Fertile Mertil?

April is infertility aweareness month. I have decided after great consideration to share my story. I have endometriosis which can make it hard to get pregnant. I also have a lot of the same health problems that my dear Grandma Holman has. We both developed arthritis at a young age, she also had endometriosis and we are both very prone to blood clots just to name a few. My grandma told me that her and my grandpa had tried for three years to get pregnant with my uncle Jeff and that her doctor was amazed that she was able to have three children. She wanted to have more, but the doctor told her that her body wouldn't be able to handle birthing another child. So with that she had to stop. Two years into our marriage we decided to stop using birth control to see what would happen since there were some known issues I have with getting pregnant in hopes that we would get pregnant someday. It only took three years, just like grandma! Now I loved having five years of hubby's and me time. It was a wonderful time that made us inseparable. And we were able to have many adventures together. The first year without baby didn't bother us, but well into the second year of trying it started to freak me out. I started to investigate farther and realized I don't ovulate every month. We talked about adopting in our thirties if we still had no luck. I was hesitant on trying fertility treatments and wanted to wait until I was at least 27 to go that route. As I think I am still pretty young. There was a lot of waiting and a lot of let downs. The hardest part was actually the constant question from others of when we were going to start a family. Stinkers. That is one question I am very careful to only ask close friends. Anywho, I will never forget that very special night we found out that I was pregnant with my baby. Words can't describe how amazing it felt to know that we were going to be parents. And I must say we lucked out with how wonderful our sweet baby is.

I know that there are others that have had a much harder time than we had getting pregnant, my hope is that our story may bring comfort to any of my peeps that may be going through something similiar and happen to read this. Children are such a blessing and anyone who is lucky enough to care for a child is beyond blessed. I hope and pray that we may all treat children with great love, respect, a sense of humor and understanding.

Becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love

Mosiah 3:19