Is there such thing as "pre-planning" pregnancy?

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My husband and I have been talking about conceiving, and we have a perfect idea of "when" to start trying... is this worth it? Or do we just throw caution to the wind and figure it out when it happens??? I think we're overthinking, but is there a perfect time to do it? Or just go for it? Idk I had a gyno appt today and i was given an all clear, and I feel like I'm going crazy!!. 😂

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You can, but just keep in mind that you might not get pregnant when you want to! On the flip side, we started trying and got pregnant a lot sooner than we thought so that’s always a possibility too!

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Sometimes things don't go as planned. Just be aware that what your saying is kind of naive. Some people try for years.

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Yes. First start taking prenatal (or at least folic acid).
We set a start date, because I needed to keep a safe gap after my emergency csection.
Also first baby, we started after certain day, because we basically needed our baby to be born after july 1. Because at that time one law at our area gave dads 30 day payed leave, and we wanted to make sure baby won't be born before that law starts.

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You usually have 30% chance of conceiving every month. It took my husband and I 11 months to conceive our rainbow baby and she’s our #5 after we lost our #4. We have 3 other living children that was unexpected. Now we’re currently ttc our #7 after our another loss with our #6. This is our 2nd month and I wouldn’t be surprised if it will take us a while to get pregnant.

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I’m on my third and all three of mine are spring/early summer. I planned it and we tried more frequently in specific months, as I’d rather have a baby during those months that lined up with a spring due date. We live in Michigan and in the winter we don’t do much, we spend a lot of time at home, so I prefer a having a baby when the weather is nice and my maternity leave can also be spent doing things with my family outside. I wasn’t 100% closed off to the idea of having a baby during a different time of year, but preferred not too. It worked for us, but it can take time so you can plan but be open to the fact it may not work as planned too.

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It took me 15 months to conceive baby no 5 currently 13+2 weeks sometimes it can happen quick and other times can take a while. Whenever you are ready to start trying xxx

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Yep, I planned my first so that I wouldn't be massively pregnant around the time of my company's huge annual board meeting.

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It’s up to you and him. I have friends that are teachers so they always plan to try for a few months out of the year. To get the due date as close to the end of April/beginning of May as possible so they can take their leave and then have their summer months as well. Both parents are teachers btw. So this has worked well for them for their first 2. Now they’ll try for a third and if doesn’t work, she has said she’ll wait another year to try again. To each their own 🤷🏻‍♀️

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It's ok to plan just remember that things dont always go quite according to plan.      But theres absolutely nothing wrong with planning when to start trying or just letting it happen when it happens.

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Depends what the perfect time means for you. We waited til after we were married and went on a trip. I also wanted to wait til after a work trip too as I didn’t want to be pregnant for any of those things.

Is there such thing as "pre-planning" pregnancy?

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