At the end of 2021, I asked God if He had a word for us for the new year. He told me "jubilee." Naturally, I thought that had to do with fertility. This year, our seventh walking through infertility, turned out to be the hardest. We...
Our journey started as we approached our 2 year anniversary in Aug 2015. After several months of no positive tests we heard the news that no expectant couple wants to hear - due to male factor infertility conceiving naturally wasn’t in our favor & IVF was the...
I’ve come a long way in my journey to have a baby. I used to keep it all to myself. But back in 2019, I made the step to join a Moms in the Making virtual group and never looked back. God worked on me...
My husband and I were walked through infertility for over 7 years with a diagnosis of uterine fibroids and low motility for my husband. While waiting on our miracle baby, we fostered over 8 kids, and I attended Moms in the Making groups and saw a life coach. I had...
In April of 2021 we moved to Houston after spending 3 years in Baton Rouge and Canada before that. Several months later, in July, we lost our daughter at 17 weeks. It was during that same time that I started praying for a community who could encourage my...
We moved into our townhouse in 2015 after we were married. We loved it, but we knew it wasn't our forever home. We expected to bring home our first baby there, and began trying to conceive in 2017. In 2019, I had a dream of the...
We have been married for nine years. During that time, I experienced three ectopic pregnancies. My last ectopic was in November 2018, right when we were going to try our first IUI but I became pregnant naturally. We couldn’t resume fertility treatments until I was...
One year ago, we were at the condo with my husband’s family and I was about 8 weeks pregnant. It was the furthest I had ever made it in a pregnancy; the other 7 pregnancies I had miscarried by week 7. I was terrified, hopeful, scared,...
In August of 2019, I prepared my home for my first Moms in the Making meeting. I was officially co-leading a local in-person group in Green Bay, Wisconsin and was in desperate need for community. I knew two women planned to attend that first evening, but...
In 2018 my husband and I found out that a foster family program was about to start in our hometown and God moved our hearts to apply to foster a child. Later that year, we were welcoming a 2 year old into our home! It was love at first...