WHERE THERE’S A WILL, THERE’S A WAY

You should remember the Tucson, Arizona shooting earlier this year, where Representative Gabrielle Giffords was one of the victims. She received a gunshot wound to the head and has been recovering since.

It turns out that Mrs. Giffords, at age 42, had been undergoing fertility treatment at the time so that she and her husband could have children. No doubt this tragedy has put a hold on her plans in that regard.

I mentioned this story just to encourage other women who find themselves in their 40’s and would like to still have children. You see, where there is a will there is a way. It might not be easy because women in their 40’s are less fertile, and so you have to commit to doing all that is necessary to realise this dream; Get your body ready by way of proper diet and exercise, seek the help of a fertility specialist or a herbalist, as more and more women are going this route and are having great success, and most of all adopt a positive attitude.

I am 42 and is expecting my third child and I did tell myself that if I reached the age of 43 and did not realise this dream, then I would have to seek other alternatives, turns out this child is actually coming on my 43^rd birthday.  My point is, having given myself this age deadline, I had to commit to doing all that I needed to do, in earnest, while relying on my faith in an all-knowing God, to take it the rest of the way. There were anxieties of course, but they did not deter me much, as I knew I was in good hands.

ALL THE BEST IN YOUR EFFORTS

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INFERTILITY IS BY NO MEANS PARTIAL

Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him.

Children born to a young man are like sharp arrows in a warrior’s hand

Psalm 127: 3 & 4

"HOPE MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE"

Infertility is by no means partial, it transcends all borders. It touches far and wide, it touches the poor, it touches the rich, it touches the small and it touches the great.

I just learnt recently that former first Lady, Laura Bush had fertility issues. In an interview on the Today Show on NBC recently, former first Lady Laura Bush said that she wanted children so badly, before giving birth to twin girls. I must admit when I found out that she and former President of the United States, George W. Bush had twins, I immediately thought, ‘I wonder if they had problems conceiving and these girls are the result of fertility treatment. Not that one has to be on fertility treatment to give birth to twins, but it is highly common in this regard. It has not been confirmed though, that these girls are actually the product of fertility treatment.

When her recently married daughter, Jenna, who was also present at the same interview on the today show asked her, where she sees herself in ten years, she quickly responded, ‘surrounded by grandchildren, I would hope,’ and was looking at her daughter, as she says this, with a bright smile on her face.

As I sat there and listened, my heart revisited the sadness I experienced all those years of struggling with infertility, when I wanted so much to give my mother-in-law grandchildren (my mother had), because parents, especially mothers, look forward so much, after the wedding of their children, to the day when they would welcome their grandchildren into the world. This was definitely a difficult part of my struggle, because I knew that my mother-in-law was yearning just as my husband and I were.

Mrs. Laura Bush just published her autobiography entitled, ‘Spoken from the Heart.’





 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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