Through The Pain Of Infertility, Tough Decisions Must Be Made

Filed under: Health — jimmy @ 11:18 am

What choice do couples have when natural child birth is impossible?

While my life is pretty much an open book in the more than 2,000 columns I have written here, today I’m gonna share with you something very personal about an issue I have been dealing with in my life that I’ve never talked about before. It doesn’t really have anything to do with livin’ la vida low-carb, but I think is an important discussion to have on a web site like this one. Since I value the opinions of my readers, I welcome any comments and feedback you may have based on your own experiences and expertise.

My beautiful wife Christine and I got married in August 1995 with high hopes that we could be together forever, start a family, and watch our children go through this thing called life. When we got married in our early 20’s, we never thought about the idea of this dream not coming true.

But here it is 12 years later and that’s exactly where we are.

We’ve been trying desperately to have kids since our honeymoon night and were trusting that the Lord would provide this wondrous blessing in His timing. After buying enough home pregnancy tests over the years to fund a small country, we’ve been disappointed over and over again many times. The closest we ever got to having a baby was when we accidentally found out Christine was early on in her first trimester when she had a miscarriage shortly after we were married. We were devastated at the time, but knew we had some time.

Or so we thought.

Click here to read more about our infertility and the decisions we must come to grips with if having children is in our future. Your feedback and experiences are MORE than welcome. THANK YOU!