Prepare emotionally for the holidays No matter where you are in your infertility journey the holidays can be hard. Hopefully you will get some ideas to help you this holiday season so you are not blindsided like I was a few years ago….Let me start by saying I thought I was ready for the holidays.…
My Uterus Ruptured! Now What About my Baby? …
All lives matter, even those unborn. Angels have a purpose in each of our lives. This song is meant to give hope and love to all those that have experienced a loss of any kind. Many women have lost their babies to miscarriage. Many are silently suffering the loss of these little ones because they think…
My sophomore year of college I went on a walk with my best friend. The topic of our conversation was what we pictured for our lives in the next ten years. I had visions of finishing school, getting married, and having four kids all by the time I was 30. My plans worked…
Getting Pregnant is not a Skill! I didn’t exercise today. Instead, I came back from babysitting everybody else’s children (the life of a teacher) to my big childless home and rested in pain on the couch until 9 pm. The culprit? Cramps. The kind that come around every month as a reminder that…
Both Sides of the Pregnancy Announcement -By Melissa Campbell & Melanie Smoot Melissa’s Side of this story How do you react when someone tells you their good news? They’re pregnant! Are you instantly excited for them and want to know every detail so you can live through them? Do you get emotional and start to…
We made a little Video Series Sharing how 5 Women who Struggle with Infertility cope with Mothers Day. First up Tedi… Then Melissa Next up Cindy And Cute Shawnee Next is Jess Please let us know how you plan to cope with Mother’s Day… Click here to see how Heidi has found a way…
There are many ways to be a Mother. Yes, you can give birth and mother a child. You can foster or adopt a child. You can mother a niece or nephew. Heidi and Brett have chosen a special way to parent. Heidi and Brett have had a dance studio for 36 years during that time…
What About me? Sometimes I get my best inspiration in the shower, usually while washing my hair. Yesterday morning….I began pondering about life’s adversity and challenges. I started comparing my challenges to others and even wondered…why me? I asked myself and God…what about me? Only a brief moment later another thought came to…
What do you do for comfort? Consider these three ideas, Comfort Items, Comfort Music, Comfort Food. When you think of Comfort items do you think of teddy bears? Bikinis and blankets? Often we think of children when we think of comfort items. But even adults need Comfort items. We may only need them for a…