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Baby, Faith, Loss, Motherhood
July 16, 2019
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Wrestling With Infertility and Faith

I think at some level I always knew. In our first year of marriage, I told my husband that I wanted to start trying to conceive before we were…

Baby, Marriage, Motherhood
June 29, 2019
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Squeeze the Oranges You Have

My husband worries when I start to drink a glass of wine. Not at all because I have a problem. But because one glass often leads to a partial glass…

Baby, Friendship, Grief, Loss
June 19, 2019
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Dear Friends Having Babies, I’m Happy For You Through My Pain

To my friends having babies: you are not my trigger. The past six months have been challenging for my family. We live in beautiful, but sometimes…

Baby, Faith, Motherhood
June 18, 2019
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You Were Given a Mothering Heart and God Makes No Mistakes

Dear infertile me, Infertility does not define you. What defines you is the cross that has the ability to heal all things. You were given a mothering…

Baby, Loss, Motherhood
June 2, 2019
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Infertility Stole the Joy of Motherhood

“I’m going to be a mother” was something I avoided saying out loud. Sometimes I dared to think it, but struggling with infertility…

Baby, Grief, Loss
May 21, 2019
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To the Woman With the Aching Heart and Empty Womb

To the sad woman in the OB/Gyn waiting room, I see you. I know why you’re here. Don’t worry, I won’t tell the others. I get you. I…

Baby, Loss, Motherhood
May 16, 2019
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The Invisible Mother Hurts and Hopes

In a world full of mothers, so many of them seem to go unnoticed, unrecognized. Forgotten. They belong to a special class of mothers who walk amongst…

Baby, Motherhood
May 1, 2019
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A Month in the Life of Trying

Another month has come and gone without getting those two pink lines on that stick. Even though you did everything humanly possible to try to get the…