No One Prepared Me For Infertility | My Journey After A Miscarriage – Sarah

I can still remember the picture on our save the date cards we mailed out for our 2016 wedding. I can still feel how happy I was. “Finally” I thought. “I am about to start my life with the love of my life.”

Before our wedding, we wanted to have our careers in line and make sure we were financially stable before getting married and starting a family. I graduated dental hygiene school just two short months before our wedding (which I would NOT recommend by the way). My husband, Kevin, was in his second year as an elementary school teacher and we had recently purchased a house together.

What we didn’t plan for was infertility. Or the emotional and physical pain that comes along with it.

Growing up, I didn’t even realize that people struggled to get pregnant or to have children of their own. I am the fourth oldest of ten children. My parents were having babies left and right and only 17 years separate my oldest brother from my youngest sister. My mother had ten healthy pregnancies, naturally, with no miscarriages. And honestly, that’s how I pictured my life would go (minus about 7 children or so).

But little did I know, that even years after our wedding, we would still be struggling to get pregnant. That we would still get asked, “When are you going to have kids?” And that we would still have to hold back tears every month, realizing it still isn’t our turn.

Watch this in-depth interview as Sarah shares her struggle with infertility in the past four years after a miscarriage and multiple IVF’s and IUIs narrating the details of how she discovered, her journey so far and the next stage.

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