Things have been interesting here for the past nine months or so.

My wife and I decided that we would never be ready to have kids, so we figured now was as good a time as any to do so. We started working on that back in October, shortly after our anniversary. As luck would have it, we were successful the first time (well, I'm saying the first time because it makes me feel like a real man). A few weeks later she missed her period and took a test which gave a positive result. We made an appointment and went in. Here's where the bad news starts.

My wife was showing all the signs of pregnancy until a few days prior to the appointment; frequent urination, hunger, morning sickness, etc... All of that stopped just before we went in for the first appointment and I grew concerned, but didn't mention it. After going through a rather silent and ominous ultrasound (thanks for being personable nurse), we found out the fetus was not developing. My wife was five weeks pregnant at this point, and we were going to tell our families at Thanksgiving that week. The doctor said a miscarriage would be innevitable.

We started trying again in March, had another two miscarriages and a few unsuccessful tries.

I stopped in at home for lunch yesterday and found a note in the kitchen from my wife. Turns out she was late (which I knew), and had taken two tests (I knew she had taken one, but decided to wait for her to break the news to me). The two tests were positive, so things were looking up for us.

At least they were looking up for us until she got into work that day. She had a lot of bleeding and was concerned that it was another miscarriage. She called the clinic and they had her come in right away for some blood work and an ultrasound pending the results.

Here's the good news.

Turns out that we may have an explanation for why we've had so much trouble with this whole pregnancy thing. My wife has a heart shaped uterus which would be problematic if the embryo attaches to the septum rather than the exterior wall of the uterus. There isn't any tissue on the septum to support a fetus, so if one were to attach there it would most likely fail to develop. After getting a better idea as to what is going on, it also turns out that there was an embryo and it was attached in a much better spot so things are looking good. Then, to explain the bleeding, they found a 2nd embryo on the opposite wall which may not make it, which would explain what had happened yesterday.

So in the end, sounds like we have a pretty good shot at making this pregnancy work and it may just happen to be twins if the other embryo survives. We have an ultrasound next week and will be considered a high risk pregnancy so we should be getting plenty of attention. My wife may also require a cesarian section due to her uterus, which is a good thing considering I was 10lbs 9oz when I was born.

We're about 5-6 weeks pregnant right now, so we can't say for sure that everything will work out just yet. However, we went in at 5 weeks the first time and there was no development. This time, at 5 weeks we have what looked like a well developing embryo.

I'm starting to put together a list of names so that I'll be ready when she asks for them. Here's what I've got right now.

Chewebacca
Darth Vader
Bort