Infertility is a disease, and if you have been diagnosed, you are not alone. According to The Center for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 1 in 8 couples of childbearing age have difficulty conceiving or carrying a pregnancy to term.
Infertility can affect anyone, any age, gender, race ect... If you have a child or children and find it difficult to conceive or carry its called secondary infertility.
We learned that infertility affects not only the couple trying but their families moms, dads, siblings and so on.
We learned that this journey was going to be long and it would test our marriage, our faith, and our ability to believe in ourselves. It has made us feel every emotion a person can feel happy, sad, angry, helpless, hopeful, hopeless, grief, jealousy, envy, heartache, joy, excitement, depression and the list goes on and on...
We have missed out on a lot of family functions because being the only couple there without kids became unbearable. We have cried in the most silly of places example: walking by the baby aisle in a store or watching tv. We've learned to be strong when falling apart was easier. We learned to lean on each other rather than push each other away.
We learned to accept infertility and its challenges. Its just that a challenge and we plan on succeeding in this rocky road of a challenge. We have grown so much over the last few years and even though we have been pushed to the brink of giving up we haven't and we don't plan on giving up either. We were given this journey for a reason and we can only pray and hope that we will achieve our goal in becoming parents.
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