Friends Inspire Us

Sometimes just a simple text with a few words can lift our spirits more than hug:)

Happy Anniversary/Birthday!

Happy Birthday to the 1st IVF baby Louise Brown!

Today is my 3 year wedding anniversary.  I am so blessed to have a loving husband:)  Today also is the Birthday of Louise Brown!  We wish her a very happy birthday and many more!!!

Unsung Lullabies

Unsung Lullabies

Understanding & Coping with Infertility

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This book has truly helped me along this journey...

Family faces

"family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future."

There is hope...!

Faces of infertility

Thank you, Lord, for all the blessings in my life. Help me to remember them as I face the challenges of infertility. I pray that I can surrender myself into your hands. Let me accept the reality of this situation and have the wisdom and courage to take action where I can. Strengthen my body, mind and spirit to endure the trials of infertility. Keep me ever mindful of the needs of others and grant us your peace. Amen.

My fur baby Max!

His love is so unconditional he wants to be by my side everywhere!

BELIEVE

Conception Prayer

A Prayer for The Conception of a Child

Lord, help me to know that You are enough.
Take my eyes off of myself.
Take my eyes off of the child I desire.
Help me to delight myself in You.
Mold the desires of my heart to be in line with Your will.
I don't want to need to be a mother more than I need to be your humble, obedient child.
I don't want wanting to have a baby to be a stumbling block between You and me anymore.

Lord, I want to give this desire, this drive, this ache up to You.
Help me not to snatch it back as I so often do with the burdens I place in Your hands.
Help me to be truly content with Your will and Your timing.

Lord, You know that I still desire a baby - someone to mold, teach, train, shape, guide, and help to grow in You.
But until the day You give me that joyous blessing, help me to grow in You.
Let me reach out to those around me.
Let me witness and minister to the children You place in my path.

Lord, if adoption is the path You would have us take, prepare our hearts, and prepare the child who will share our home.
If adoption is not Your will for our lives, keep me from pushing ahead of Your plan.
Help me to stay submitted to my husband's will, and to Your will.
If we are headed in the wrong direction, change our hearts.

Thank You for lifting my burden.
Help me to keep You first! Let me seek Your face daily, and let me know that You are enough!

Fertility Prayer by Jennifer Saake 

How many more times must I see this?

Meditate

Fertility Meditation



 

~ become aware of your breathing

~ rhythmically in and out .. in and out....in and out

~ feel a warm glow arising in your heart in anticipation

~ slowly keep breathing in and out ....

~ feel the presence of spirit

~ feel that your are looked after ...

~ feel like you can let yourself be caught in the wide outstretched arms of an angel

~ feel yourself relax and let go

~ slowly become aware of any ideas that exist within you waiting to be born

~ shift your focus onto what it is that you wish to be born or put into existence at this time

~ feel a creative transformative energy arising from deep within your womb

~ feel its warmth washing over you

~ see yourself welcoming the warmth

~ when you feel that all that can be done is done start coming back into awareness of the space you are in

~ begin to wriggle your feet and hands and touch the floor and bring yourself into the here and now

~ smile:))))

It might work best if you have someone read this fertility meditation to you if you want to meditate with your partner together, my husband and I have been meditating for over a year now and it has helped us relax tremendously.

Watch this!

A Portrait of INFERTILITY by Keiko Zoll

Nightstand

On  
my 
nightstand...

African Fertility Doll - from Mom

Words of Encouragement Book –

    from Cousin

Angel - from Grandma

Cross - from Best Friend

Leaf of Prosperity - from Hubby’s

    Family

What’s on yours?

What is on your reading list?

Words across the miles

When family is far away words of love and inspiration really help!

THANK 

YOU

T I F F I N I

I love you so so much!

Walk On 


Great video with Kellie Coffey song I would like to share that I watched today!

Poem

I would like to share this poem I read today on a site called fertility moon...

The Stir of Ripeness

I have come upon a spell of stillness
out of the mainstream current
a little bay, a sheltered pocket
visited by boat and sea.
The water surges up, searching its mark
carving its furrows, ebbing away.
The bay stretches and resounds
in scalloped rings upon the sands.
Lost to sight now the lone stroke
of the swimmer on the high seas;
the cove curls round its own curve
pondering, brooding, waiting.

I am already making a space
my belly a rich loamy lining
warm hollow, a barrel of grin
a grass-thick valley, a nestful of birds
a bowl of still water, a whirling eddy
a vat full of wine, chalice of grail
an eye full of tear, a bay full of sea
a well earth-deep, a bell of bronze.
The whole of my cupped life
is streaming slowly through me
down the glass-green shaft;
all possibilities and impossibilities
array themselves before me -
I prepare myself to bear a mystery.

trying to conceive poem by
ROSEMARY PALMEIRA

Empty Arms

♥ ‎”There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.” -Charlotte Bronte

My journey

My journey through infertility is very painful for me and it is a complex medical issue. I feel horrible, empty and broken. It is incredibly hard to focus on my day to day life when I am hurting so much inside. It takes an amazing amount of effort to keep forging through with a smile.:) Please understand that if things were as easy as just relax/you have plenty of time/if it's meant to be and so forth... then infertility simply wouldn’t exist. I have an illness. Infertility is a disease. It affects 1 in 8 couples. Unless you have been there, nothing you can say will fix things. The most supportive thing you can do is smile :), say I love you and I am sorry your going through this… love, J 

 If you want to understand more of what I am going through go to national infertility site http://www.resolve.org/