trying for the first time...any tips?

Question

Me and my husband are new to this and just started trying for a baby for the first time yesterday. I’m extremely excited and hopeful but also very afraid after reading so many heartbreaking stories on this app. 
I only started taking prenatal vitamins a few days before we started trying which I hope isn’t gonna set us back. Do any of you have any tips on what I should do during this time while trying? How long after trying should we wait to take a pregnancy test?

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Don’t try. Don’t think about it too much and enjoy each other. I didn’t believe it, but it’s true stop trying and you will succeed!

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I have two kids (5 and 3) and I’m pregnant with number three (due in late DEC) 
The first wasn’t so much planned as it was “Hey. Lets stop birth control and see what happens! Maybe we can have a baby next year sometime? :D!” Ages 26/27
I got pregnant the same, fucking, MONTH. I’d been on hormonal birth control for over 10 years at that point. Color me surprised. 
Baby number two: I never went back on birth control. I breastfed #1 for over a year  and didn’t get a period until after I stopped and got pregnant again THAT SAME MONTH. 
This time though, I used this app to track my periods. It took almost five months of actively trying to conceive. Maybe it was my age (I’m 32 now) maybe it was because we were actually trying, idk. 
Truthfully, the very best way to get pregnant is to have sex every single day of the month. XD but we didn’t do that. We had sex maybe twice a month for years. 
It’s all about timing, I guess, but stressing out doesn’t help either. 
You can track if you want, have sex the week leading up to your projected ovulation and hope you ovulate in a “normal” way (my cycles have always been +/-40 days long and I was never sure). Just know that your not technically “having trouble conceiving” until you are actively trying for over a year with no results. 
That means it can take a while, even when trying your best to do everything right!
Good luck!

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I mean, personally, it took three months and we stopped trying too hard on the third. We used preseed, tracked ovulation and had sex every other day when my opk’s peaked (unless I thought it was high so we had sex only for it to be even darker the next day so we just tried again). Also if he takes vitamins, keeps his business from getting too hot, and tries not to get off on y’alls off days then that helps too

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I think my husband and I got pregnant so fast because we didn’t try. We had sex when we wanted, had fun and it was never made to be a stressful situation. The first 2 months I tracked it and was obsessed with thinking every little thing was a symptom. The 3rd I month I didn’t do any of that, we had sex once around the time I ovulated and ended up pregnant. Test the day you are supposed to get your period if you don’t get it. Good luck!

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