all things pregnancy & blog purpose

I've decided to create a blog to document this pregnancy and the start to finish of creating baby's nursery.  Part of me wishes I had started this sooner (I'm 16.5 weeks right now) but with 4 previous losses (hence the fifth time's a charm) I've been pretty skeptic to do so.  Yes, you read that correctly.. FOUR losses, this is our fifth pregnancy.  The first 3 were what most refer to as chemical pregnancies, blighted ovum, early losses, depends on who you're asking.  All were heartbreaking, but the 4th took the cake.  We thought surely I'd overcome whatever unknown fertility issues we were dealing with when we got to see a heartbeat on screen at an ultrasound at 6w5d, but I ended up miscarrying -yet again- at 9w5d.  I've had about every test under the sun done to try and figure out what on earth kept happening, but have gotten nowhere really.  I did come up positive for MTHFR - homozygous (meaning two copies) of the A1298C gene.  Basically just a folic acid/folate deficiency and my RE(reproductive endocrinologist) prescribed an extra 4mg folic acid and 81mg aspirin daily in addition to my prenatal vitamins.  The RE I was seeing, and the perinatologist I saw after moving to Arizona at around 8 weeks seem to be in agreement that this alone would not have caused the losses.  However, here I am.. 16 + weeks -still pregnant- and the only thing different is the brand of progesterone I was on this time, and the added folic acid.  Who knows?  Maybe it did something.. maybe it was just finally our turn.

Anyway, enough about that.. but feel free to ask questions about our struggles with it all if you are curious.  I'm definitely open to discuss as I don't think fertility issues are as "out in the open" as they should be a lot of the time.

Our most recent ultrasound at 13 weeks 4 days
>> video of our NT scan <<

the peri was 90% sure we've got a little BOY in there <3