Christian ladies TTC, we can encourage one another.

[Godsjewel]

Ladies please pray for my husband. His job is being real funky right now he's just so fed up...and honestly so am I. It's causing problems with us, most likely cause of all the stress. Please pray he gets another job asap! He has an interview for one and a few that are interested but haven't scheduled the interview yet. Thank you in advance.

I'm in the same boat as you sis. My husband stresses so much at his job and they keep changing things that make it harder on him. He now does 2-3 times more work but gets paid the same. He has to stay with this job because his insurance pays for our IVF treatments, if it wasn't for me, he would of left a long time ago.

I will be praying that he has favor and the door will be open for him.

How are things going Sar with hubs work? x

He's hanging in there, but I know it's hard on him and some days are better than others. But once we are done with treatments, I pray that God opens the door with a job that will appreciate him and his hard work and dedication.

 

[xxx_faithful]

CALLING ALL LADIES TTC THEIR FIRST CHILD !!!

I have been thinking alot about fears, woman's fears in general. As loving as we are by nature to others, we have a hard time coming around to loving ourselves. Even the best of us are haunted by our conscious or sub-conscious fears. Weather we like it (or aware) of it or not.

Are we pretty enough? Are we slim enough? Are we loved enough? Or is your fear, Am i enough?

The fears dont seem to be an outward notion, but an inward thing. It starts off with fear, then with anxiety of the fear. We then go to the Dr's and are told confirmation of what we feared and so on.

We can be walking alongside God and still fear, we must speak authority OVER the fear. We must CAST OUT the fear. Not simply see it and be fearful of the fear.

Today i ask, what are you fearing about your fertility? Are you casting out your fears? Or are you speaking them into reality? I am a firm believer of modern medicine, and just as a fan of the spiritual whelm too. God has given us a powerful weapon, our tongue to confess what is. And what is, is God and God's word. God wants us to become mothers, to become parents. Will you let your words today destroy your fear or water it?

I ask ladies, if you are ttc your first child could you please refresh me on who you are and what you are fearing. I would like to PM and pray for you. Thanks xxx

 

[blue33]

xxxfaithful, my biggest ttc fear is actually just not being able to conceive again, or that if I do conceive again I will MC. So, actually my fear is most likely never having a precious little one of our own. I don't think that I will ever be truly happy in life without a child of our own, neither will my dh.

 

[ProfWife]

Similar to Blue - I'm most afraid that it isn't in God's plan for us to have biological children...never to have someone with Daddy's good looks and my sarcasm and charm ;-) We're perfectly fine with adoption if that's the plan...but I fear I'll always have the thought of what could have been. It's also scary for us to be in the "unexplained" area since I'm apparently healthy except for the PCOS (which appears to be in a remission state) and he has only mildly slow boys.

 

[Jett55]

I def have the same fears as you ladies.. I worry that I won't ever be mom or have our own biological child. I also think what if I'm not good enough to be a mom. What if it isn't in Gods plan for us to be parents.

 

[blue33]

xxxfaithful, thank you so much and congratulations on you're little one I am so happy for you!!!

It has been a very long road, but I do believe I will try as long as it takes. Hopefully we will find out that we are able to do the low cost ivf at our first fs appointment, and it will work for us. I just keep praying! October 10th can't come soon enough! !

Oh thank you i am so happy for me too lol. Dont listen to all those moppy mums out there, it really is the best and most cherished gift you will ever have. Motherhood to me is easy, yep easy. Because ive been on the other side crying for a baby to be born and know what that yearning feels like. I ask God everyday, to let my pain be forgotten but let my testimony outlive my life.

Low cost ivf? What do the Dr's think seem to be the matter with your fertility ? (just so i know what im praying for) xxx

Low cost ivf is just ivf without the cost if most of the medications. I will still need to take something like clomid to help with follicle stimulation. I haven't had any blood work ups done yet, but I'm assuming that they'll do them at our first fs appointment. Our fertility issue is that I only have one tube and it's blocked. My dh is scheduled for a sa, but my ob/gyn didn't seem to worried that he was part of our issue since we have had 4 bfp's, they just always ended in mc or ectopics. Hopefully if my bloodwork comes back good we will be candidates for the low cost route. Thank you for your prayers!!!

 

[Godsjewel]

12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand,

And marked off the heavens by the span,

And calculated the dust of the earth by the measure,

And weighed the mountains in a balance

And the hills in a pair of scales?

13 Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD,

Or as His counselor has informed Him?

