were actively trying NOT to... I thought I had ovulated 4 or 5 days earlier, and declared it a "safe" night. LOL. I waited til I was over a week late (and feeling like shit) to tell DH. While he was driving.

[Flick]

We weren't trying but we also weren't not trying. We knew it was a possibility but it was one of those "It won't happen to us" kind of things. I remember being so tired at work and chugging Monster after Monster still not getting any energy. One of my coworkers made a joke that Monsters were the devils drink and would get me pregnant. Later that night I was organizing the crazy mess of hair products under the bathroom sink and found a lone pregnancy test from a few months before. I remembered what my coworker said and chuckled. The box was long gone and I figured might as well take it, one less thing to clutter the bathroom. I took the test and laid it on the counter not thinking much of it. SO came in the bathroom and saw the test but didn't look at the result and we joked about what if I was pregnant. Looked at the test and sure as shit it said positive so I went to the store and bought four more. It was unexpected but not exactly surprising.

[Deleted]

IVF. Our day five transfer was September 27th.

We're take P in to meet our RE during the one year anniversary of our cycle.

[nchauhan]

I had stopped birth control in July of 2014 so that I could regulate my system before starting to try. In late September, we went to Italy for continuing education classes for our profession. One night, we got hammered on great Italian wine and got into a discussion on who would we ask, if we ever wanted to have a threesome (classy, I know). We got back to our hotel room, and had crazy drunken sex. We had been pulling and praying, but that night, MH asked if he could cum inside me so we could try for a baby, and I said yes. A couple weeks later, we were on a food tour, and I couldn't stomach the prosciutto. I assumed I was hungover and gave my samples to MH. When we got home from our trip, my stomach had been feeling like I had butterflies floating around in there for the last two days, but I also had cramps. A friend finally suggested I take a pregnancy test, and it was positive. We were ecstatic

[alayne926]

I was tracking ovulation and because DH didn't want to know when I was ovulating (he was nervous) we had A LOT of sex that month. I started testing like 5 days before my period was due. I finally got a positive the day before it was due. I knew DH was coming to have lunch with me the next day because of his crazy work schedule, so after we had lunch, I told him I wanted to go to the Carter's store because there was a cool airplane shirt I wanted to get for DS (he's a pilot). Instead, I went in and picked up a "big brother" shirt and told him that way.

With DS, we were coming off two losses, so I didn't get to tell him in a "fun" way because I needed his support. It was fun to surprise him this time.

[mirage86]

I'm not sure what day exactly we conceived since we DTD quite a bit that week/weekend. I had my wisdom teeth removed about a week afterward. I kept thinking that I wasn't feeling well because recovery was taking a stupid long time and I was very stressed at work.
I thought my period started the day before we found out, and I joked with DH that we were still in "practice mode" even though we weren't trying. I was really nauseous at work and my team convinced me to leave early and go to the clinic to make sure it wasn't a bug. My first words to the doctor were "What?!? Are you sure?" Lol. But E was an amazing surprise and I love life with him in it!

[sugarkissed]

We'd decided to stop doing anything to prevent pregnancy after DD1's first birthday (September 10). DH had made this amazing video for her first year and it made me cry every time and set baby fever into overdrive. I was still breastfeeding and hadn't had a postpartum period yet so I thought that it might take awhile. I was wrong. After feeling pretty crappy in October and assuming it was the flu, DH convinced me to take a test low and behold, it was NOT the flu.

So basically I conceived on DD1's birthday or the day after.. haha.

[musicfrk2002]

We had started trying last august. And by trying, I mean I was counting days and H was just along for the ride. September came and my period, which shows up every 28 days like clockwork, was late. So I waited 2 days, then took a test, and nothing. My period showed up a few hours later though.

Then the end of September we were in Las Vegas visiting some of H's family and celebrating our anniversary. It just happened to be right around the time I was ovulating. We dtd twice while we were there, but H had some "issues" the second time. So, J was conceived on September 30th at Mandalay Bay.

Now we are in October. Again, my period is late. I had picked up a 2 pack of tests but hadn't taken one yet, since I was only a day late at that time. I had to work a split shift the next day (October 16th), so I figured what the hell and took one, and it was positive! I was in shock and managed to hide it from H because I wanted to surprise him, and I didn't fully believe it myself. So on my lunch break I picked up the book "my boys can swim" and a Bears onesie (his favorite team) and wrapped them up with a note saying he would need the onesie next year, and took another test just to be sure.

