Infertility sucks.  That is about the only “nice” way to describe infertility.  Dave & I dealt with it for two years exactly and the pain of not knowing if we were going to be one of the blessed who are granted children was really hard.  A friend of ours wrote a blog entry a few days back about her plight with infertility (see Maria’s Blog).  She asks some hard questions and I’m not particularly sure there is an answer to any of them.

Folks she meets probably tell her to keep praying, keep trying, give her advice that worked for themselves, tell her that adoption is an option, maybe God has other plans for her life, “it will happen” or she should just relax.  Let me just say this, those responses really are stinkers.   I’m not even sure there is a good response for someone speaking of infertility difficulties.  Listening is maybe the only good response.

Having children just seems like such an easy thing for so many people.  And let me tell you, when you are dealing with infertility a person can get pretty judgmental about the gals that seem to get pregnant just looking at a fellow.  Speaking as one who has been there, other women’s undesired pregnancies are really tough on the infertile.  My personal favorite was to overhear a conversation where a pregnant gal is complaining about being pregnant again and how annoying her other children are.   I know people who would give their left arm just to have the privileged to be parent to one of those lady’s “rotten” kiddos.

This blog entry doesn’t really have an end purpose, I just read Maria’s blog entry, felt her pain and can tell her that we will continue to pray for she and Ed and listen when she needs to vent, because infertility sucks!