14 With whom did He consult and who gave Him understanding?

And who taught Him in the path of justice and taught Him knowledge

And informed Him of the way of understanding?

15 Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,

And are regarded as a speck of dust on the scales;

Behold, He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
Isaiah 40:12-15

I was running late for church, and thought I would slip in the back door, unnoticed. The students were offering a dramatic presentation and the lights were off except for a spotlight on the main character on center stage. To be honest, I don’t really know what the point of the drama was. I just remember the line the young lady was speaking as I was quietly sneaking down the side aisle. She was quite dramatically saying “I can understand why God would love pastors and missionaries. I can even understand why He would love me. But I don’t understand how He could ever love someone like her!”

At that moment, the spotlight was to shift to a shabbily dressed character who was to hobble down the aisle toward the stage as a song was to begin and the main character dramatically pointed to focus the attention of the audience on the teen patiently waiting in the back of the auditorium. You’ll never believe what happened instead! The teenager who was manning the spotlight must have gotten a little confused and instead of spotlighting the correct character, he placed the spotlight directly on me as I was creeping my way down the aisle in my pitifully unsuccessful attempt at being unseen! (Let’s add to the mix that I had chosen to wear a bright red jacket that night!)

I have never wanted to crawl under a carpet so badly in my entire life! You could hear snickering all over the sanctuary as I frantically searched for an empty seat--which I could not see because of the blinding light shining in my eyes! Why wouldn’t that kid turn the light toward the girl he was supposed to spotlight? I finally fell into a pew and slid next to my friend’s husband, who was in absolute hysterics by now. We sat there and giggled like school kids for the rest of the drama. I had crashed a church drama and had never been so embarrassed in my life!

My really bad timing spotlighted the fact that I was not the person taking the role in the drama. Another person had the role in the drama and I did not. I didn’t really know what to do or say, and all I wanted to do was to get out of there! Except for the humorous aspect of it, it’s a lot like what happens when you must come face to face with another woman’s pregnancy.

Seeing a pregnant woman is probably one of the hardest things that an infertile woman has to face day by day. You know the type. We bump into her every day. She’s cute, glowing, rubbing her perfectly round belly, giggling as she tells her perfectly coifed best friend that the baby has the hiccups again. In those moments, we fight difficult emotions--anger, jealousy, sadness--followed by such guilt. It’s not that you resent blessings given to someone else. It’s not that you are a selfish, uncaring person who despises when something good happens to someone else. You’re just afraid the miracles will run out before you are blessed. It seems like you should be able to turn your head and see a glaring spotlight shining down on you! One that spotlights just how pregnant she is and how baby-less you are. It’s almost as if you can hear someone standing at the center of the room saying “I can understand why God would give a baby to this woman, or to that woman, or even to me. But I don’t understand why anyone thinks He’d ever give a baby to someone like her!” And the glaring spotlight shines on the baby-shaped void housed in your heart.

Friend, do you realize that God is unlimited in His abilities and His abundance? If He chooses to bless another with a baby, it doesn’t mean that He will run out of miracles before your name is called. Scripture reminds you that the greatness of God is unfathomable. The greatest nations on earth are nothing more than a drop in the bucket to Him, the oceans measured in the palms of His hands. This great God is working to bring together the story of your life, and has masterfully designed the role you will play. Your life is not a mistake. Your infertility is not a mistake! He’s working through it. His ability to bless you is not diminished by the blessings He bestows on others. He’s passionate about you and the role you play in His grand design.

-Beth Forbus

 

[xxx_faithful]

THANKYOU !!! blue33, ProfWife, Jett55 for allowing me to pray for you. I've sent you all private msg's to confirm with me the prayer and confess too.

I pray Jesus that these woman will move beyond their fears. Move beyond their fears of not being able to carry a child, move beyond their fear that perhaps children aren't in your plans for them, and move beyond their fears of not being good enough.

These fear do not belong to them. They are children of God, and you did not design them to live by fear. I break and release any negative strongholds in your name. I also pray you bring about them a sense of peace and comfort, and will actively show them guidance through this time. In Jesus Name, always, Amen

xxx

 

[xxx_faithful]

xxxfaithful, thank you so much and congratulations on you're little one I am so happy for you!!!

It has been a very long road, but I do believe I will try as long as it takes. Hopefully we will find out that we are able to do the low cost ivf at our first fs appointment, and it will work for us. I just keep praying! October 10th can't come soon enough! !

