Anyone have an easy time younger, hard now?

[Lousli]

I'm trying to plan (I know, some things can't really be planned can they?) and because I'm a teacher, I'd ideally like to ttc during a certain window. My fear is that since I'm so much older now, it might not be as easy as it was when I was younger. I know fertility declines a lot as women age, but how much? I was 28 when I ttc my first and she was on the first try. My second was when I was 31, and she was the third month trying. I'm now 37.

My cycles are very regular, and although I'm not currently temping, I have fairly recognizable fertility signs. I'll start temping as we get closer to the window, since we're not trying until July I thought I'd temp in May and June.

I've given myself a 5 cycle window of ideal timing for this next one. If I don't get pregnant during that time frame, my husband and I would have to figure out what to do about timing since I really don't want to miss the very beginning of the school year and setting up my classroom. I'm starting to wonder if I should start trying even earlier.

Did anyone have an easy time ttc their first 1 or more and then have a significantly harder time with #2, 3, etc? I know there is such a thing as secondary infertility, but I think I'm asking outside the realm of that, just kind of with age and naturally declining fertility.

[SoCaliMommy]

I did

I honestly think i would have had primary infertility. My daughter took 3 months ttc, i had came off birth control pills in july/august started trying in september and was pregnant in december. I was 20 when she was born.

My son took a month shy of 1yr and 2 back to back misscarriages. I was 23

We'd been ttc#3 for almost 3years now. I will turn 28 in September.

[MaerynPearl]

i was 19, 19/20 and 22 when I got pregnant/had my first pregnancies (1 miscarriage, 2 children, all despite using various methods of birth control)

this one we TRIED for. For 2 years, 7 cycles... Im only 27 and he is only 25 and yet it took us 7 well-timed cycles out of 2 years to finally get to the point we are now.

I do not know if it was just our luck since we never had a single 2 cycles in a row that we were able to TTC... it would be one here, a few months apart, another one... if we just got so unlucky as to be in that 60-70% that didnt get pregnant with perfect timing every single time we tried or what.

[kalamos23]

I got pregnant first oops with DD at 25, and now it's been 11m of trying with well timed cycles and 2 m/c. It took 6m of great timing to get pregnant with the last baby we lost... anyway, I'm 27 now.

To give you hope though, my SIL got pregnant at 37 2nd try and is due in a couple of weeks.