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When Caitlin Boudreau and her husband decided to start a family, it seemed like everyone was expecting?except her. As she watched the bellies grow, she felt a sense of doom, wondering how long it would take to get pregnant. ?I was in despair and thought it would never happen,? she recalls.
After three months of trying, Boudreau, who lives in Victoria and was 31 at the time, started using a fertility app and an ovulation predictor kit to help her pinpoint prime baby-making time, but months passed and she still hadn?t gotten pregnant. After nearly a year of trying, she was starting to think about seeing her doctor for fertility testing when she took a pregnancy test and saw the two pink lines she?d been waiting for. ?I was super happy and very relieved that it all worked out,? she says. ?I realized that it takes a different amount of time for everyone.? So how long does it take to get pregnant" ?Some women get pregnant easier than others,? says Albert Yuzpe, a reproductive endocrinologist and co-founder and co-director of the Olive Fertility Centre in Vancouver. But there are some accepted statistics on how long it typically takes. Women who are 25 to 35 years old and having regular unprotected sex have about a 20 percent chance of getting pregnant each cycle, says Yuzpe. After celebrating your 35th birthday, your odds go down steadily. For example, at 40, you have only about an eight percent chance of getting pregnant each month. At 42, it drops to tw...