Testimonies - Page 5 of 40 - Moms in the Making

My husband and I were married in 2019 and knew in due time we wanted to start a family. In 2020, I went to my OB to get routine labs done. Later that day, I received a call that I had a very low AMH (Diminished Ovarian Reserve), which was .2. I was only 35 years old at the time. My OB said I had to seek a fertility specialist right away as this was a huge factor for infertility.

I booked our first consult with an R.E. who then told me my chances of having my own biological baby was 5% with medical intervention and that IVF was our only chance and that might not even work.

We couldn’t afford IVF at the time, so we decided to try IUI. 5 rounds of failed IUI’s with no baby. Years of negative pregnancy tests, but we kept praying and standing on God’s word.

In 2023 with the help of a GoFundMe, we decided to give IVF a try. I emailed Caroline Harries, asking her to pray for us, and she did. I would get on my hands and knees every morning, placing God’s hands on my womb and speaking Psalm 113:9 out loud, “He gives the childless woman a family, making her a happy Mother, Praise the Lord!”

IVF started in March 2023, and my body only produced one egg. I was so sad. Some friends had 8, some 12 or even 20 eggs retrieved, and we had one. Our doctor said, “we are going in and retrieving that one egg.” We knew the odds and chances were against us. I kept rehearsing the Bible verse in Ephesians 4:4-5, “There is One body and One Spirit, just as you have been called to One glorious hope for the future. There is One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism and One God and Father.”

We all kept praying and declaring, “all it takes is one.”

God answered the deepest desire of our hearts. We are now 31 weeks pregnant with our one embryo. Our healthy miracle baby girl, Cali, will be born on May 1st, 2024.

In February 2024, I joined a Moms Made group and am now surrounded by wonderful Christian women who pray for each other and support one another. God is our miracle worker and He is yours, too. Trust Him for He will never fail you!
After 5 years of infertility, we were financially, emotionally and physically worn out. We did not know how or even if God would grow our family. But we continued to pray, and God led us down the path of embryo adoption.

We got matched but had to travel to a different country for our embryo transfer, and the borders were only open for one weekend, which was the perfect timing for the transfer!! We made it to the clinic, did our transfer, and returned home before COVID restrictions closed the borders yet again. And praise God, that transfer worked!

After 5 years and 3 miscarriages, we were finally pregnant with our adopted embryo! The pregnancy was extremely difficult. I experienced HG, which had me vomiting 30+ times a day and in and out of the hospital because of dehydration. But again, a miracle of God, I constantly felt overwhelming joy despite how sick I was. I adored being pregnant! When you throw up that much, feeling anything other than despair is truly a miracle.

Then, at 15 weeks, I experienced heavy bleeding. When I went for an ultrasound, the doctor told me I had a partial placental abruption and that the pocket of blood inside my uterus was 3 times the size of the baby and sac. I was told there was nothing to be done and that I was losing my baby. I was given IVs to manage my blood loss and told they would do another ultrasound in a week to plan the delivery of my baby.

For a week, my husband and I wept and prayed. We thanked God for the time we had with our precious adopted embryo baby. We again encountered our God of Miracles when we went in for that ultrasound. Our baby had a heartbeat still!! The doctors were stunned. I was on bed rest for the rest of my pregnancy, and my sweet miracle, a little girl, arrived safely by emergency C-section after a very eventful labor! She’s perfect, healthy, and thriving! God was with us every step, even when things felt scary and uncertain. And God is always with you, too!
I always wanted to be a mom, but 2 days after our wedding on December 12, 2016, I got the PCOS diagnosis that changed it all. Being discouraged was an understatement. The doctors said it wasn’t impossible for us to get pregnant, but would be hard.

We switched doctors, and then in March 2020, we had a miscarriage after conceiving naturally. I didn’t even know I was pregnant until I had two periods back to back and had this feeling to take a test I had in our bathroom. Sure enough, it was bright and positive. I was shaking all the way to my doctor, where I got blood work done that confirmed I was, in fact, losing our baby.

2 days later, the world basically shut down because of Covid, so I got into a deep funk that I didn’t know if I’d ever get out of. But I did, and we decided to see a specialist. They weren’t sure if one of my tubes was blocked or not unless they did surgery (which we decided wasn’t the route we wanted to take), and so that was another hurdle.

God never ceased to amaze us. After 3 years, around the same time we miscarried, we got asked to take in my husband’s week-old nephew. We went through all the steps that needed to be taken, and a month after meeting him, we got to bring him home. Now we’re in the process of adopting him, and even though we still haven’t had any children biologically yet, I still believe that God is a miracle-working and on-time God, and it WILL happen!
My God Can…

The picture you see with this testimony is a beautiful story that only God could author that would bring a group of ladies from different places all over the country to Texas and unite them for the 2023 Moms in the Making Shout for Joy Conference.

