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Even for a healthy couple at your age, it can still take up to a year before you conceive. Having sex every 2-3 days throughout your cycle will help increase your chances. Do you use OPKs to detect a LH surge or chart your BBT to confirm ovulation? If not, I suggest that you do as it can help a lot. Good luck

No i don't do either! I figured because i have a regular 28 day cycle that following the fertility/ovulation calculator it would be pretty spot on! I normally come on 14 days after i expected ovulation happened and me and my DH BD every other if not every day regardless of the fertile window... could that be the problem are we over working him and maybe the sperm quality is effected?

Can ovulation happen very much before cycle day 14 or very much after? Maybe i should start doing both what do you think?

I am 23 and it took me and my husband 3 years to concieve our first daughter, we used concieve plus for a month an fell pregnant first month, with our second pregnancy we tried pre seed and fell pregnant within the first month, I like them because even tho I have enough vaginal lubricant the sperm friendly lub helps to keep the sperm alive longer. I started using opts and worked out my lp was to short so I used fertilitea and it lengthened the first month by 2 days

I'm 23 and this is our 2nd month trying. I used the CLEARBLUE Advance OPK. We BD like CRAZY! I've been exercising and eating healthier. I wouldn't flip out if it took me more than 3 months to get pregnant. YES, I am a VERY impatient woman but TTC takes a lot of patience. Think of it as training. Because you have to especially patient when you have a baby ;) When you're like "Hurry up! Hurry up! It's gotta happen NOW!" It kind of makes you stress out and it takes over your life. And it makes you sad when you see BFN :( So just relax chick ;) "It will happen when it will happen"- I despise this quote yet I live by it

I'm 24. I also freaked when I didn't get my bfp the first cycle. We had also been using the withdrawal method for the year before with no happy accidents to my dismay so I was sure I was going to have to have a talk with the doctor. But for cycle two bought pre seed and used it to bd even when I thought I wasnt ovulating. Got my bfp! 6 wks 1 day. I swear by pre seed. :)

If there are no sperm count issues, then every day shouldn't hurt but I wouldn't really do it for the entire cycle. Just in case. You could always bd every other day and then from CD12-16 say bd every day (gives a few days window if you don't O on CD14) and then back to every other day. OPKs pick up a LH surge just before O but BBT confirms O happened and over a few cycles will give you info on when you O and how long your LP is. There is some info on BBT charting if you go to My Cycles, click on calendar and underneath the that will be a box about BBT. Click the blue line and it will take you to the info page. Good luck

Up to one year of trying is completely normal even for someone your age. There is no point in stressing about issues when you haven't been trying very long (even though it may seem it) start opks or bbt charting. If it hasn't happened by 1 year then see your doctor. Good luck