You need more time to see if its just a matter of getting in tune with your body and your cycle or if there's actually a problem.
I got pregnant on the 2nd month of trying with my first, but with my 2nd baby it took one year. (and for that whole year, yes I charted, did the ovul kits, did my temperature, and took mucinex!)
The difference between you getting pregnant today and 7 years ago is that now you are caring for a busy 7 year old, right?
When I was ttcing the 2nd time, I felt the same way after just 1 month of trying!-Like I was never going to get pregnant! I think bc things went so easy and wonderful the time first time, I just knew or was afraid, that I'd have big problems the 2nd time. Thats why each month with a negative test was <b>so hard</b>. If any other ttcing woman would come up to me and cry about not being pregnant after 4 months of trying-I'd probably have consolingly said 'its only been 4 months! relax! it will happen, it takes time!, bc I know thats true.
But for us, living with Cf and living with the fear of disappointment all the time-everything is stressful when it comes to your body. At least thats how I felt. I was so afraid I'd have some massive problem that I almost expected it. And that year of ttc was so hard for me bc of that. I kind of sabotaged myself.
The one thing doctor-wise that I did do was talk to my obgyn after about 10 months of ttc. She looked at my charting and noticed that I was probably ovulating earlier that I had thought, so we were probably missing my ovulation bc we weren't timing sex early enough in my cycle. She suggested having sex every other day or every day, from day 10-27. (yes, thats alot) 2 months later I made an appt with a fertility center and hubby and I went on an alone vaca to Italy. I came home pregnant. (and got to cancel the fertility appt)
Sometimes you need to go the fertility route. Sometimes its just stress, and sometimes its just timing. Also, are you recently coming off birth control? Something I didn't think about enough was that when I ttc'd for my first I had been off BC for 5 months before we tried. With the 2nd preg, it was only 2 months. Maybe my body just needed more time to readjust itself. The docs say that 'normal' fertility returns within 1-2 cycles after stopping BC, but sorry, I just don't believe that.
If I were you I'd take it to the 6 month mark and then bring your charts to the obgyn, just to get their opinion. If you can get pregnant just by altering a few things in your ttc cycle and avoid fert treatment, thats great. If you decide at that point to go the fert route, you can probably begin at 6 months of ttc depending on your doctor.
