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RESOURCE: Discernment as a couple
Discerning next steps can be challenging enough on your own, but discerning as a married couple is sometimes even harder. When it comes to..

Ellen H.
Mar 185 min read
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Seasons of infertility: infertility with children
My infertility did not go away when we started growing our family. My children did not cure my infertility. That is not their job.

thefruitfulhollow
May 22, 20245 min read
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Through the eyes of infertility: a collection of insights, part 2
“I’m going to be honest with you because someone needs to be. At your current weight, you have no business trying to conceive”. I steady...

thefruitfulhollow
Apr 24, 20247 min read
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35 years on: Pat and Lisa’s story
Lisa and I met and started dating in March of 1985. We have been married for 35 years. We are both cradle Catholics and active in our...

thefruitfulhollow
Nov 29, 20233 min read
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Behold, your mother: Our Lady, Star of the Sea
I met Our Lady, Star of the Sea on our first adoption journey. A case came through my email with a very specific name that the expectant...

Lauren Allen
Nov 1, 20233 min read
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When being open to life takes you into the unknown
I’ve always been pro-life. When I was in grade school I was even part of a “students for life” club. We prayed outside of abortion clinics..

thefruitfulhollow
Sep 20, 20234 min read
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When your child experiences infertility: your story
On July 26 the Church celebrates the feast of Sts. Anne and Joachim, parents of Our Lady, and the fourth Sunday of July is therefore known..

thefruitfulhollow
Jul 25, 20238 min read
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Seven saints to turn to on Mothers’ Day
We understand that Mothers’ Day can be difficult for couples experiencing infertility, loss, or any hard road to growing their family...

thefruitfulhollow
May 10, 20233 min read
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Help! I want to support someone I love on their infertility journey
Perhaps your sister, daughter or friend has shared with you that she and her husband are going through infertility and you want to know...

thefruitfulhollow
Apr 22, 20234 min read
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Spring comes slowly: grieving, healing and growing new dreams
The dead blooms of last year clung right beside the new buds which brimmed with possibility for the spring ahead. I did not see the roses...

Ellen H.
Apr 12, 20235 min read
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Forty days in the desert of infertility
Is there anything that more closely resembles the journey of infertility than the season of Lent? 40 long days alone in the desert, being...

Gillyan McCabe
Feb 21, 20233 min read
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Learning to accept God’s will through infertility
It is a surreal feeling to have your worst fear come true. From the time I was a little girl, all I wanted when I grew up was to be a wife..

Katie Gallivan
Nov 23, 20227 min read
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Here we go again
The reality is that infertility has no finish line. If you’ve carried the cross of infertility and were able to give birth, you’ve...

Lauren Allen
Nov 2, 20223 min read
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If God is in the details, why am I still waiting?
But what happens when the signs stop appearing? When the snacks stop coming, we’re aching with hunger and can’t see any meals on the way...

thefruitfulhollow
Jun 8, 20227 min read
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Adoption: your story
November is Adoption Awareness Month so we asked ourselves what that means. We decided that it means learning more about the gift and...

thefruitfulhollow
Nov 17, 202111 min read
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Adoption Diaries: Becoming acquainted with grief
A truth that I have come to know and accept is this: in order to adopt, you must grieve.

Lauren Allen
Aug 18, 20215 min read
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“Can’t you just adopt?”
A friend recently told me that when sharing their story of repeated miscarriages, she and her husband often heard the response, “Well,...

Rebecca V.
Apr 23, 20215 min read
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Ask Elizabeth, April 2021. Is embryo adoption morally licit?
Is embryo adoption a morally licit option for a Catholic couple?

thefruitfulhollow
Apr 14, 20212 min read
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