We struggled for 6 1/2 years with infertility. Some of the hardest years of my life, especially because all of our friends and family were having kids. After about 4 1/2 years, our OB said that in vitro was our last resort, and we of course declined and thought we just couldn’t have kids. Then we found out about a NaPro doc and that my progesterone was off, as well as an elevated prolactin level so my body thought I was constantly breastfeeding. The Creighton model and NaPro brought us 3 of our 4 babies (one was a happily unplanned pregnancy!) I am 37 and pregnant with my fourth baby. I cannot say enough for these methods. Not only did it help us conceive our first, but now we know what works for us going forward (for us, femara and progesterone and about a year). I have had to take progesterone injections for all of my babies and am determined that I would have miscarried all of them had I not taken progesterone. I feel so blessed not to have lost any babies. Also, my original OB refused to check progesterone which is infuriating. That was the first thing they checked at my new OB. Also, we conceived in January 2013. In October 2012 we went to a healing mass of St Gerard at Our Lady of Consolation in Carey, OH. When we conceived, I emailed to let them know and they said 7 other couples had conceived also!
Ive been subbed to you for years and im finally leaving a comment! this video reminded me to be so grateful for my fertility DESPITE the words of discouragement I get. I have 3 under 3 and one of my "fears" since having my 3rd was the social stigma of having 4 under 4 or even 4 in general. I get so many looks and comments "not always outright rude but sometimes passive aggressive" and its taught me to be ashamed of my fertility and how many children we have. I had tears in my eyes hearing you talk about your miscarriages and praying for another baby- I should pray more and thank God more for my kids- rather than being afraid of the worlds judgment.
I was only 19 and my husband was 23 when we got married We both came from a Catholic family, and we both came from small family. My husband was the only child, and i have 2 sebling but the other one died. So after we got married we really want to start family right away. My husband joined the Military so that i can have a good health care coverage. We have done about everything just to have a baby, but nothing happening my husband and i always a believers that everything happened for a reason specially after we read the verse in the book of (Wisdom 3:13-14 to 4:1) So it was never painful to both of us cuz of our faith, we learned to just live it to God, even thou after we already been married for over 18 years. In late 1997 my husband was deployed to Afghanistan, and he got hurt and made him completely paralized that he need 24/7 of my cares and that we understand the answers of why we didn't have children. My husband pass away in December 8 1999. I was only 39 years old when my husband died, but i never remarried but i instead become more close to God. I don't fills sad not having children cuz God gives me all his answers.
Please pray for my husband and I and our family! Holy family, pray for us. We have been married for 4 years without any pregnancies. We were directed by the Holy Spirit to foster to adopt and have a beautiful little toddler boy who we are hoping to adopt (in God's time), we are also discerning about fostering to adopt boy and girl twins who are around 4 years old, while also praying for pregnancies. Please pray that my husband and myself seek out good and not worldly things or desires. Please pray that we may be blessed with a family full of love and children. Jesus, I trust in you!!!!
Hello I'm using the clearblue fertility monitor and let me tell you its amazing . I had a miscarriage in my first year of marriage and we had a year trying and yes losing weight was the best way for me to get pregnant but we had some complications and for the mercy of God everything came out great with my first born. God bless you and thank you for your story
Hi Heather I love your channel! I’m in the UK. I was blessed with a beautiful daughter in 2017 and would love to have another baby. Sadly I have had two miscarriages since she was born. I am now 43 and my husband has a very low sperm count so I feel the odds are against us but I am going to keep praying and leave it to God. Like you said he knows what he is doing and we need trust in him. I will pray the novena too. Thank you for your help with this video. God bless xx
LOL ... I have no idea why I watched this video. I am almost 47, single, and going through menopause. This video had nothing to do with me. Yet, I sat here and watched it anyway. lolololololol. You do so much good for so many people, Heather. Your talk on struggling with infertility and crying yourself to sleep is how I feel about being single. My whole life, I have wanted to be married. I truly feel that is my calling. Yet, it has never happened. I have been on Catholic Match for two years and it is so quiet there. I only met one man on there and he wasn't looking for anything serious. Could you do a video on singleness? I know I'm older than the typical 20s and 30s single ladies, but the pain gets worse each year that I remain single. I feel in my core I was meant for marriage and I cannot believe God would put such a strong desire in me if it wasn't my calling. I have done novena after novena. Rosary after rosary. 54-day Rosary novenas. The pain you described when you faced infertility is the pain I feel being unmarried. I have prayed for a husband for almost 30 years now. I do have a 23 year old son from an exboyfriend at a time when I wasn't a practicing Catholic but I want a marriage. Like most people, I don't want to grow old alone. Do you have suggestions? A certain novena? Maybe I've done the wrong ones ... certain prayers ... tips? Can you do a video on this? Thank you. P.S. - I have kept you and your family and pregnancy in my prayer intentions. Watching your videos are a highlight of my week. I love your family and your faith in God. God bless you and all your subscribers
I have a Catholic guy friend who is in the same place. He is praying for marriage 🙏 I'm sorry for your heartbreak. Praying for you, your son, and your future husband!
