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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Dear Someday Baby, I Long For You
Dear Someday Baby, Sometimes it feels as if I’ll never get to meet you. You see, we’ve been trying for you, for quite a while now. …
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This is Infertility
I see you. I see you buying the 50-pack of ovulation sticks from Amazon, because your cycle is never regular. I see you using those sticks…
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