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Andy and I always knew we wanted children, but since we were married young, I made it a point to wait until I knew I was ready to start that phase of our life. I naively thought that the first time we'd try we would be successful. After all, my mother never had trouble getting pregnant, in fact, we teased her that dad would walk by the end of the bed and she'd wake up pregnant. We tried for 6 months and got a positive in January, 2011. A week later I miscarried.  At a follow-up doc appointment, we were told to wait a month to try again, but when I asked why, the doctor said there really wasn't a lot of research as to why, it was just a best practice. I'm inpatient, so I ignored the advice. After all, my body will do what it needs to do, right? We got pregnant again that next month, and found out in March. We were overjoyed once we passed the 5 week, 6 week, 7 week mark and on. Since timing was difficult to determine, I had an early ultrasound and they confirme