{"id":22,"date":"2006-09-17T09:53:57","date_gmt":"2006-09-17T14:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/angel\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2006-09-17T20:16:39","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T01:16:39","slug":"in-the-end-we-were-lucky-enough-to-only-get-a-small-taste-of-the-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"In the end, we were lucky enough to receive only a small taste of the pain&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I regularly keep up with the blogs of my friends and family, but I also read\u00c2\u00a0the blog of\u00c2\u00a0a person who I have never met, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superherodesigns.com\/journal\/\">Andrea Scher<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 She has a wonderful outlook on life and is very\u00c2\u00a0talented at telling stories.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, she was having difficulty becoming pregnant.\u00c2\u00a0 Matt and I went through that pain.\u00c2\u00a0 And I thought that what we went through was awful (and it was &#8212; very emotionally painful), but, in the end,\u00c2\u00a0it turns out that we were\u00c2\u00a0among the lucky ones.\u00c2\u00a0 I finally got pregnant with Lily after only two years of trying, and we were also lucky enough to become pregnant naturally; we didn&#8217;t go through any invasive medical procedures or medications.\u00c2\u00a0 And I became pregnant with Baby #2 after being off birth control for a year.<\/p>\n<p>So, we don&#8217;t become pregnant fast, but we do eventually get pregnant.\u00c2\u00a0 Given all the fertility issues my generation is having, that definitely makes us lucky.\u00c2\u00a0 And I&#8217;m grateful for that every day.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Scher just wrote the story of her journey to pregnancy on her journal.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a touching and heartfelt story, so I&#8217;ve decided to link it.\u00c2\u00a0 She really is talented at telling stories. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.superherodesigns.com\/journal\/archives\/000896.html\">The first part of the story.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.superherodesigns.com\/journal\/archives\/000917.html\">The second part of the story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I regularly keep up with the blogs of my friends and family, but I also read\u00c2\u00a0the blog of\u00c2\u00a0a person who I have never met, Andrea Scher.\u00c2\u00a0 She has a wonderful outlook on life and is very\u00c2\u00a0talented at telling stories. Recently, she was having difficulty becoming pregnant.\u00c2\u00a0 Matt and I went through that pain.\u00c2\u00a0 And I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}