How about you go out to places where people meet people? Like cafes, sports places, dance classes- depending what you personally like. Just probably not knitting classes or romantic movies, chances are you won't meet many men there.
Thanks for this video Heather!! Yes please pray for me. I have been struggling for many years now. I have been working with one of the Saint Paul VI Institute doctors in Omaha (even though I don’t live in Nebraska) and they are wonderful indeed. They will really do everything they can to get to the bottom of it, versus just bypassing the issue with IVF or IUI. They work with many patients out of state and even in foreign countries (we do tele health appointments or email back and forth, send out blood specimens by mail, etc) I had multiple surgeries and have been on supplements and medication to help. At least I do feel healthier. One thing I would add to what you said is that NaPro Technology actually specializes in women’s health overall and not just fertility. They have patients who are teens and even older women. They can help with issues that are not related to fertility (irregular cycles, irregular bleeding, irregular hormones, cramps, etc.)
Love the Saint Paul Institute! We have a beautiful 3 month old daughter because of all their care. We also wanted a honeymoon child but didn't happen. We prayed a novena to St. Gerald and were blessed with our little one a while later. Thank you for sharing your experience and your Catholic faith. Love all the content you have shared.
Thank you for sharing your testimony. As you were trying to put into words the pain infertility brings, I completely understood that pain and for the first time in over 10 years I felt someone completely understood the pain I suffer from infertility. I had a miscarriage at 6 weeks during my husbands deployment. Ever since 2009 we have not been able to conceive. We are not turning any younger and I do hope God sends us children. I humbly ask that you pray for us to be blessed with a healthy, full term pregnancy. I desire with all my heart being a mom of a living child. I will also start praying a novena and ask that our petition be added to your daily prayers. I know Mother Mary will intercede before God for The Cisneros-Lemus to conceive. I thank you in advance for your prayers. 🙏🏼
We struggled with infertility for 6 years and would also suggest that a Reproductive Endocrinologist is an excellent place to go. We were so fortune to find one who listened to our desires and our limitations and she worked with us and honored our wishes and never pushed us into anything. We now have 16 year old triplets!
Thank you for this ❤️ I have endometriosis! We are getting married in three weeks and plan to start trying next year! I want to take the last few months of this year to get my body healthy and ready, praying that we don’t have a issue!
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Maybe I should start a channel like yours to share my Catholic faith, infertility/endometriosis journey, and how the Blessed Mother and her rosary helped me? You're right - it is so painful. I cried myself to sleep many times too. My advice? Pick up the rosary or do a 54 rosary novena and offer it up! Yes, it's very difficult to realize God's will was for me and my husband not to be able to conceive. I'd love to adopt, but how at age 55? Not many agencies ect. would pick a couple in their fifties to adopt a child. So I continue to pray the rosary and offer it up - it's all I can do.
I suffered a miscarriage last year in June and it was mine and my fiancés first child together and we have been struggling ever since we’ve both prayed that I would get pregnant and it just hasn’t happened. So if everyone in your community would pray for us that would be amazing. Side note we do plan on getting married next year
I loved that! I am still praying for a great marriage, but I sent this to 3 friends who have been wanting to have more children! All not Catholics, but it’s still amazing information.
