Want a baby? (104 "tries" is the norm)

[SoCalDem]

Not much consolation for all the "first-time-they-had-sex" teenaged girls :(


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1303442/Pregancy-The-average-couple-sex-104-times-conceive.html

104th time lucky: Average couple has sex more than 100 times before falling pregnant

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:31 PM on 16th August 2010

The average couple has sex 104 times before falling pregnant, a study has found. Research revealed it takes a typical woman six months to conceive her first child, during which she has sex around four times a week.

The study also found one in ten women have been so eager to get pregnant they have called their husband home from work when they were ovulating.

Practice makes perfect: A study of 3,000 mothers has found that a couple have sex more than 100 times in a bid to conceive

Despite this, 70 per cent of those polled said they wanted their baby to be conceived during a loving and spontaneous sex session, rather than a 'sex on demand' approach.

The study, carried out among 3,000 mothers was commissioned by family planning brand First Response.

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[FedUpWithIt All]

1. Not here. If i am looked at the wrong way i become pregnant.

:eyes:

[SoCalDem]

3. We had no problem either.. Our last two were 12 months, 10 days apart

:)

[uncommon]

7. Likewise, for real.

[Common Sense Party]

25. Me, too.

And I'm a guy.

[FedUpWithIt All]

27. Yikes!

:-)

[brendan120678]

2. Can't say we counted, but it took my wife and I...

...about two years before we conceived our first, and then about two more years after he was born before we conceived our second, who is due in about 3 months.

Can I assume it'll be two more years before our third is conceived?

[SoCalDem]

5. 2-3 yrs apart is a a perfect interval

They are close enough to be friends, but each has some "special" baby-time:)

Congrats on your soon-to-be :)

[MilesColtrane]

4. So....it just takes a typical weekend then?

:hide:

[SoCalDem]

6. um....

:spank:..sex-fiend:)

[BlueIris]

26. Nice. nt

[Statistical]

31. Nice (and congrats). n/t

[JuniperLea]

8. Pft...

Pills, condoms, foam... those are my children. First pills... second pills and condoms... third pills condoms foam...

Back in my heyday, before I shut down shop, you couldn't even whisper "baby" around me without my belly swelling!

[SoCalDem]

9. Our first was......White Russians

the second was more or less planned.. (Okay if we do, okay if we don't)

the third was the "flu".... our second was a few months old & I thought I was "safe".. I was wrong:)

[JuniperLea]

13. Funny how we fall for the Prego Mythos...

I knew those "preventions" were not 100% effective... but was startled anyway... except for the third time... it was like, oh, yeah... this again... ok. I nearly had my tubes tied with the second, but chickened out... I had two boys and thought maybe I'd have a little girl... at least I was right about that! And I didn't have the slightest reservation about shutting down shop after three. Although my great-grandmother, who had 15 kids (during The Great Depression, no less) was very dissappointed... she wanted me to follow in her prolific footsteps. It was cute:) She was always so stinking cute about things!

[SoCalDem]

15. I always wanted three girls

Katherine, Diane & Susan

but after 3 boys in 5 years, I had my tubes tied..

I was only 30, but having had 2 abruptions out of 3 pregnancies, my doctors said ENOUGH already.. time to quit tempting fate:)

we probably would have kept having boys anyway..and three are plenty:)

[JuniperLea]

18. Yikes! That is scary...

I'm glad everything came out ok... pardon the pun:)

:hi:

[Confusious]

22. Husbands fault. Nt

[SoCalDem]

24. It's a conspiracy.. He was an only child who wanted brothers

:grr:

[Bettie]

35. I have three boys too...wanted a girl so badly

My first was a beautiful little girl who we named Julianna. Sadly, she died at birth due to a delayed emergency c-section. The doctor on call was "unavailable" to do the crash c-section and they called a doctor from across town, causing a 30 minute delay in getting my baby girl out.

Since then, we've had three boys who are wonderful and now, my tubes are tied because I get pregnant very easily.....seven pregnancies with three living children is quite enough for me.

And have you noticed how very loud boys are?

[SoCalDem]

36. It's amazing how something so "simple" can go so "wrong" in such a hurry, isn't it?

My pregnancies were a breeze ....until the emergencies at about 7-8 months.. I am so sorry you had such difficulties too.. I was lucky , in that even with the drama, we did not lose a baby.. I cannot even imagine how devastating that must be :hug:..

It sounds like you are lucky to have your three, as are we.. They are all grown up now, and I do NOT miss the noise one bit.. or the chasing each other from room to room..or the thrown clodhopper-shoes..or the holes in the hollow-core bedroom doors...or the leaky waterbeds (they are of THAT era) that they just sopped up with towels & never bothered to tell us about until the floor was ruined.. or the big mysterious dent in the door of a brand new refrigerator...or the purple stain in the middle of the new living room carpet...It seems that the Momma Labrador spilled a grape soda she was drinking:)

We always claimed that we had 6 boys.. Scott...Michael...Steven.. I don't know, not me, and somebody...The first 3 were angels & the last three were the ones who left gallon jugs of milk out, who never locked the door & who did all the damage

[Bettie]

37. Sounds like my household

My three boys are 9, 8, and 2 and they are a hoot, but they drive me crazy.

