I am not looking at conceiving my second child yet, but I am just curious on something that we have been told. My husband and me have been told that when we want to have another baby, that we should start a year earlier than what we want because it is harder to conceive the second time. With our son (who is now 4 months), we conceived after 1 time of unprotected sex. We are thinking to have our next child in 4-5 years, so should we start trying in 3-4 years? Also, I am on the pill so this would need to be taken in consideration also.
2007-10-22 09:12:44 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Trying to Conceive
Trust me,it is NOT harder to conceive, if ANYTHING, once you have the first baby, it seems to prepare your body and put it in "baby-maken mode" and you can get pregnant very easily. If you are on the pill, it should only take a few months tops. I dont know, this is my expereince anyway and Im a mother of 3. I always tell my friends this and guess what, they all have more then one now! Just figure out your cycle and I garuntee it will be easy. If your period is 28 days, you can conceive on Day 14 (count from the FIRST DAY of your period, it will be exactly 2 weeks after you started.) All three of mine were conceived this way. And trust me, I coulda had sex every day of the month, but if I skipped those days, I never got pregnant. And once I only had sex once that month, ON that "magic day" and well along came my son. Good luck. And be warned: one kid is easy, two is tough, three is impossible! But at least you have your husband and are smart enough to plan and space it out!
2007-10-22 09:50:44 · answer #1 · answered by t 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My first son took 2 months to conceive and I was off the pill for 6 months before trying. My second took 2 weeks to conceive and I went off the pill right before I started trying! Every woman is different and there is no way to know how long it is going to take to get pregnant. I have never heard that it is harder to conceive the second child.
2007-10-22 10:39:29 · answer #2 · answered by wannabhppy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may well take up to a year to conceive a baby for a healthy couple. Supply it time and don't stress about it. My husband and i tried over 2 years. It wasn't until i finished serious about it that I eventually bought pregnant. Additionally, simply given that it occurred quick the first time does not imply it'll this time...You only have like a 25% chance or anything like that of conceiving each month.
2016-08-05 22:01:08 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can not tell you what the general stats are in this situation, but I can tell you what happened with my husband and me. We got pregnant the first time, during my first cycle off the pill. We felt very lucky, and now have a beautiful daughter as a result. This summer we decided we would think about starting to have a second child. We wanted them to be about 2 years apart and didn't figure we would have the luck we had the first time in getting pregnant so quickly. Much to our surprise, we got pregnant again on the first try. Now our children will be 19 months apart. I don't know that this is the norm for people, but for us, it was really quick both times. I think it just depends on the individuals. Good luck!
2007-10-22 09:24:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't try until you are ready. Any given month you have a 25% chance of conceiving. It's not if you've been trying for months it would increase your chances the month you would actually like to conceive. The only thing about the 2nd baby is that you are older than you were with your first, and we know that as we get older the quanitiy and quality of our eggs decreases. I got pregnant the first month I tried with my first pregnancy and the 2nd month of trying with my current pregnancy. I was 26 the first time and 28 this time.
2007-10-22 09:16:35 · answer #5 · answered by Melissa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have never heard that before, i cant understand how it could possibly be true unless you have fertility issues (it doesnt sound like you do) heres my breakdown
#1- took 3 months to get preg
#2-took 3 months to get preg
#3- took 6 weeks to get preg
#4- took 6 weeks to get preg
that doesnt factor in ovulation times thats just from when we said ok lets make a baby untill i got a pos on the hpt. so if it was past ovulation i couldnt get preg that month but it still counted as a month ,get it? so i dont think what you heard is very reliable, maybe that is true in some cases with older women, like 35 and up then it is harder to get preg sometimes
2007-10-22 09:33:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Second time infertility/increased difficulty getting pregnant is very common. It doesn't happen to everyone, that's for sure, but some people assume that since they got pregnant once (even easily), it should happen really quickly the second time around, and that's definitely not always the case. You should probably start trying at the very earliest window that you'd want to have your next at.
2007-10-22 09:17:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try when you two feel the want. Actually you get pregnant quicker after the first pregnancy.. My girlfriend has stair step children, she got pregnant before her 6 week check up from the first baby.
2007-10-22 09:57:49 · answer #8 · answered by hershey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both of my pregnancies took me 3 to 4 months to get pregnant.
2007-10-22 09:22:17 · answer #9 · answered by Jaime P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