I'm not Catholic, but a believer in Christ, and I totally second PRAYER! And trusting the Lord. Also a good diet and balancing hormones. I didn't experience infertility, but it did take us nearly a year to get pregnant with her first, and that seemed like a long time to me! With my second, it only took a couple of months, and with to my last two, they were both a bit of a surprise 😲😄 I think another thing that can affect hormones, is stress, anxiety and depression etc. Very important. Changing Diet can be helpful. I switched to a lower grains and processed foods and sugars, to a higher healthy fat (I eat a lot of saturated fat, from grass-fed meat, coconut oil, grass-fed butter, avocado oil, etc, but not a lot of processed fats) fruit and vegetable, and healthy protein diet. I'm not an expert, but my body is definitely more fertile than it used to be, so I am sure my diet has helped. Get enough B vitamins and vitamin D also. We need way more Vit D than people think.
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I would consider you a mom to 7 babies, but 5 are still here on earth. You’ll meet your two sweet heavenly children when we all get to heaven! I love your beautiful family!
4.5 years of infertility. 2 miscarriages. Endometriosis and adenamyosis. Having 2nd surgery next month with a specialist to remove the endo. Please pray we can conceive after the surgery! Also pray that we we are strong enough to avoid IVF!
Great video! I just subscribed and have binge-watching your videos and I am very proud to say that I know when you pregnant cause you always sound so out of breath! :D Your face seems smaller in this pregnancy compared to other pregnancies as well. Congratulations on your fifth and I wish you a safe pregnancy and delivery!
I recently found your channel in my you tube feed,and am so appreciative of your you tube work. I say the rosary with you each night before bed. Its wonderful. Thank you. Blessings Patti
My husband and I suffered from infertility for 16 years - from the time we were married until the time my ovaries were removed due to cysts. We never had a baby. We had 2 very early miscarriages. We conceived on our honeymoon and got a positive pregnancy test. The next day my period started and the test at the doctor’s office was negative. I don’t believe that the blastocyst even had a chance to implant. The next time, I was pregnant, maybe 6-8 weeks along and I didn’t know it. My period started and in with the blood was a tiny pink embryo about an inch long. So I didn’t know I was pregnant until I’d already miscarried. We tried various infertility treatments which did not work. We explored adoption and found that we just could not afford it. In the 1990’s and 2000’s when we were researching it, the cost was $20,000-$30,000. Now it’s more like $40.000. We considered being foster parents or doing foster-to-adopt, but there are so many hoops you have to jump through and then when they start placing children with you, you have to be able to give them back because not every foster ends in adoption. I didn’t think I could handle falling in love with a child and then having to give the child back. It’s very hard for me to hear about someone who has struggled with infertility for a much shorter time than I did and then ended up with a baby either biologically or adopted.
Thanks for your sharing Heather!!! I suffer from PCOS with irregular period and ttc for almost a year, sometimes I feel useless because my body doesn't work like others but I trust God has a perfect time to us, keep on praying and have faith.
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Thank you so much for this Heather. Especially for being so kind with your honesty. God bless you. Praying you continue to have a safe remaining pregnancy and delivery.
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I go into the lab tomorrow to get my blood drawn to officially get tested for PCOS. I’m 20 and right after my initial appointment today, I went straight to a priest and was literally shaking and trying my hardest not to cry while I tried to explain to him how lost I feel especially if I do end up getting diagnosed. I have no time to feel anything else but emptiness and depression while waiting around for answers- it’s the worst feeling in the world.
Currently trying with naprotechnology. There are napro doctors in many different countries, I suggest contacting your local Catholic Family Centre or just some parish staff and asking them how to find a napro doctor, they usually know or know someone who knows. I am from Lituhuania. Prayers would be appreciated:)
One thing I found super frustrating during my journey thru infertility while being a practicing Catholic and in this video is that there is an assumption it’s female infertility. 50% of the time it’s male factor. Putting all the emphasis on women is hard. After some spiritual duration from a wonderful Jesuit I prayed and discerned that IUI though technically against church teaching was what God had for our family. I think being open to discernment is always a good idea.