I think I have those same three extras though. I don't know is the worst of them though, he seems to do everything. We're in the legos everywhere age right now, so I ALWAYS wear shoes in the house to avoid being crippled by lego shrapnel.

I am thankful every day for my boys and for every quiet moment I get to myself too.

Losing a baby was awful, but in the end, it made me a better mama and led me to many others with losses who are dear friends.

Thanks for your reply.

Bettie

[ProdigalJunkMail]

11. we had two that defied medical technology as well...

fun fun fun...the third one took a couple of tries...

sP

[JuniperLea]

17. Ha... a couple...

Yeah, I never got that trying thing. "A couple of tries" made me giggle:)

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. For our second,it was almost certainly the first time

we tried, and definitely the first week.

[Milo_Bloom]

12. She got pregnant our first month trying.

[MineralMan]

14. Are you saying that a woman can't get pregnant the first time she

has sex? Teenagers will be really happy to hear about this news, I think. :bounce:

[SoCalDem]

16. Isn't that what the boy usually tells the girl?

:evilgrin:

[MineralMan]

30. Among other lies, yes.

[MindPilot]

19. Yeah, right...

I want to know who she was screwing the other 103 times.

[One_Life_To_Give]

20. Who spends 20 years trying to conceive???

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[Johonny]

21. best part of kids is making them

[SoCalDem]

23. 2nd best part

when they grow up and move out:)

[taught_me_patience]

28. If I knew it was so hard, I'd have been less worried in college

of course... couples claiming sex 4x/week for six months straight, makes this "study" compelety bogus.

[applegrove]

29. I have a cousin who was born 9 months and 4 days after her parents' marriage. LOL!

[Kalyke]

32. Good Lord... I never had to try.

I realize that some women find it harder to conceive, but 104 tries? Is there something in our food or an increase in our stress levels that is making conception so difficult for so many?

(And I conceived using birth control BOTH times - the second time at 36 years old. While married during both pregnancies, they were both still "surprises". )

[JerseygirlCT]

33. "Falling pregnant"?

Now there's an interesting way of phrasing things.

[MineralMan]

38. British-ism. It's how they say it.

Knocked-up means something different over there, too. :rofl:

[JerseygirlCT]

39. That one I'd heard

Falling sure doesn't accurately describe my 6 years of trying to conceive, lol!

[MineralMan]

40. Well, I've spent all of my adult life trying NOT to cause a

conception, for whatever that's worth. :shrug:

[JerseygirlCT]

42. Some of us who wished to be parents

have noted the humor in moving from "oh please, don't let me be pregnant!" to "Oh please let me be pregnant!"...

[MineralMan]

43. I think it's a rite of passage.

Or something...

[JerseygirlCT]

44. LOL... oh yes

Now I'm of the age where I'm hoping "please don't get pregnant" for my kid!

And around we go!

[MineralMan]

47. Ah, the joys of parenting an adolescent, eh?

And we have our own memories to inform our worries. Uff da!

[JerseygirlCT]

48. Exactly!

:toast:

[yella_dawg]

34. I know a woman...

I know a woman who (she claims) got pregnant during both her first and her second sexual experience. I tend to believe her. But damn. Fate is a bitch.

[Prometheus Bound]

41. Woman sleeps with 20 strangers in bid to get pregnant

LONDON: A British woman has revealed that she is so desperate to get pregnant that she has bedded 20 men, who are strangers, in the past year.

Lara Carter, 25, from Penryn, Cornwall, even uses ovulation kits to know when she is most fertile, and when she meets someone she pretends to be drunk, and throws herself at the man, making it obvious she wants sex.

"First, I check if I'm ovulating. I have spent a fortune on the expensive tests. They cost 20 pounds for a pack of five but there is no point going out and meeting a man if I'm not at my most fertile," the Sun quoted her as saying.

"After getting dressed up - and putting on a wig - I meet some friends at a bar and instantly start looking for potential sperm donors," she revealed.

And Carter, an assistant office manager, is so desperate that when she meets a man who wants to use a condom, she will offer one from her purse, which she has already pierced a hole in.

More: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/mad-mad-world/Woman-sleeps-with-20-strangers-in-bid-to-get-pregnant/articleshow/6324363.cms

[Jennicut]

45. My daughers are a year and month apart. The first one took a few months, the second

one was a few days and neither my husband nor I expected I would be pregnant that fast. We wanted a second child but wow. I had a 6 month old and I found out I was pregnant. But I love it now that they are 5 and 6. The bottle/diapers/pull up phase was over quick for me and the girls are best friends with each other. I get the twin question a lot as the younger one is almost as tall as the older one. Almost twins.

[InvisibleTouch]

46. Geez. Just adopt already. n/t