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Holly's Surrogate Journey

I want nothing more than for them to be parents, I really want to do the honor of helping them become parents for the first time, but ultimately I just want them to have their baby, whether it’s with me or not.


Holly's Surrogate Journey
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Thankful Thursday - The Road Less Traveled

Thankful Thursday - The Road Less Traveled

I guess it’s fair to say that life presented the option to me to take “the road less traveled” at a very young age, even though that road was one that didn’t fit into my meticulously thought out, life “plan” at the time. My father passed away after a nearly life long battle with Lupus when I was barely 16 years old. Like any child that has lost a parent, I was devastated. Mostly grief stricken by the loss of such a significant person in my life but also completely distraught over all of the major life events that would no longer play out like I had always imagined, daydreamed about, even planned and in some instances, Type A orchestrated in my mind, since I was a small child. My father wouldn’t see me graduate from high school, move me into my first dorm, cheer me on during undergraduate graduation and then see me get my graduate degree, as well. I’d be walking down the aisle one day, alone. He’d never get the chance to see himself in my child’s eyes as he held him for the very first time. Growing up with a chronically ill parent – you have a tendency to daydream about the future. You imagine better days, celebrations with no need for medications or dialysis treatments, or Dad passing out and being rushed to the hospital in the middle of Christmas Eve Mass. All of my dreams seemed to vanish in a matter of moments that sunny, March morning that I watched my father die in our home.

Thankful Thursday - The Road Less Traveled

national infertility awareness week

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Thankful Thursday - National Infertility Awareness Week - Supporting the 1 in 8

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Thankful Thursday - National Infertility Awareness Week - Supporting the 1 in 8

This week is National Infertility Awareness Week.  Did you know that 1 in 8 couples struggle to start a family?  If you didn’t know the statistics were that high, it is because often the couples will hide behind their shame and disappointment and don’t share their experiences publicly.  Some couples get so tired of having to tell their excited loved ones that they had another miscarriage or failed transfer that they stop sharing.  They attend baby showers and birthday parties wanting to be happy for their friends and family but in reality, it just makes it harder.  National Infertility week is all about building awareness about what is going on all around us and even in our own circles.  If you haven’t experienced this struggle yourself you may not fully understand, but you don’t have to in order to make a difference- Sometimes being there is enough. By giving someone a safe space to be vulnerable, you are allowing them to open up and share their raw emotions in the safety of your friendship.