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by Gretchen Louise · 8 Comments

friends and infertility

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I suck it in as I glare at the mirror and do my best to dress to hide my extra baby weight. Even as I remember that some of my friends would do almost anything to have those stretch marks and that baby weight.

They hope against hope each month that they will need to test. But sometimes I almost hope I won’t.

I’ve had the news to share three times now, and I never know quite how to say it to some of my friends. How do you tell someone that you are once again getting what they want so badly and have never had?

friends and infertilityIt’s hard to complain about being up in the night with a fussy baby to a friend who wishes she had a baby to be up in the night with. And the endless laundry and dishes and toys all over the floor look like a tremendous blessing when seen through their eyes.

And now, with a friend facing her first Mother’s Day with empty arms rather than the newborn babe she was to be holding, I weep anew with those who weep.

I can’t begin to imagine the grief so many of my friends face on a daily basis. Yet their stories lend perspective to my own.

I don’t understand why I have little ones to hold while they are left with empty arms. But I know God is sovereign.

So I beg Him to bless their wombs and fill their arms and hearts. Because I long not only to rejoice with those who rejoice; I want to witness miracles in the lives of my friends like those in the stories of Sarah and of Hannah.

{A post based on the Five-Minute Friday prompt “Friend”, in honor of Infertility Awareness Week, and my friends who walk that path…}

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Posted in Blog, Faith, Motherhood on April 27, 2013 (Last Updated December 5, 2016) Tagged With: Five Minute Friday

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  1. Julie Anne says

    May 1, 2013 at 5:56 pm

    These words are just beautiful!! I had 4 kids in 4 1/2 years and knew of so many who would give anything for one. I prayed Psalm 113:9 for them and kept a list… many of which have been answered, some through pregnancy, some through adoption.

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  2. ErinL says

    April 30, 2013 at 2:18 pm

    Yes…a thousand times yes. You put it so eloquently.

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  3. Jess says

    April 30, 2013 at 2:17 pm

    Beautiful post Gretchen.

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  4. denise says

    April 29, 2013 at 3:32 pm

    Such a heart touching post, bless you.

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  5. Natasha Metzler says

    April 29, 2013 at 1:22 pm

    beautiful, friend.

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    • Gretchen Louise says

      April 29, 2013 at 1:30 pm

      You are beautiful, friend. And so is your story.

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  6. Wendy Meijer says

    April 29, 2013 at 1:06 pm

    You have written this so beautifully. Your friends are blessed to have a friend who is sensitive to what they are facing and who prays and longs to rejoice with them.

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  1. a bouquet for moms {and for those who aren't} - Kindred Grace says:
    May 10, 2013 at 1:01 am

    […] I’m also intimately acquainted with my friends’ stories of crushing test results, missing heartbeats, and the devastating ache of empty arms. And you, my […]

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