How Long Does It Take To Get Pregnant?
Once you’ve decided you want to have a baby, that’s really just the beginning of your journey. There is plenty to do from here. In addition to starting to try to conceive, there are all sorts of lifestyle changes you’re going to want to be making right now. You want to get your body, your mind and your entire life organized in such a way that it’s an ideal place to conceive and to raise a child.
Unfortunately, sometimes you get stuck early on in that process. You try to conceive for a couple of months, but with no luck. So, you start hanging around pregnancy blogs like this one, doing fertility research, talking to friends, reading books and really just sort of immersing yourself in the issues surrounding fertility and conception.
You begin to pay attention to your body’s signs. You track your basal body temperature and chart your cervical mucus so you know when you’re ovulating. Each and every month, you time your baby dance perfectly, hoping that you’ll be able to register a positive pregnancy test this month.
And yet somehow, all of this effort doesn’t seem to pay off. Another four or five months goes by, and you’re still not pregnant.
It’s easy to get discouraged at this stage. However, you need to understand something: it’s still early in the process. Most of the time, a fertility specialist won’t even see couples who haven’t been trying to conceive for at least a year.
You see, even when you’re doing everything right, sometimes there is another problem that will prevent you from getting pregnant. Even if there’s not a problem, sometimes it just takes a while. You can’t force a sperm to fertilize an egg, no matter how hard you want to. That sort of thing can be done in the lab, of course, but you can’t do it from your bedroom.
Getting pregnant can take some time. Just because it does take time doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with you or that you’ll never get pregnant. It just means that it hasn’t happened yet.
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