Category: Marriage
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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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Entering into the Tomb
During lent of last year, I began praying the Servite Rosary. Rather than five decades of Hail Marys, each meditating on a portion of Christ’s life, the Servite Rosary has seven septets of Hail Marys, each meditating on a particular sorrow of Mary. I fell in love with the seven sorrows of Mary. I found…
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Infertility as Disease: Accepting and Navigating the Medical Side of Infertility
It was my first Mother’s Day mass after being married. The previous month I had an experience where I was sure I was pregnant. I can’t explain this experience, and no test I took that month was positive. But the next cycle did arrive later than usual and with more pain than normal. During the…
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