I had taken birth control pills for 15 months and I had stopped taking them on December 7, 2016,
There really is no correct answer here. Some women will get pregnant simply by missing a couple of pills out of the month, others may try for years, there really is no way to know.
It depends on your body. Some people get pregnant right away and others not. Give yourself at least six months to get the pill out of your system before you worry about not conceiving or conceiving.
Good luck to you.
the other S.
I agree with the others - no way to know how long it will take your ovaries to realize they aren't been "suppressed" and they should start ovulating again. But let's remember that just ovulating and having intercourse aren't guarantees for anyone who wants to get pregnant, whether there have been pills involved or not. You could ask the same question after stopping condoms or diaphragms, right? So sometimes it takes a while to get a real period, and even so, it takes a while to get pregnant. That doesn't mean the pill had anything to do with it.
So, when I worked as a birth control and women's health counselor, we always said to assume you would get pregnant (and therefore watch nutrition, alcohol and smoking), and also to be patient while you wait. Just because someone else got pregnant the first month doesn't mean there is anything wrong with you!
Well for me - it took 4 years and a fertility specialist.
We did birth control for a long time and stopped - but then found out we both had issues to overcome - and basically we couldn't get pregnant without a lot of help.
We never did birth control again - it was a waste of money for us - and we only have one child.
It can happen the first month, but typically it takes a few months for cycles to get back to normal. They advise you to wait a few months just so you can tell when you are ovulating, which helps predict due dates better.
Some people have bleeding when they come off the pill and this can be confused as a period - again, hard to pinpoint when you got pregnant unless you have some clue.
But you can get pregnant right away the first time you ovulate. If you're on regular birth control pills that suppress ovulation, sometimes it can be delayed for a while, but not for everyone.
I'd talk about this with your doctor if you are planning on getting pregnant.
with my first, i stopped at the end of october, i was pregnant by november
with my second.. i missed a pill and found out later i shoulda stopped completely as i conceived that one night without my pill...
my good friend stopped her pills about the same time that i stopped for my first and has yet to get pregnant. so it depends on the person, her history, and who her bodys hormones are. talk with your dr. they can help you figure all this out and they know your history and can answer better than internet mommas that don't know you at all.
No clear answer here. Depends entirely on the person, age, health, luck. May happen immediately, may struggle with infertility. I was on the pill about 15 years and got pregnant with our first the third month off. I don't recall with our second child, but it was around the same time frame. But I was very lucky, because I was in my 30s.
about a day.
but you should use other birth control methods for a few months to make sure that all the hormones are cleared out of your system.
khairete
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Do your body and the baby a favor. Don't try to get pregnant right away. Wait 6 months to clear the hormones out of your system. Start eating right, and take pregnancy vitamins. The folic acid is very important to help prevent spina bifida and some forms of cleft palate. These birth defects happen EARLY in the pregnancy - before the first 8 weeks. Some women don't even know that they are pregnant until after that...
That's why it's important to plan and work on being as healthy as possible before trying to get pregnant.
My first OB said that you were actually most fertile right after stopping, in those first couple of months. So, while there's obviously no guarantee that it will happen right away, you don't have to worry about getting them out of your system or anything like that.
I have a friend who got pregnant 3x's while on the pill. Everyone is different.
There is no standard answer. Just for me - the first time I stopped bcp (which I had been taking for many years), I was pregnant within the first month. I never even had a period between stopping them and conceiving.
The second time I stopped taking them, it took me 18 months to conceive.
So, it's possible to get pregnant right away. It's also possible that (likely for reasons unrelated to the pills), it may take much longer.
I got pregnant 1 month after stopping with both kids.