[honeybunches101]

We had been trying since Feb 2013 with no luck. I was still breaatfeeding and my cycles were wonky, so I was using OPKs and trying to temp as much as one can with a toddler who wasn't sleeping thru the night. Had fertility tests done and everything was normal. The last weekend of September we went to a wedding in North Carolina and my mom came and stayed with DS at our apartment. She joked that she was only letting us have a weekend away so we could give her another grandchild! I knew I was ovulating that weekend so we had sex a couple times but I figured it wouldn't work. Unlike most other months, I didn't feel pregnant at all and took a cheap Internet test at 10dpo just out of habit. I left it on the bathroom counter and went back to watching the Nationals win a playoff game. I went back to throw away the test and saw a faint line. I freaked out and asked DH if he saw it. He didn't really believe me, but I took another test a few hours later and it was definitely positive! I had had two chemical pregnancies in the year before so I obsessively took tests every day the next week or so to make sure the line kept getting darker. Can't believe its only been a year, seems like forever ago!

[tulips114]

We decided we wanted to go for number 3 so DH stopped pulling out. LOL
3 weeks later I turned a test positive after having RLP when I coughed.

[carolyngrace]

nchauhan at least one of us has a baby conceived in Italy!

[wegrowsheep]

@badwolf321 That's sweet, I bet it made his day!

[turtletyme]

I went off bc in March 2014 and nothing was doing. I was buying armfuls of tests at the dollar store. In late September, we had two events that my H was dreading... taking me to see Hall and Oates (which ended up being worse than he imagined, it rained and was a 25 degrees below average day, we froze) and my dad coming to visit. I was putting out a lot afterward because he was such a trouper.

I was signed up to go on a wine tour on Oct 11. I took tests every day leading up to it because the person who organized it was obsessed with getting a correct head count. Tests were negative, so off I went. Monday morning, I tested again (weekly ritual because I had started smoking cigs again and my periods were so wonky) and it was positive, clear as day. This weekend I am busting out the wine I bought!

[nchauhan]

carolyngrace, when I started reading yours, I was like, holy shit, were we both boning in Italy at the same time?! Haha, MH and I don't get vacations unless they're work related, so we are already looking into the next couple years to see when we'll try for another in some exotic place.  Tahiti in late 2017 is looking pretty good!

[baytosa2013]

Sept 4, 2015 4:50:41 GMT -5 @hazeldublin said:

After two losses spread over two years we finally conceived and 9 months later had a healthy baby. After all the heartache and waiting we were unsure whether to start trying in anticipation of another long wait or be safe for a while. Well all the back and forth resulted in a 15 week old baby and a positive test me and my husband all in my bathroom.

Holy Moly! I could not even fathom being pregnant again and finding out NEXT WEEK!

Edit: spelling is hard and should we take bets on whether anyone in our BM will be knocked up again in the next month?

[jessila]

Sept 3, 2015 21:30:03 GMT -5 @jemomma said:

wegrowsheep i feel like a lot of 3rd children are by accident, lol. Glad I'm not the only "oops" pregnancy here

For the record, later in life tell them they were a 'bonus baby.'
It stings a little less than accident :-) My mom always tells me only my sister (middle child) was planned while my much older brother and I were not.

[dmoney]

We had started trying end of July but we werent doing anything like tracking my temp and what not. In August we had started to track and when I got my period i was super upset. In Sepetmeber I was temping very religously not even getting out of bed just reaching over grabbing the thermator and doing it then and there. On September 17th my temp had spiked. After my morning shower I had kind of jumped on DH before he could get out of bed that morning. I started taking Pregnancy test 3 days before my missed period. The first 2 days i got a negative.. That Friday i took a test and got a big positive..it was faint but it was there... DH did not believe the 4 home test that all said yes. That Monday after work we went to Patient First and he made me have a blood test done.. The doctor came in the room and handed me a script for prenatals. She never officially said we were pregnant. I turned to her and said So does this mean it came back positive.. She was like yes. I looked at DH and said Told you so. You could hear the nurses laughing because they knew why we were there in the first place!

[megeliz1]

We weren't trying to get pregnant because I was only 6 months postpartum but also weren't preventing because we struggled to conceive DD1 through IUI's. H had been out of town all week and flew home saturday. We took advantage of our older daughters afternoon nap. It was the only time we had sex in a four week span.

[Deleted]

DD was conceived the evening of an out of town wedding. the bride and groom reserved a campground by the beach for everyone to get together after the reception to drink and surf. We had drunk sex in a tent. the next morning they closed down the beach highway for a marathon so we had to take a winding road for 5 miles to the nearest highway. we had to pull over on the side of the road and i puked in the dry brush. yes, that was the weekend DDs classy parents conceived her.

[mrsdee1982]

We were in a trashy casino hotel in Laughlin, NV for my Aunts 80th birthday. It was about 190 degrees outside and we were so drunk and so bored. We went upstairs to our room for a "nap". Oh, my parents were in the adjoining room. We classy up in here! September 12th...awww yeah!

[cnumbers]

Mine's is really uninspiring and boring if you like.. I don't know when LO was concieved exactly.. I know it was sometime around 7th - 15th of September. I wish i knew exactly when. I loved reading everyones stories though.