5 Things to Remember When the Doctor Says You’ll Never be a Mom
I still remember the doctor looking at me over the top of her glasses. “What this means,” she explained, “is that it is very probable you will never bear children.”
And something inside me just withered up and died right there.
I stumbled through weeks, then months, and then years before I finally started breathing easy again. Through the gentle love of friends, and the incredible grace of God, I learned five important things about facing life with the label of infertility.
1. Let yourself grieve. More than once.
When I found out that my sister-in-law was pregnant with twins, I cried huge blistering tears over the ultrasound pictures. And I thought, “There. I mourned never seeing an ultrasound of my own baby.”
Wrong.
Every few months I mourn the babies that will never be.
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