Oh thank you i am so happy for me too lol. Dont listen to all those moppy mums out there, it really is the best and most cherished gift you will ever have. Motherhood to me is easy, yep easy. Because ive been on the other side crying for a baby to be born and know what that yearning feels like. I ask God everyday, to let my pain be forgotten but let my testimony outlive my life.

Low cost ivf? What do the Dr's think seem to be the matter with your fertility ? (just so i know what im praying for) xxx

Low cost ivf is just ivf without the cost if most of the medications. I will still need to take something like clomid to help with follicle stimulation. I haven't had any blood work ups done yet, but I'm assuming that they'll do them at our first fs appointment. Our fertility issue is that I only have one tube and it's blocked. My dh is scheduled for a sa, but my ob/gyn didn't seem to worried that he was part of our issue since we have had 4 bfp's, they just always ended in mc or ectopics. Hopefully if my bloodwork comes back good we will be candidates for the low cost route. Thank you for your prayers!!!

Wowwowow... i just want to give you a huge hug!!!!!!!!!!

With your failed pregnancies did you have much support during it? Did you confide in your friends or family?

Have you tried the solution that specialists put through your tubes to clear blockages? Praying if low cost ivf is the route for you both that it will go smoothly and everything will be in your favour !!!!! Pray and confess it too, even hubby! (it's important that husbands get in on this faith stuff too, and not just the wife's praying on their couples behalves)

XXXXXXXXXX

 

[blue33]

xxxfaithful, thank you so much and congratulations on you're little one I am so happy for you!!!

It has been a very long road, but I do believe I will try as long as it takes. Hopefully we will find out that we are able to do the low cost ivf at our first fs appointment, and it will work for us. I just keep praying! October 10th can't come soon enough! !

Oh thank you i am so happy for me too lol. Dont listen to all those moppy mums out there, it really is the best and most cherished gift you will ever have. Motherhood to me is easy, yep easy. Because ive been on the other side crying for a baby to be born and know what that yearning feels like. I ask God everyday, to let my pain be forgotten but let my testimony outlive my life.

Low cost ivf? What do the Dr's think seem to be the matter with your fertility ? (just so i know what im praying for) xxx

Low cost ivf is just ivf without the cost if most of the medications. I will still need to take something like clomid to help with follicle stimulation. I haven't had any blood work ups done yet, but I'm assuming that they'll do them at our first fs appointment. Our fertility issue is that I only have one tube and it's blocked. My dh is scheduled for a sa, but my ob/gyn didn't seem to worried that he was part of our issue since we have had 4 bfp's, they just always ended in mc or ectopics. Hopefully if my bloodwork comes back good we will be candidates for the low cost route. Thank you for your prayers!!!

Wowwowow... i just want to give you a huge hug!!!!!!!!!!

With your failed pregnancies did you have much support during it? Did you confide in your friends or family?

Have you tried the solution that specialists put through your tubes to clear blockages? Praying if low cost ivf is the route for you both that it will go smoothly and everything will be in your favour !!!!! Pray and confess it too, even hubby! (it's important that husbands get in on this faith stuff too, and not just the wife's praying on their couples behalves)

XXXXXXXXXX

I did have some support. My mom and dh were at the hospital with me each time. And our whole family knew very quickly, we are a very praying family so calls went out fast. My mom and grandma would listen to me sob and try to comfort me, but I don't think they really knew what to say, I heard 'it just wasn't meant to be' and 'if it's meant to be it will happen eventually '. Those are both nice but it wasn't what I wanted to hear at the time of course.
The last loss I really had a hard time with, I was given a methotrexate shot that was supposed to stop the baby's growth, and I really didn't agree with it in the first place but allowed myself to be talked into it. As soon as the medication starting working on my system I regretted getting it, it made me deathly ill. All I could think about was, if I was feeling that horrible, how was it making that precious baby inside of me feel? That about tore me apart. Then, the shot didn't even work and the baby continued to grow so my tube bursted and I felt even worse for the baby because he or she fought the medicine to make it, and there was no way for the baby to ever make it.

I have heard about the surgery to clear my tube, but it just sounds so risky. I have read that ectopic pregnancies are quite common afterwards, and that even if the tube gets cleaned out that the scillia (spelling is wrong I think) sometimes are damaged and the egg will never make it to the uterus. Ivf sounded like it may give us a better chance and be a faster way. My obgyn also said she thought ivf was a better route for us, she didn't like the idea of cleaning out my tube because of ectopic risks. I figured our fs would probably have the same opinion when we see him.

