We were encouraged before the most recent Moms in the Making conference to come with something specific we were seeking the Lord for. This year for me, that was physical healing. For over four years, I’d had physical pain that began after my first miscarriage, lower pelvic pain, always on the left side. It started small but gradually got worse,
My husband and I went through years of infertility. After meeting with a specialist and looking at our options, we personally felt that not to go the medical route. I cried out with everything in me. I poured my heart out to God, crying, lashing out, giving Him my anger, my rage, my disappointment, my disgust, my hope, my sorrow,
I was diagnosed with PCOS in 2016 but after only a month of meds I conceived my son, Hunter. So when we started trying for #2 I didn’t think it would be difficult. Our first medicated cycle at the fertility clinic was successful but then we quickly lost the baby. Our first IUI was also successful before another baby went to heaven.
I am a planner. After having a rough childhood, I had plans for my life that would break generational cycles & curses. I had plans to go to college, become a kindergarten teacher, and meet a wonderful man. We would get married, have babies, and live happily forever. And by 2015, at 25, I had all those things checked off my
As a teenager I didn’t care that I didn’t see a period much, I just pretended to get it in order to not be ridiculed by my peers. It wasn’t until I got married, and talked about kids that I decided I needed to be seen for it. I was told due to my conditions, that it would be near
My husband and I started trying for a baby in January of 2015. I was diagnosed with PCOS at 15 so I knew it could be a little difficult, but I never thought it would take years. After 2 years of “tricks,” not trying, timing, Metformin, lots of prayers, and two babies in heaven, we decided to give Femara a
“We saw a fertility specialist almost 2 years ago after we had been TTC for a little over a year. I was diagnosed with PCOS and went through 3 test rounds with no luck of pregnancy. I was told that although I ovulate on my own that the medicine I was given to thicken my lining was not getting the
“My husband Robbie and I decided to start trying for children after being married for about two years. I ditched the birth control after ten years and patiently waited for a monthly cycle. My cycle never came so after seeing my obgyn I was given medication to induce a cycle and another medication to induce ovulation. I didn’t ovulate even
“After three months of Lupron, my doctor felt confident my body was ready to conceive. I tracked ovulation for several months, but I was still not ovulating; therefore, we started medicated cycles..Caroline’s September 2016 blog post titled “Praying Bold Prayers” encouraged me and my husband to pray more intentionally for our future children by name. We prayed for a son,
“After trying to get pregnant for 2 years, we didn’t have any answers. We had completed 4 medicated cycles with an RE, I had 2 surgeries, and we received the vague diagnosis of ovulation disorder and adhesions that did not seem to affect pelvis. After the 4th cycle, the RE said IVF was our only option under his care. Holding
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