We married in 2012 and after 5 years of marriage decided to start trying to get pregnant. A few years later, I began to be frustrated and started seeking medical opinions. In March 2018, I received a word from God that said, “He will give me...
I've wanted to be a mom for as long as I can remember. As a planner, I picked what I thought was the perfect time to have our first child based on my husband's demanding schedule in medical school. In September 2019 we started trying,...
In January 2021, after a failed IUI, I came to Moms in the Making with a heart full of anger and with the question, “why me?” I always thought that if I had enough money for the fertility treatments that this wouldn’t happen to me. I went through...
The Lord brought us Joy in our waiting. When people find out we have done IVF, they often feel sorry for us, but my husband summed it up well: "we are grateful for our season of infertility." Through it all, God taught us how to find our...
2022 was a year of completely trusting in God and walking in His will for my life, fully. At the beginning of 2022 we did our second IUI, unfortunately it was unsuccessful. We took a couple of months off and I went to the leader...
My husband I got married in 2015. We decided to wait to try to have kids until the spring of 2017 in hopes that we’d have children close in age to my sister’s children. After a year of trying with no success, we were diagnosed...
After our third round of IVF and finding IVF “support” Facebook groups hopeless, I stumbled across and joined Moms in the Making in 2019. I attended a virtual group and went to my first MITM conference in 2020. At my first conference, I believe God gave...
In April of 2012 my husband and I began trying to have a baby. After about a year of trying we saw a fertility specialist and did testing. Our test results came back with a few things that seemed relatively fixable with some medication. Still...
We lost three pregnancies between the ages of 37-39. At 39, we started IVF. I was hesitant, believing that I was trying to overrule God by making a baby happen. He reminded me through this journey that I don’t have that kind of power! Right before...
I got diagnosed with a disease called neurofibromatosis 3 months before I got married. It's a disease where tumors can grow on any nerve in your body. At the time, we didn't know much about it and didn't know it would effect our decision on...