Welcome to my blog! After years of walking my road alone, I’ve created this blog as a way to connect with other Latter-Day Saints and Christians who may be going through the pain and heartache of desiring children, but not being able to have them. In trying to pursue parenthood, it seems I have been through it all…the infertility diagnosis, years of failed medical treatments, and even failed adoptions, so if you’re anywhere along the path I’ve trod, then I hope this blog will help you to know you don’t have to tread the winepress alone.
**Please note that although this blog is written from the perspective of a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, it is not sponsored by the LDS church. The opinions and content thereof are solely that of the author. If you desire to more know about the LDS church, please go to www.mormon.org.
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I’m sorry you have walked your road alone, but darling No More! We are all in this together. 🙂
littlejillybean is right! You are not alone! 😉
Never, never alone!!
I grew up in the suburbs of Salt Lake City. I am a 4 generation Utahan and 4th gen LDS member. starting in JR high I decided I didn’t want children and I knew in my heart of hearts I was not cut out for this responsibility. I served my country for 12 yrs, I served a mission and I married in the Jordan River temple. After 2 yrs of marriage I stopped using birth control and nothing naturally happened. Come to find out there was nothing any fertility doctor could have done to help me conceive my plumbing just was not up to the task. When members ask me about motherhood I tell them we don’t have children and all conversation suddenly stops. I become invisible I have had sisters get up and move when I sit down in the same row with them. I have had two RS presidency sisters voice their opinions. One told me that since I don’t have any children I don’t deserve any help and the other told me she feels it is selfish not to have children. Our new RS president introduced herself to me last November and when she asked me about children I told her no I am not a mother and that was the last time she spoke to me. Am I feeling a artic chill here???????
I am a childless LDS (convert) male. My medical diagnosis was “low sperm count.” I was told in Priesthood one Sunday that, “People who don’t have children in this life will be ignorant about how to raise them in the next life.” I don’t care about the next life yet. I care about having to live through this one without a child of my own. The older I get (I’m now 80), the harder it gets to face the fact that I will never be a father in this life. You’re right Shauna. In my experience, there is little to no empathy amongst LDS members toward those who have been unable to have children. At least not in any ward I’ve ever lived in in the U.S. or Canada. Members who treat childless members the way you and I have been treated lack the Christ-like attributes that we who are already hurting need from our fellow Latter-Day Saints. May God bless you in other ways Shauna. It’s the desire that counts the most whether our bodies are capable of producing or not.