Infertility Support Group
In vitro fertilization is one of the most common and utilized ways of treating conception problems. This support group is dedicated to those beginning their journey with IVF and needing support. Join the community and share your experiences, advice, and story with people going through similar challenges starting a family.
I wish I knew who wrote this so I could give credit to her. This is something I think everyone should read!
What Do I Think God Meant When He Gave Me Infertility?
Couples experiencing infertility often receive well-meaning but extremely insensitive "advice." We can all list the most popular ones: "Just relax and you'll get pregnant," or "Adopt and you'll get pregnant," or "Things happen for a reason," and of the most painful: from those who think they've got the goods on God's plan, "Maybe God never meant for you to have children." The sheer audacity of making a statement like that never fails to amaze me. The same people would never walk up to someone seeking treatment for cancer and say, "Maybe God never meant for you to live." However, because I am infertile, I'm supposed to get on with my life. It's hard to understand that people can not see infertility for what it is: a disease for which I have to seek treatment. What if Jonas Salk had said to the parents of polio victims, "Maybe God meant for thousands of children to be cripples, live in an iron lung, or die." What if he'd never tried to find a cure? Who could think for a minute that that was God's plan?
What do I think God meant when He gave me infertility? I think He meant for my husband and I to grow closer, become stronger, love deeper. I think God meant for us to find the fortitude within ourselves to get up every time infertility knocks us down. I think God meant for our medical community to discover medicines, invent medical equipment, create procedures and protocols. I think God meant for us to find a cure for infertility.
No, God never meant for me not to have children. That's not my destiny; that's just a fork in the road I'm on. I've been placed on the road less traveled, and, like it or not, I'm a better person for it. Clearly, God meant for me to develop more compassion, deeper courage, and greater inner strength on this journey to resolution, and I haven't let him down. Frankly, if the truth be known, I think God has singled me out for a special treatment. I think God meant for me to build a thirst for a child so strong and so deep that when that baby is finally placed in my arms, it will the longest, coolest, most refreshing drink I've ever known...Yes, one way or another, I will have a baby...and the next time someone wants to offer me unsolicited advice I'll say, "Don't tell me what God meant when He handed me infertility. I already know."
What Do I Think God Meant When He Gave Me Infertility?
Couples experiencing infertility often receive well-meaning but extremely insensitive "advice." We can all list the most popular ones: "Just relax and you'll get pregnant," or "Adopt and you'll get pregnant," or "Things happen for a reason," and of the most painful: from those who think they've got the goods on God's plan, "Maybe God never meant for you to have children." The sheer audacity of making a statement like that never fails to amaze me. The same people would never walk up to someone seeking treatment for cancer and say, "Maybe God never meant for you to live." However, because I am infertile, I'm supposed to get on with my life. It's hard to understand that people can not see infertility for what it is: a disease for which I have to seek treatment. What if Jonas Salk had said to the parents of polio victims, "Maybe God meant for thousands of children to be cripples, live in an iron lung, or die." What if he'd never tried to find a cure? Who could think for a minute that that was God's plan?
What do I think God meant when He gave me infertility? I think He meant for my husband and I to grow closer, become stronger, love deeper. I think God meant for us to find the fortitude within ourselves to get up every time infertility knocks us down. I think God meant for our medical community to discover medicines, invent medical equipment, create procedures and protocols. I think God meant for us to find a cure for infertility.
No, God never meant for me not to have children. That's not my destiny; that's just a fork in the road I'm on. I've been placed on the road less traveled, and, like it or not, I'm a better person for it. Clearly, God meant for me to develop more compassion, deeper courage, and greater inner strength on this journey to resolution, and I haven't let him down. Frankly, if the truth be known, I think God has singled me out for a special treatment. I think God meant for me to build a thirst for a child so strong and so deep that when that baby is finally placed in my arms, it will the longest, coolest, most refreshing drink I've ever known...Yes, one way or another, I will have a baby...and the next time someone wants to offer me unsolicited advice I'll say, "Don't tell me what God meant when He handed me infertility. I already know."
I think we infertile women - and men - are stronger than most people. The desire in me is so strong that I will never give up. Thank you for posting this.
Before knowing I was infertile, I was (and I believe that I am still) your typical go-getter, I would put my mind to something, find a way to do it and simply do it. Infertility taught me that there are things that are above me, that there are greater things/forces and that I am not strong or invincible enough to fight.
Like all of you, I want nothing more than have a baby; unlike most of you, I dont think I am strong enough to keep going at this until "it finally works"; I am giving myself this chance and there might be a next one if this one doesnt work, but after that, I will be looking for other options (adopting); because I have never lived anything more emotionally draining and that affected so many aspects of my life as this.
So, yes... God makes us infertile because there are lessons to be learned.
It really hit home with me today.
Motherhood will happen for all of us ladies!!
Blessings to you for sharing:)