infertility encouragement

Did you ever think you’d be that friend — the one who can’t get pregnant? How could infertility happen to YOU, of all people?

Infertility forces you to make some really tough decisions. Another round of meds? A new doctor? IVF? How do you know what God’s will is?

Do you feel like your spirit has been broken in the midst of your struggle with infertility? Don’t let Satan win.

Being barren can feel like a disgrace. It was no different for barren women in Biblical times. Thankfully, God’s plan isn’t any different either.

Do you feel like you’ve tried everything you can to get pregnant? Are you exhausted, upset, worried, and distracted? See what God’s word has to say about that.

How do you react when yet another of your friends “falls pregnant” or “accidentally gets pregnant” or “wasn’t even trying and got pregnant”? Read on to find out what Hannah did.

How long have you been waiting for a baby? What have you been doing while you wait?

Of all the negative emotions you go through with infertility (sadness, anger, bitterness, despair, frustration), the worst, for me, is the guilt. It’s a never-ending cycle; one feeling of guilt leads to another until I’m back where I started. And it leaves me thinking, in the end, that the real reason I don’t have a baby is because I don’t deserve one after all.

In the last couple of days I’ve both listened to a podcast and read a devotional that “coincidentally” happened to be on the same topic: John 21: 18-22. Somehow I’ve always seemed to gloss over this section—it’s one of the few chapters of the gospels in my Bible that has no highlighting or pencil marks on it.