Category: Infertility
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Trust: The Heart of NFP
I will forever remember the first time I tried to educate somebody else about NFP. I was explaining that NFP along with natural reproductive technology, or NaPro, could actually provide health solutions for most problems treated by the pill. My audience: my junior level morality class. I am one of the first in a generation…
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TTC: On the Other Side of NFP
In our marriage prep, we’d heard about the stresses of NFP. We’d heard about the difficulties of choosing to abstain during times of fertility rather than choosing a form of birth control. We’d heard that NFP could cause fights and at times resentment. Everything we’d heard about the difficulties of NFP prior to our marriage was…
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For Nothing is Impossible with God: An Update on Our Journey with Infertility
This is a post written during my pregnancy with Madeleine that I had not gotten a chance to publish. Many of you may know by now that we are expecting our first child. It took 698 miles, over twelve months of blood draws, over twelve months on progesterone and estrogen, nine months of Clomid, two…
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An Experience with Faithfulness
I was around 13 weeks pregnant when a friend, upon hearing that we were expecting and knowing of our struggles with infertility, looked at me and asked me, “What has your experience of God’s faithfulness been throughout this journey?” I stared. My mind was blank. The Lord’s faithfulness? The thought had barely crossed my mind.…
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A Letter to my Future Children
When Nicholas and I decided to be open to children from the beginning of our marriage, we both hoped for the best. I could never have anticipated the heartbreak that has accompanied us on our journey towards having a child. I broke down the night after I took a negative pregnancy test during our fourth…
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