I regularly keep up with the blogs of my friends and family, but I also read the blog of a person who I have never met, Andrea Scher.  She has a wonderful outlook on life and is very talented at telling stories.

Recently, she was having difficulty becoming pregnant.  Matt and I went through that pain.  And I thought that what we went through was awful (and it was — very emotionally painful), but, in the end, it turns out that we were among the lucky ones.  I finally got pregnant with Lily after only two years of trying, and we were also lucky enough to become pregnant naturally; we didn’t go through any invasive medical procedures or medications.  And I became pregnant with Baby #2 after being off birth control for a year.

So, we don’t become pregnant fast, but we do eventually get pregnant.  Given all the fertility issues my generation is having, that definitely makes us lucky.  And I’m grateful for that every day.

Andrea Scher just wrote the story of her journey to pregnancy on her journal.  It’s a touching and heartfelt story, so I’ve decided to link it.  She really is talented at telling stories. 🙂

The first part of the story.
The second part of the story.