Comments on: Think & Share

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:40:54 +0000

I am so glad that you have this website! Mother’s day was especially hard for me this year because my mother came down and couldn’t stop looking at all the babies in our ward. Also my sister in law is 19 and pregnant. Our ward is a married college ward with tons of pregnant bellies and little babies. It is so difficult to look at the positives right now. We have decided to wait a year because of debts, but I have such huge mixed emotions about waiting. I love my husband. He is so supportive and loving about it all. Where we fail to concieve we succeed in being parents to everyone and everything else. Our babies at the moment are our fish, our garden and our lizard. We talk baby talk, feed and play with them all..even the plants(ok it’s really just me who is doing that to the plants). I love my father also. My father is more understanding than my mother at the moment. He looked at me and my hubby fonding over our “Babies” and said, “Boy, you two need a baby bad.” I know that he means that as a joke and he is not pressuring at all, but it hurts when my mother gives me “That look” everytime she sees a baby. I hope that with your help I can start to look at the positives and feel the support that you will give. Thank you again!

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:28:55 +0000

Motherhood does not require giving birth!

I have been dealing with infertility for nearly 30 years. I, too, experienced a “miracle” pregnancy with my daughter. Gratefully after ten years, we realized “the stork” is alive and well and delivers. We adopted our son. Therefore, I have experienced it all – infertility, pregnancy and adoption. Though I am the mother of two children, my heart cannot forget the aches of infertility. I feel like part of my challenge that Heavenly Father has given me is to help others to deal with infertility, give them comfort, educate and direct them to sharing like this website. Thank you for publicly talking about infertility because it is a dark-closet-like topic. Thank you for providing a “safe” place to share such deep, intimate feelings that usually no one understands unless they have been there.

Heavenly Father KNOWS our challenges and He is there to listen.

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 12 May 2010 11:20:51 +0000

I appreciate your tips for dealing with Mothers Day this month. I think I finally found peace with my infertility this year. I realized during the last year that I will probably never be a mother, in the sense that I will never have children. My husband is against adoption and I will never be able to have a successful pregnancy. However, I know that Heavenly Father gives us each our own special challenges to overcome, and this is mine. I can still be the world’s greatest aunt! I can love and serve children in a variety of ways. Not having children does not mean that my Heavenly Father loves me any less or does not trust me with one of his special spirits, which is how I felt for a long time. I am thankful for this website and the knowledge that I am not alone in my struggles, even if they are very personal.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:10:06 +0000

I am so glad to have this website, thank you! I never thought that it would be a struggle to get pregnant, and even though it was only a year long struggle for us, it was still the hardest most trying year of our life. We were lucky enough to be able to find out what our infertility issues were and were even luckier to have a successful pregnancy after receiving medical intervention, but infertility is something we will most likely struggle with each time we want to have another child. It is comforting to know there are others out there who have the same struggles as us and who can relate to how we feel and have felt. There really is strength in numbers!

By: Aundria

Aundria — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:27:50 +0000

I am so greatful for the website. My husband and I have been dealing with infertility for almost 8 years now and were to afraid to talk about it. Now I feel that we can now educate ourselves! It has been really hard to admit that we had a problem in the baby making area. Now I think that with this site all who deal on a day to day basis the heartache that comes with infertility can find the way that is right for us. We can become one in our fight to tell people that we are okay and not to judge us because we are unable to have a child. Which, let’s face it, is why I have not told anyone about my problem is the fear of what people might think of me. Thank you so much Kerstin, I love the site.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:32:13 +0000

Kerstin,

I love this website. It will be a tremendous support to countless husbands and wives who are dealing with infertility. Hopefully people can find strength in realizing that this struggle is more common than we may suppose. I also hope it will give people a sense of worth, understanding that there is so much that we can contribute to this world and our families, even if we do not have a score of children.