A Christian woman shares how prayer sustained her through infertility and led her to pursue IVF, which she views as a God-given medical tool like chemotherapy or insulin. She combined functional and conventional medicine, and emphasizes the decision is personal spiritual discernment between each couple and God.
I don't know if all your listeners have faith, but I don't know how I would have gotten through this without faith. I mean, that's what sustained me. And again, like the prayer that's in the book, which we can certainly read at the end if you want, it's so important to just speak life over your uterus and just believe that God has a family, however it comes to be, you know, for you. But bringing IVF into the conversation, I, you know, I didn't know, like, is this something that I would support, that I would do for myself or not? And kind of I prayed, my husband and I, prayed for a long time, you know, before we went down that route. But the way I saw IVF was only God creates life, right? So, yes, I'm pursuing more aggressive technology, but I saw that as tools that he had given providers to help me with. It's kind of like the story of the man on the boat. I don't know how the story goes, but, you know, like the man sitting on the boat and people keep coming in the middle of the water and people keep coming by.
Yeah, for example, asking God to save them and he keeps sending them. Yes.
Right. But God keeps sending him people to help him, and he's not seeing that as help. Like, that's how I saw IVF. You know, if I had cancer and needed chemotherapy, or if I was diabetic and needed insulin, you know, I just felt like, okay, I have infertility. I need some additional help here. I'm okay with that. That is a tool that God has— amazing technology God has provided for me. And that's how I was at peace with this. You know, I guess I was using, of course, both functional medicine and conventional medicine. But I did have a piece of— and I know I have some friends who, you know, that you didn't proceed with IVF. They just didn't feel like that was right for them, and that's, that's totally fine. But I think that's between you and God to really decide, like, what path he has for you. And now I can reflect, reflect back years later saying, clearly that was part of my journey so I could write this book and share this with the world, right?
If you are trusting that God is making a way and he's using everything for your good and his glory, like, you just have to trust him. And you have to have that conversation because IVF might be right for you but not for someone else. That's a personal decision between you and God. So I, I really am glad that you said that. And I just want to say, like, if you're hearing all of this conversation and you're thinking, I don't know where to start, I would say just start asking different questions. Stop asking, like, what's wrong with me? And say, like, what have I missed? You know? And that's where you can dive into the book with curiosity and take some of the shame away and some of the guilt, because I'm sure that a lot of women feel that, you know. I know I do in my health journey, and I hear that from women struggling with fertility. So we just have to let all of that go and start to be kind to ourselves and trust that God is making a way for us.
