How many months before you started TTC did you take yourself off you BCP? And if you did, did you consult your GYNO first?

Very new to this but learning a lot from all the great adivce on this site...love it!

Thank you ladies!

I did go to the gyno, mainly because it was a new Dr. for me and I wanted to meet her before I got pregnant. We want to try starting in June, so she told me to go off BCP in March to give my body time to regulate. It's possible to get pregnant the first month off BCP, but that doesn't happen to everyone.

I plan on stopping next month...mid-April will be my last pill ever.  But we're not TTC until August.  I did talk with my gyno about it at my annual appointment a month or so ago.  She actually told me not to stop until right before we wanted to TTC, reason being that many women are more fertile that first month off BCP because your ovaries can go into overdrive.  I weighed the pros and cons of stopping BCP now or waiting and decided that I wanted to learn my cycle off BCP for a few months before TTC.  So I'm stopping next month.

I stopped at the end of december, and we begin TTC in April. I did NOT consult with my doctor. I just knew I wanted to get to know my body for a few months and get things happening nautrally. I seemed like a good way to start the new year :)

I was never on it....but a friend was on since she was like 16, stopped the pill, and got preggo 2 weeks later! Has a baby girl now!

ha!  see jax...you go and say things like that and make me doubt my decision! ;-)

I stopped in May and we started not preventing in September and then actually trying in December. We planned to start in May - but life sort of got in the way and we needed to wait a little while longer.

Jax and Beatie - my SIL got pregnant while on the pill when they went on vacation and she forgot them, so she didn't take them for four days, and presto my niece Olivia :)

I took my last pill 11/09 and we started to TTC 1/10. My doc said she recommends being off for 2-3 cycles before starting to TTC so thats what we went with.

Thank you ladies, great advice as usual!

i stopped in dec 05, we stopped preventing then. I was pretty careless with the pill a few months before tho