 

[xxx_faithful]

Doing business in deep waters - Joel Osteen

If your going to do anything in life, there will be opposition, setbacks, delays and critiques.
Many people think, 'Why is this happening to me?' Don't get discouraged, it is because you are taking on new ground, it is be use you are making progress.
You realise when you have big dreams you will have big challenges.
If you were an average person, you would have average problems. The key is you aren't average.

God has planted a seed in you to leave your mark on this generation, you cannot expect ordinary problems. You are a history maker, you are a world changer.

Problems come with he territory. It's because you are a major person with a major destiny. The enemy would leave you alone if you weren't a threat. He wouldn't bother you if you didn't have something amazing in your future. You are an extraordinary person you will face extraordinary challenges.
The good news is we serve an extraordinary God, be can get you to where your supposed to be.

When your in the deep waters your not trying to get everyone to like you, win over all of your critiques or prove to your family that you really are okay. Everyone is not going to like you. Everyone is not going to understand you, friends may not celebrate your success. Shake it off and run your race. You cannot please every person and God at the same time. You'll either have people upset with you, or God upset with you. But pleasing God, will look after your critiques.

If a battle isn't between you and your Gof given destiny it simply a distraction. Your not supposed to engage in every single battle. You only have so much emotional energy each day. If your spending your energy on areas that shouldn't matter, you won't have enough energy for your dreams. Don't fight battles that don't matter. Be selective how you spend your time.
Don't let people bring you into shallow waters where you are proving who you areas.

You may be up against a big challenge today but to me that says you have a big destiny ahead of you. The size of your problem indicates the size of your future.

The enemy will always try a fight us when we are close to our victory.
This difficulty was not sent to defeat you but to promote you. The more worry tries to get you down don't worry God is in control and the more you will multiply.

 

[Godsjewel]

...and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ,

Romans 8:17

For many of us, difficult treatment or the monthly struggle is nothing compared to the heart-wrenching decision to stop trying to conceive. But your body says enough. Your bank account says enough. Your spouse says enough. Your doctor says enough. Your heart simply says, I cannot take it anymore. The dream of a blissful, joyous pregnancy has come crashing to an end. However, the decision to end the quest for a biological child does not mean that you may never have a child. Adoption is such a wonderful, loving choice and has turned many a quiet room into a beautifully noisy nursery! To take a child from a life of nothingness and fill it with love, compassion and family is a wonderful, noble thing!

Adoption is not failure. If you come to the point that it is physically impossible to conceive, financially irresponsible, or just simply too hard emotionally to continue to hope and have those hopes dashed every month, you have choices to make. Once the door has closed on having a biological child you now face the challenge of choosing adoption or choosing to live your life childless. Neither is a failure and both can be blessed, happy lives. Sometimes we have to decide if we want to be pregnant or if we want to be parents. If pregnancy itself is not a driving force, adoption can be a real lifesaver for you and for a precious child who has for whatever reason been denied its own biological family.

What does the Bible say about adoption? It says many wonderful things! First of all, as Christians we are all adopted! Romans says that we are adopted as sons and cry Abba Father! Abba literally translated is “Daddy”. This causes us to realize a deep intimate relationship between Father and child. Not an absent or uncaring parent who brings us into existence and is finished with us-but Daddy! The loving, laughing, teaching parent that a Daddy is. In fact the Scripture continues and calls us sons. It goes even further and says if we are sons, then heirs and joint heirs with Jesus! As an adopted child of God we are co-equal with Jesus in Gods eyes! He loves us equally with Jesus! We are as worthy as Jesus in God’s eyes! We are just as precious, just as desirous, and He longs for our companionship just as much as He does Jesus!

So what does that say about the adopted child? Unfortunately, there are those who feel that adoption is a choice only to be made when everything else fails and this will just have to do. It comes across as if adoption is second best and the adopted child somehow does not measure up to a child born of your own body. Nothing could be further from the truth! We are held just as dear as Jesus Christ Himself in the heart of our loving Heavenly Father! What a beautiful, undeniable comparison of the biological and the adopted child! God loved His own begotten Son and called us co-heirs with Him! An adopted child is no less precious, no less valuable, and no less a blessing than a biological child. A child need not come from your womb to take residence deep inside your heart. I believe God has a special blessing for the man and woman who open their hearts and their homes to a child not born of their bodies but of their hearts.


Taken from Baby Hunger: Biblical Encouragement for Those Struggling with Infertility by Beth Forbus (c) 2003.

