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023: Our infertility story + how it's impacting me today
Coming off of National Infertility Awareness Week, I wanted to go back to 2017 and share my own personal experience with infertility.
Infertility isn't over the moment you get a positive. Your heart isn't magically healed, the pain doesn't disappear overnight, and the depression and sadness you felt over the past two years isn't just magically replaced with rainbows and butterflies. You don’t just get to escape the statistic of ‘1 in 8’. It just becomes a part of your story.
I remember trying to PUSH it away and put all of my attention into the amazing news I had. It was OVER, right? We finally received what we PRAYED FOR and everyone was telling me how GRATEFUL and HAPPY I should be. I was and I am. Holding my babies in my arms is the most incredible thing to have ever happened to me.
Bringing Sutton into the world after multiple IUI'S and years of no answers is a MIRACLE.
Having Saylor after miscarriage and multiple medicated cycles is a MIRACLE.
But the truth is that I am still a work in a progress, I'm still healing and very much aware of the trauma that came from this process.
I know now that God put me through it so I could GROW through it. There was a purpose behind my pain and I have the ability to impact so many women facing it as I type. But the truth is, I'm still one of them. I don't want to forget the struggle, because that brought us here. God doesn't bring us through a valley with the intention of bringing us out & us FORGETTING what it took to get there.
The test is the testimony.
The mess becomes the message.
This podcast is my story.
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Talked about in show:
- Baby Beach Packing List
Resources for YOU:
- Join SHE RISES Wellness Collective
- Follow me on Instagram
- Fight Back Motherhood Course
- Nurturing Your Time Course
- 8 Week Family Meal Plan
- Hormone Safe Supplements
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By Kelsey Smith
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Coming off of National Infertility Awareness Week, I wanted to go back to 2017 and share my own personal experience with infertility.
Infertility isn't over the moment you get a positive. Your heart isn't magically healed, the pain doesn't disappear overnight, and the depression and sadness you felt over the past two years isn't just magically replaced with rainbows and butterflies. You don’t just get to escape the statistic of ‘1 in 8’. It just becomes a part of your story.
I remember trying to PUSH it away and put all of my attention into the amazing news I had. It was OVER, right? We finally received what we PRAYED FOR and everyone was telling me how GRATEFUL and HAPPY I should be. I was and I am. Holding my babies in my arms is the most incredible thing to have ever happened to me.
Bringing Sutton into the world after multiple IUI'S and years of no answers is a MIRACLE.
Having Saylor after miscarriage and multiple medicated cycles is a MIRACLE.
But the truth is that I am still a work in a progress, I'm still healing and very much aware of the trauma that came from this process.
I know now that God put me through it so I could GROW through it. There was a purpose behind my pain and I have the ability to impact so many women facing it as I type. But the truth is, I'm still one of them. I don't want to forget the struggle, because that brought us here. God doesn't bring us through a valley with the intention of bringing us out & us FORGETTING what it took to get there.
The test is the testimony.
The mess becomes the message.
This podcast is my story.
----------------
Talked about in show:
- Baby Beach Packing List
Resources for YOU:
- Join SHE RISES Wellness Collective
- Follow me on Instagram
- Fight Back Motherhood Course
- Nurturing Your Time Course
- 8 Week Family Meal Plan
- Hormone Safe Supplements