While many parents have no trouble starting a family, it can take other couples many years, many fertility treatments, and even many miscarriages to finally get pregnant and start a family.
For the past four years, Macy has given herself countless hormone injections, and has had three miscarriages. Yet for the first time ever, she’s happy to announce that she and her husband are expecting a baby due this October. “Our baby doesn’t erase years of loss, depression, hopelessness, pain, tears, and crying out to God. Our baby doesn’t replace the babies that were lost years before.”
Macy felt a typical baby announcement would gloss over the struggle and heartbreak they had faced over the years and instead shared her ‘infertility pregnancy announcement’ by showing all the things they had to do to get pregnant.
“It only took 4 years, 3 miscarriages, depression, 107 hormone injections, one surgery, two procedures, over 100 suppositories, and several thousand dollars to get our baby. You might ask how I say that we’re lucky. We’re lucky because we get to have a baby,” Macy wrote in a post on her blog.
“What our baby does do is fill us with a love and joy and gratefulness that I never knew possible. When I look at that ultrasound my heart actually skips,” she said.
“For years I lived never knowing if I would ever have an ultrasound photo hanging on my fridge,” Macy wrote. “If I would ever have a bump or see that coveted stretch mark on my belly, or if the baby clothes I bought for friends would ever hang in my own home. If life would ever grow inside of me. And against all odds, it does.”
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Mom-To-Be Honors Infertility Struggles With Sweet Pregnancy Announcement is an article from: LifeDaily