There were so many obstacles that were thrown our way by the enemy; however, he didn’t plan for a very specific situation to occur that would declare God’s victory. Financial provision, of course, was the greatest need for this moment to occur. I decided to sell a couch set, and the proceeds would be used to put towards travel expenses. A few weeks before the yard sale at which this prayer was answered, I was prayed over during a special prayer night for those who financially sow into the MITM ministry. During this prayer, the word “victor” was spoken over me. God had big plans for that word in the coming weeks.

On the morning of the yard sale, God and I had a talk, and I asked for three things: to sell the couch, to have guaranteed funds from the sale, and for that person to have a trailer to haul those couches away. God spoke a time of 2 pm, and I declared this out. Not only did God answer each one of those requests, but He also went one step further.

When I introduced myself to the gentleman who would buy the couches, he said, “Hey! My name is Victor.” God continued to work over and over and over again with blessings…childcare provision, hotel accommodations, rental car provision, travel provision, etc. When the conference arrived, each one of us left not only with breakthroughs but also with deeper Kingdom friendships. Only our God can orchestrate something so beautifully.

“Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalm 37:4
Our journey to parenthood began in January 2021. I had full confidence that I would be pregnant within 6 months, just like all my other friends. As months passed without a positive test, I began to worry that something was wrong. I kept my worries close to my heart while frustration, jealousy and sadness began to build month after month.

After finally sharing our struggle with a best friend, God opened the door to Moms in the Making when she gifted me Caroline’s book, In Due Time. Several months later, I was seated in a living room sharing our story with women who understood every feeling I had experienced over the past year of trying to grow our family. In October 2022, I attended my first Moms in the Making Conference and left that weekend believing God would exceed all expectations for our family.

Over time, my MITM community supported us through 5 unsuccessful IUI’s, a chemical pregnancy and embryo loss. My heart was healed and my faith was restored as I began to walk with God fully, focusing on fervent prayer, reading scripture and following guidance from the Holy Spirit.

God placed Psalms 27: 13-14 on my heart, and in September 2023, we received a positive pregnancy test! As our only viable embryo, we witnessed God’s miracle of life happening right before our eyes. And as we now prepare for the birth of our son, we continue to praise God daily for His answered prayer!

“I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living! Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; yes, wait for the Lord!” Psalms 27: 13-14
Seven years ago, my husband walked away from God. It was a gradual slope for a couple of years until, one day, he decided he was done. There was so much anger, sadness, and church hurt. The final nail in the coffin was our fertility diagnosis.

For 7 years, I prayed. I pleaded. I cried. I tried to force things. Finally, God told me one day that my husband was His, and I needed to let him go and take care of myself. I was going to church alone (those were always fun conversations when you met new people). I was doing Bible studies alone. It was incredibly hard. All I could do was love him. I couldn’t fix him, and God constantly reminded me that it wasn’t my job. He simply said, “Watch Me”. And let me tell you, it was amazing to see.

God kept placing His servants, who were faithful ministers to him, in my husband’s path. Slowly, they began to reach his heart, and I saw his heart change.

And this month, on our 12th wedding anniversary, he was baptized at our church home. God said, “Watch Me,” I am in awe of what He’s done and will continue to do.

Don’t give up if you’re praying for your husband to know God or return to God. Keep pursuing. Keep loving. God has him and will bring him home.
My husband and I have been married for 7 years. We started trying for a baby in 2019. By 2021, we started looking into why we weren’t getting pregnant. Due to some health issues, Brian was on testosterone injections. Little did we know that those injections were killing his sperm. He got off of those and was put on a medication to help increase sperm. After several months, his numbers increased, but we still weren’t getting pregnant. I was very discouraged and lost hope. I kept crying to God, asking, “Why not us”?

In December of 2021, I found Moms in the Making. I immediately joined a group. It was refreshing to see women going through the same feelings and emotions as me. By December 2022, my doctor said I had PCOS and put me on medication for that. By January 2023, we were proceeding with our first round of IUI. The first IUI did not take, and I was heartbroken. I remember weeping at church the day of my negative pregnancy test and yet again asking God, “Why”?

Our second IUI was in March, and I was trying not to get my hopes up. When the two weeks were up, I got yet another negative pregnancy test. I took three more tests over the next five days, and they were all negative. I was getting impatient for my cycle to start so that we could begin our third IUI. After a week and a half, I decided to get more pregnancy tests. I just knew I wasn’t pregnant, but I wanted confirmation and to figure out why my cycle had not started yet. Well, the fifth test came back positive. I took three more tests, and they all came back positive. We were pregnant. In November of 2023, I gave birth to our precious baby boy.

