Getting pregnant after infertility and pregnancy loss is probably the hardest thing I will ever do. At first I had loads of anxiety. Well, after 8 months of trying (because we aren’t doing IVF) my focus is now on actually GETTING pregnant, rather than when I am pregnant. I wanted to share what I’m currently …
PCOS Awareness Month
September is PCOS Awareness Month. While I don’t know a lot about PCOS, because I don’t personally have it. I wanted to share what I do know and hopefully help others understand and be more compassionate to those who are suffering. **Before I get started I did want to mention that I use several affiliate …
My Month of Minimalism
This post is a bit different than many of my other posts on infertility, and exercise. If you’ve ever heard the term “stuff makes you happy,” that is a whole hearted lie. Stuff doesn’t make you happy. To me, if my house is cluttered, my brain and life seem to be cluttered. So read on …
Things that are Challenges are Challenges
Did you know that each and every one of us has different trials or challenges. No two challenges are the same. God has given us the opportunity to have our own unique challenges. Yes infertility is a challenge. Since each of us are all different, even our infertility challenges are different. How we overcome these …
The Bigger Picture in a Season of Waiting
The other day while I was driving with Chase I started thinking about the bigger picture. That this whole earth experience is one long waiting game. From the moment we are born we wait to die. I believe that there was a before we came to earth and there is an after once we die. …
My Favorite Fitness and Fertility Quotes
I’ve compiled all of my favorite fitness and fertility quotes from Instagram. There are lots more I haven’t posted, and may post them in the future. Favorite Fitness Quotes: When running or training for a race, it’s always about us being better than what we used to be. It’s improving our times, it’s being stronger, …
A Fertility Fundraiser
After Chase and I met with our RE about our next steps we discussed having a fertility fundraiser to help us pay for our IVF cycle. Which we ended up not needing the money from. It went to The Hope for Fertility Foundation, the nonprofit we created to help couples struggling to pay for fertility …
Finding Faith in this Microblog Monday
The past few weeks I have been pondering finding faith for an upcoming lesson that I’m giving in my church. The title of my lesson is; Having Faith in Christ During Trials. After a few years of struggling with getting pregnant I struggled with faith, and I felt like it had completely gone. Same with …