Why does it take months for some couples to conceive despite being fertile and having frequent sex?

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So a friend of mine is planning a family and haven’t gotten pregnant yet. Her gynac said they it may happen right away or may take even a year to conceive. Well, i don’t really understand this.

If a fertile man and woman are having frequent sex, what really leads to not getting pregnant?

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We talk about safe sex as if pregnancy is always going to happen because it’s *such a problem* if you get pregnant and didn’t mean to, but in reality it’s statistically really complicated to conceive a child.

10+% of *known* pregnancies end in miscarriage, and there will be tons and tons more that fail before they are even known.

Especially the older you get, the more like trying to hit a bullseye it becomes. If you shot one arrow a day for a year would you hit? Maybe but also maybe not.

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