My husband and I have been married since June 12, 2006. He is in the Marine Corps and just recently re-enlisted for another four years. We began trying to have a baby when he returned from Iraq in March 2008, and I soon after became pregnant in June 2008. We were ecstatic. Unfortunately, I lost the baby at 6w2d. My mom (who i'm very close with) has a chromosome translocation, and struggled to have us three kids. She had 14 miscarriages. There wasn't the PGD invitro at that time, so she just had to keep trying. I knew it was a possibility I had the same thing, but my brother and sister were both tested via amnio and were not carriers, so I didn't think I was. I was tested a few weeks after my miscarriage. The results were that I was indeed a carrier. I took this harder than the miscarriage, I think. Or maybe I just felt the magnitude of it at that time. My husband was so supportive, and I just pushed everyone away. In October, I became pregnant again. I ended up losing it again Thanksgiving day at 6w1d. As hard as it was, I belive God allowed this to happen for a reason. This miscarriage made my husband and I even closer than we were before the first miscarriage happened. We leaned on each other this time, instead of pushing each other away. We found out we were going to be movin to Hawaii in January. We packed up all of our stuff and went home to Wisconsin for 20 days. Shortly after arriving in Hawaii, I found out I was pregnant again. This time I found out 5 days before my missed period...my hormones must have been high. I started getting sick (I never did with the others) and felt like all my pregnancy symtoms were intensified. Yesterday we had an ultrasound and saw a baby with a heartbeat. With the others, I had blighted ovums. We are ecstatic! Up until this point, we hadnt told anyone. We were very guarded against getting excited, but can now finally be excited! I feel like this is the perfect time and environment for us--we are at the best place in our marriage we ever have been. God has given us a little miracle!