Through this process, God used Moms in the Making to heal my heart. In both conferences I’ve attended, God has met with me and tenderly reminded me how much He loves me. He spoke to me and healed my heart of past wounds and mistakes. I have come to know Him closer than before because of the encouragement I received at the conferences and in the group I attend. God healed my heart, and I’m forever blessed by Moms in the Making.
My husband and I started trying to grow our family in October of 2019, expecting to become pregnant quickly, just like all other women in my family. That did not happen. We were about a year in when I was introduced to Moms in the Making in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The group lifted such a weight off of me, finally being around people who understood what I was going through.

Fast forward to February 2022, I was the secretary at my church, and they partake in a women’s conference every year held at a resort in Elkhart Lake, WI. I decided to attend by myself. That entire weekend was so faith-filled. I ended up being roomed with a woman from my church who was an adoptive mother and her friend who was a foster parent for many, many years, eventually adopting a special needs boy after having 4 biological children. At the end of the weekend, in front of 100+ women, I shared my journey and how thankful to God I was for being placed with my roommates, who showed me that being a mother could happen in more than one way. The entire conference prayed with me, and after sharing, I had so many people come up and pray with me individually. I went home feeling refreshed, and my fire for Christ was reinvigorated.

A month later, on March 16, 2022, I had my first-ever positive pregnancy test. My miracle baby, Jane Alexis, is now 15 months old. God continues to show up in our lives. Jane, who was 6 weeks early due to preeclampsia, had a month-long NICU stay, oral aversions that required feeding tubes, tongue tie revisions, intensive speech therapy, and visits to GI because of awful reflux, has gone through so much in her short life but is the happiest little girl.

I nearly gave up hope, but God wasn’t done. I am so thankful that he entrusted me with the best little girl. My Moms in the Making family has been supportive throughout my journey, and now I’m in Moms Made! This ministry is so important, and I am proud to be a part of it.
Having a family has always been a dream of mine from the time I was young, so you can imagine my hurt when the doctor tells us our best chance at a family is through IVF after many failed other procedures. We were given good odds, though, so we had to try.

The true trials began and my body didn’t react how they expected to the meds and we were told we may have to cancel and try again another month, but we didn’t have the funds for that. We went home that weekend, cried a lot and prayed like the children of Israel crossing the Red Sea and God moved and made a way and we were set for retrieval. By the end of the process that was supposed to be in our favor, we were left with one embryo. We were crushed and confused but our prayers all along had been that God would give us just enough embryos for our family. We went to transfer our precious embryo only to have our doctor quit two weeks before our frozen transfer, but again, God provided a new doctor and we were off!

I told my husband to hide all of the pregnancy tests, but he forgot the ones at the stores and I “stumbled” upon them and started taking tests to see if our precious embryo had stuck around and it did! I’d never seen two pink lines before and the joy that I felt was overwhelming. Until, the lines started fading and I knew this precious soul was not meant for this world. Moms in the Making was a huge support for me through all of this.

After some time of healing and prayers, we got into a new clinic that listened to our concerns and was half the cost, with a payment plan and tailored IVF to our needs. We invited our friends on our second IVF journey and kept them posted every step of the way so they could pray for us specifically and what a difference it made! The support and love we received was amazing! God blessed us with all six of our embryos making it to the freeze and our daughter was born from that fresh transfer!

My Moms in the Making group was beside me the whole time, praying for me every step of the way. They cried with me when things didn’t work out and they celebrated with me when God said, “YES”! His hand was truly on every step of our journey.
In January 2021, my husband and I both agreed it was time to start a family after getting married in September of 2020. I had an appointment with my OB and she happily reported back that all results were “normal.” It took me some to realize that that was actually not the case as my cycles were few and far between.

I started with medicated cycles for the next few months, bringing us to March of 2022. Thankfully, by this point, I had found Moms in the Making and joined a virtual group. Having a place to share my experiences with other women going through similar things and being able to get deeper in the Word made such a positive impact on my journey.

After many months of medicated cycles, my OB told me she has exhausted all of our options and we needed to go to a fertility specialist. Their answer was simple: unexplained infertility and that we needed to do IVF.

I knew in my heart that IVF was not the plan that God had for us at that time. My husband and I agreed to give it a few more months before considering IUI. During that time, I began doing more of my own digging on root causes (what was causing my body not to do what God designed it to do) and found a functional medicine doctor who we began working with.

We began a protocol with them in November 2022 and found out I was pregnant naturally two months later in January 2023! God has showed up so many times in our journey to our daughter, Madeline. From finding Moms in the Making to being more involved in our church and attending my first women’s conference, to helping us move halfway across the country to be closer to family and most importantly, teaching us the importance of deepening our relationship with Him.

Maddie spent 19 days in the NICU with a very scary diagnosis, BUT God. After her initial diagnosis, all of her tests, labs and check-ins have come back with the most positive news. While we would never wish infertility or a long NICU stay for anyone, we are thankful for the closeness we felt with our Lord through it all. Maddie truly is the most perfect blessing from Him and we can’t wait to see what the rest of her story looks like!