 

[xxx_faithful]

We restrict, suffocate, delay, and deny our own blessings not by what happens to others, but how we react to what happens to them.

God cannot fill a heart with blessings if it is already full of feelings like resentment, jealously or bitterness.

You may feel others don't deserve what happens to them, and sometimes you may be right - they may not deserve to have fallen pregnant before you, or onto their second child while your struggling to come to terms that it's taking awhile to conceive your first, or perhaps they don't deserve to have the children that they have when they are so ungrateful for them.

Our time will come when we are more abundantly blessed than someone else, and we will be thankful for God's grace on our lives. They will look upon your life and wonder why your dealing with motherhood better, or seem to have it all together or perhaps God will bless you with an easy pregnancy, an easy baby or an easy family dynamic.

You may feel like you've fought for yours. But your time will come. So make the most of your pain right now.
Let it make you BETTER not bitter.

Move beyond your pain today, be honest with your feelings and give to God your cares today. He can handle them.

By xxx_faithful

 

[Sophie_]

CALLING ALL LADIES TTC THEIR FIRST CHILD !!!

I have been thinking alot about fears, woman's fears in general. As loving as we are by nature to others, we have a hard time coming around to loving ourselves. Even the best of us are haunted by our conscious or sub-conscious fears. Weather we like it (or aware) of it or not.

Are we pretty enough? Are we slim enough? Are we loved enough? Or is your fear, Am i enough?

The fears dont seem to be an outward notion, but an inward thing. It starts off with fear, then with anxiety of the fear. We then go to the Dr's and are told confirmation of what we feared and so on.

We can be walking alongside God and still fear, we must speak authority OVER the fear. We must CAST OUT the fear. Not simply see it and be fearful of the fear.

Today i ask, what are you fearing about your fertility? Are you casting out your fears? Or are you speaking them into reality? I am a firm believer of modern medicine, and just as a fan of the spiritual whelm too. God has given us a powerful weapon, our tongue to confess what is. And what is, is God and God's word. God wants us to become mothers, to become parents. Will you let your words today destroy your fear or water it?

I ask ladies, if you are ttc your first child could you please refresh me on who you are and what you are fearing. I would like to PM and pray for you. Thanks xxx

I'm so happy I came across this thread! My dh and I are Christians and truly believe the Lord will bless us with a child. I have been off bcp's since june 2012 and thought we would just get pregnant when the Lord was ready. Well a year later we really started trying, and charting ovulation and doing OPKs. I try not to get my hopes up by saying "I don't know if this is the month" but my dh alwaysss tells me not to say that! I never really looked at it as doubting the Lord until I was reading my bible Friday night and came across the story of Jesus walking on water to calm his friends fears of the storm at sea. When one of the men asked Jesus to call out to him so he could walk on the water, he soon started to fall because he had doubted Jesus. That really reminded me that Jesus will answer our prayers and send us a child because that's our hearts desire, we just need to keep our faith in Him!!

 

[Godsjewel]

I'm so happy I came across this thread! My dh and I are Christians and truly believe the Lord will bless us with a child. I have been off bcp's since june 2012 and thought we would just get pregnant when the Lord was ready. Well a year later we really started trying, and charting ovulation and doing OPKs. I try not to get my hopes up by saying "I don't know if this is the month" but my dh alwaysss tells me not to say that! I never really looked at it as doubting the Lord until I was reading my bible Friday night and came across the story of Jesus walking on water to calm his friends fears of the storm at sea. When one of the men asked Jesus to call out to him so he could walk on the water, he soon started to fall because he had doubted Jesus. That really reminded me that Jesus will answer our prayers and send us a child because that's our hearts desire, we just need to keep our faith in Him!!

Welcome Sophie

My name is Sarah and I'm so glad you've joined us.

God wants us to have unwavering faith that in His perfect timing all that we dreamed, imagined and had desires for will come to pass. I pray you find encouragement, peace and comfort while on this journey.

 

[Sophie_]

Thank you!

 

[No Doubt]

Hi Sophie and welcome! I'm sure that you will find encouragement as well as support from the wonderful ladies on this thread. I noticed in your post that you said "...and thought we would just get pregnant when the Lord was ready." I think it's beautiful that you started out thinking that way and want it to be in the Lord's time. I think on this journey we always say we want everything to be in the Lord's time, but when His time takes too long for us, we tend to lose patience and possibly begin to lose faith. I also think we unknowingly start to replace the Lord's time with our time and that where discouragement sets in. I just want to encourage you to never forget that everything is in the Lord's time, and in that it's perfect timing. So don't think because it hasn't happened yet, that you and your hubs have somehow "missed" the Lord's timing...His timing for your child just hasn't happened yet, and that doesn't mean that it won't come to fruition or that it wasn't meant to happen. So stay strong and hold onto your faith and remember what you said...that it will happen in the Lord's timing.

