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If you don’t get pregnant the first month you try, the wheels in your head may start turning as you obsess over why this is taking so long. But pregnancy is by no means a sure thing, even when you do everything right and have no major fertility issues. Statistics say that

 Out of 100 couples under age 35 trying to get pregnant over a three month period, 50 achieve their goal, but 20 percent miscarry.

 If your partner is in her late 30s, you have a 10 percent chance of pregnancy each month but a 34 percent chance of miscarriage.

 If she’s older than 40, you have only a 5 percent chance of pregnancy each month and more than a 50 percent chance of miscarriage.

The good news is that 90 percent of 30-year-olds trying to get pregnant become pregnant within a year, and 66 percent of 35-year-olds get pregnant in a year. Around 44 percent of 40-year-olds become pregnant within a year. Over age 40, variables such as hormone levels affect pregnancy rates, and generalizations are hard to make. Timing intercourse to ovulation can increase the chance of getting pregnant to 76 percent in the first try, for those under 30.