Sunday, June 7, 2015

It Takes A Village

It takes a village to raise conceive a child.

We are gearing up to do another frozen embryo transfer at some point this summer and in our days of preparing I have realized there are A LOT, A LOT of people involved! It's kind of comical because the act of conceiving a child should be private, romantic, and between just a husband and wife. But unfortunately, that ship sailed for us a long time ago. For us, it truly takes a village of people to help make the possibility of conceiving a child even work.

Here is our village:
Insurance Company (sadly they don't cover much, or anything, but still find myself on the phone with them quite a bit)
Fertility Pharmacy
Coordinating nurses from RE's office (spend lots of time on the phone with these sweet ladies)
My regular OBGYN in Dallas
Acupuncturist
Sonographer
Blood work laboratory
Our RE in Houston
And I think most importantly our support system:
The family that graciously watches our little guy while my husband and I travel to Houston or while I go to appointments. It is impossible to take a 2 year old to an acupuncture appointment, trust me I've tried...more than once.
The family and close friends that pray us through this process. They encourage us, care about us, and fervently pray for us. There is one thing I know, it is impossible for us to make it through these fertility treatments without relying on God through prayer!

This village is important to us. It's our means to growing our family. It may not be romantic or ideal but it's our reality and we are thankful for each one of them. The Lord has blessed us with amazingly wonderful doctors and nurses who are always caring and encouraging. And family that will do anything to help us. We do not take any of them for granted. I even wanted to give the FedEx man a big hug and kiss when he delivered my package of medication. I really did think about taking a selfie with him and our box off goods because he too plays an important role. But I thought that may cross the line of awkward, so I refrained. :-)

Even if you aren't facing infertility, we all have things in our life that others help us to accomplish, things we can't do on our own. Who is in your village?