 

[Sophie_]

Hi Sophie and welcome! I'm sure that you will find encouragement as well as support from the wonderful ladies on this thread. I noticed in your post that you said "...and thought we would just get pregnant when the Lord was ready." I think it's beautiful that you started out thinking that way and want it to be in the Lord's time. I think on this journey we always say we want everything to be in the Lord's time, but when His time takes too long for us, we tend to lose patience and possibly begin to lose faith. I also think we unknowingly start to replace the Lord's time with our time and that where discouragement sets in. I just want to encourage you to never forget that everything is in the Lord's time, and in that it's perfect timing. So don't think because it hasn't happened yet, that you and your hubs have somehow "missed" the Lord's timing...His timing for your child just hasn't happened yet, and that doesn't mean that it won't come to fruition or that it wasn't meant to happen. So stay strong and hold onto your faith and remember what you said...that it will happen in the Lord's timing.

Thank you! I agree still feeling exctied and hopeful. I have a 5 year old stepson..I really want my child and him to be close! Hopefully the age gap wont matter!

 

[xxx_faithful]

CALLING ALL LADIES TTC THEIR FIRST CHILD !!!

I have been thinking alot about fears, woman's fears in general. As loving as we are by nature to others, we have a hard time coming around to loving ourselves. Even the best of us are haunted by our conscious or sub-conscious fears. Weather we like it (or aware) of it or not.

Are we pretty enough? Are we slim enough? Are we loved enough? Or is your fear, Am i enough?

The fears dont seem to be an outward notion, but an inward thing. It starts off with fear, then with anxiety of the fear. We then go to the Dr's and are told confirmation of what we feared and so on.

We can be walking alongside God and still fear, we must speak authority OVER the fear. We must CAST OUT the fear. Not simply see it and be fearful of the fear.

Today i ask, what are you fearing about your fertility? Are you casting out your fears? Or are you speaking them into reality? I am a firm believer of modern medicine, and just as a fan of the spiritual whelm too. God has given us a powerful weapon, our tongue to confess what is. And what is, is God and God's word. God wants us to become mothers, to become parents. Will you let your words today destroy your fear or water it?

I ask ladies, if you are ttc your first child could you please refresh me on who you are and what you are fearing. I would like to PM and pray for you. Thanks xxx

I'm so happy I came across this thread! My dh and I are Christians and truly believe the Lord will bless us with a child. I have been off bcp's since june 2012 and thought we would just get pregnant when the Lord was ready. Well a year later we really started trying, and charting ovulation and doing OPKs. I try not to get my hopes up by saying "I don't know if this is the month" but my dh alwaysss tells me not to say that! I never really looked at it as doubting the Lord until I was reading my bible Friday night and came across the story of Jesus walking on water to calm his friends fears of the storm at sea. When one of the men asked Jesus to call out to him so he could walk on the water, he soon started to fall because he had doubted Jesus. That really reminded me that Jesus will answer our prayers and send us a child because that's our hearts desire, we just need to keep our faith in Him!!

Hi Sophie

Lovely to find you on here. I have a quote i want to share with you...

"Christianity isn't a tool to escape suffering, it's a lens by which we understand it."

You keep praying for that beautiful baby of yours to come into the world, and sure enough you will speak he/she into life. God has given us an incredible power that comes from the tongue. He gave us life, and gave us the ability to breath things into life through our words. Through the tongue, his given us AUTHORITY. As children of his, we must learn what we have authority over, and what is of God(and what isn't!)

God did not give us infertility, he did not give us miscarriages, he did not give us pain, but he did give us REST. It is not in his nature to give us suffering - but RESTORATION. We need to cling onto his word and not gain a misunderstanding that 'It is his purpose'. What we should pray for is that we raise awareness and build on our testimony, and allow God to use not some of the pain, but every bit of it.

P.S- You are BEAUTIFUL by the way !!

 

[armywife42886]

I have a question.. So my husband and I are ttc. Today would be day 4 of my period but it has not come so far. I have not had any symptoms of my AF. Today I am having very light cramping and some spotting, at first it was light brown and now light red. Freaking out, we were really hoping this would finally be it :/ has anyone experienced this?