- When trying to conceive, instead of infertility drugs and insemination, try eating more butter and eggs! – I also share in this post about my own struggles with infertility & miscarriage.
- In this post about healthy milk options, be sure to see the article mentioned under #2 about how intake of high-fat dairy products is linked with lower risk for infertility.
- Another story of Real Food helping a couple to conceive!
Here's a post with an excerpt about infertility and PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) from Nina Planck in her book: “Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby's First Foods“.
- Fertility Bootcamp? Infertility Counseling – I sure wish this option was available when we went through our infertility issues.
- Read a Real Food Miracle Story!
- Paleo diets and infertility
- Another Real Food Miracle Story with a Surprise Ending!
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Diana says
Thanks, Kelly. What a wonderful idea: I’ll pray for all those women who aren’t mothers yet. I am always thankful for the healthy, beautiful daughter that I have here to love and cherish.
Diana
Diana
Kelly says
Diana,
I’m sad with you, your comment brought back so many memories…
You probably read in my other infertility post that we had secondary infertility like you. When I would start my period again I would try to pray for all the women who weren’t Moms yet at all and were going through this. As sad as it was, and as much as I wanted our son to have a sibling, that helped me a little, to be thankful that at least I was already a Mom. And I’d think, “We’re like the holy family!” Jesus, Mary & Joseph. 🙂
I’ll pray for you…
Kelly
Diana says
What beautiful stories! Your post and the comments added are very timely. I woke up this morning to discover that we will be trying again next month. I’ve been a little down today since it’s now been over a year. But these stories have encouraged me.
We use NPF, so the planner in me just doesn’t get it. But I also know that if God wants us to only raise one child (with two in Heaven), then this is what is best for us.
Blessings!
Diana
Christine says
Ladies, I just happened to finish the most wonderful (and page turning) book on open adoption (one of the countries first) called, The Story of David. The author does a fabulous job detailing his and his wife’s struggle with infertility, and their path to a child through open adoption.
This is a story of 2 people willing to love the birth mom as much as her child….subjecting themselves to the possibility that she would change her mind after birth. They cared for and included their birth mom (who was date raped at age 17) into their family, despite the opposition to ‘cut her off’ (for their own nuclear family’s sake).
This isn’t about co-parenting, but about loving their child’s birth mom unconditionally, without compromising their parenthood along the way. By the end of their story, their baby is 4, and the birth mom is newly married with her own newborn, and the boys have a relationship as brothers. The birth mom’s healing is complete, and she is assured her older child will always know her. It is far more ‘open’ than I’ve ever witnessed, but an amazing testimony of God’s love in an unusual situation.
Congratulations on your beautiful daughter Violet. It must be a struggle to decide where to draw the line when pursuing a child, as so much is offered in fertility treatment. One friend told me, “I refuse to be a guinea pig any longer.” They have 2 grown Korean sons now. God is able to lead children to their parents, one way or another. : )
I’m not an adoptive mom, (but I *am* a proud (open) adoptive Aunt of 2), but it does seem to me, that there is a special blessing associated with the act of adoption, which Christ called ‘true religion.’
Thank you for this information, Kelly – I passed it on to a friend who is dealing with the ovarian cyst issue and fertility. Isn’t it joyous to find out that eating butter and eggs, may actually be the solution (instead of a ‘problem’?) : D
Have a beautiful day!
Kelly says
Violet, I couldn’t agree more. Adoption IS a beautiful way to build a family. I sooooo wish (and pray for) more women with unwanted pregnancies to be willing to make that ultimate sacrifice for their babies, and let another couple adopt who are unable to conceive. It would probably be the most difficult thing they would ever do, but what huge good could come from their selflessness.
I also think of all the kids in foster care needing homes, I pray for parents unable to conceive to consider helping them…
Kent & I drew similar lines when we were struggling with infertility. Or I should say Kent did. He just knew (his faith & upbringing?) that we would only go so far, and something inside me must have felt that, too (even before I knew God), because I never pushed it.
Thanks for sharing your neat story. 🙂
Violet says
I wish, when my husband and I were working through fertility issues, that our specialist would have given us more nutrition guidelines. He was VERY attached to ‘intervention’ therapies: lupron, et al, artificial insemination, donor eggs, the list goes on. I asked specifically about nutrition; the doctor said it made NO Difference! (I now realize our diet wasn’t bad, just not optimal for conception/pregnancy.) We continued using NFP (even though the doctor said it would not help); we said no to artificial insemination or donor eggs (Doctor and staff thought we were nuts and could not understand why we drew such a line – no thought about how God might look at such behavior). All the effort, emotions and pain were part of God’s plan, just not the way we imagined. Many times over the course of that 1 1/2 years, I thought I was pregnant, only to have our hopes dashed.
Before anyone feels too sorry for us, we have a beautiful Russian daughter we adopted after I said I would undergo NO MORE artificial ANYthing to be a mom. Adoption is a beautiful way to build a family, and our daughter is such a blessing not only to us, but to everyone whose life she touches.
Peace and all good
Violet