Hi Heather from Argentina, and ive had a Miscarriage. My doctor Is a napro doctor and told me to wait before I get pregnant again so that He could analize my ovules. Ive just had my period so It's been like a month already.
so she had five kids after age 30 and she didn't need ivf. am I right that she is just saying she thought she was infertile because she didn't get pregnant as fast as she wanted ? that is not infertility
I struggle with where to draw the line on fertility treatment tbh. Technically even a man getting his sperm tested is going against teaching but it's just as necessary as a woman getting tested which i did and discovered a lot of blockages which I needed surgery to remove. We said we would leave it there but when that didn't work we said maybe the next thing, then the next things etc. We knew for sure we would never do IVF even though my views don't completely match up with the Catholic Church. We did do some things that we wouldn't do now but we also did everything "natural" and nothing worked. We did eventually have a baby but that's a story for a different day :-)
I have been waiting for this video with open arms. Your heart for helping others is so wonderful. What was the diagnosis for your infertility ???? What changed to get pregnant with your other children. Two years at age thirty is actually not super long, I know it feels like an eternity. Are you sure you were try to conceive when you were fertile ? You don’t seem to have a problem getting pregnant. 🤔 I know you have said that you ovulate a little early. Maybe you didn’t have infertility, maybe your timing was just off? 🤷🏼♀️ Alot of women have this misunderstanding. Most tracking is standard, based on ovulation as day 14 to 15, but a lot of women don’t ovulate on those days of their cycle. You would have needed to be using NFP & ovulation Kits to predict accurately. You mentioned you got a predictor monitor in the mail, but you were already prego. Were you using NFP to get prego? If not How were you tracking to know your fertile window? You’re definitely timing it correctly now, yay! 😁 🤗 I’m sooo happy you mentioned about where to get progesterone. I wanted to look into that also. Mine is low, I would want/ need some of i got prego. Some O.B. Don’t even take it into consideration until you’ve already had 2 miscarriages. That is so sad. Babies that could have been saved otherwise. God Bless you, I’m so happy that novena was huge blessing 😘 congratulations on your new bun in the oven. ❤️
Omg I have 2 children and after I started looking for my 3rd in 2020 I have lost 5!! I’m 38 and have no diagnosis as to why this is happening. 😭😭😭 Not a single doctor looked at my hormones. I also told my last OB that I was high risk because of my losses and I asked them to check and prescribe me progesterone and they told me they didn’t do that
Weve been trying for years, ive prayed St Josephs Holy Cloak am I starting again this month. I have a teen but not yet a sibling. Im 42 this year so dont have much time 😢❤
I wish that I could find or all of the sudden..mother Mary and God to send someone in my life to be a surrogate mother for a child for me. If it wasn't so expensive that be great. Pray for me I feel sad thinking I won't be able to get that help.🙏🙏🙏🤲🤲🇨🇦😟😥
God is not going to send you a surrogate mother at all. I' m afraid that this procedure is morally forbiden if you believe in Him. In our Cathechism you can check out why... My prays for you to achieve your baby in a natural way or adopt 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🕊️
Hi Hemely, I'm sorry for your sadness. Maybe you aren't aware of what the Church teaches about IVF & surrogacy, so I thought I'd point it out to you, so that you are informed about what the Church teaches about it, before possibly pursuing the surrogate and/or IVF path to motherhood. I know that surrogacy & IVF may seem like a good, and even honorable option. I once thought it was a great option for people facing infertility problems... but then, I came to understand Church teaching on it, and realized the many ethical & moral problems associated with it - many that have played out publicly in our society. I now realize that the Church is absolutely correct on what it teaches, and always teaches the truth, even when the truth is a "hard" truth to accept. "May the Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; The Lord lift up His countenance upon you, And give you peace.” 🙏 www.catholicworldreport.com/2016/06/04/why-everyone-should-oppose-surrogacy/ blog.adw.org/2013/06/why-the-church-opposes-surrogate-motherhood-and-attempts-to-legalize-in-the-district-of-columbia/
This is completely OFF-TOPIC, but I once knew a woman who was about 19-21 years old or so, and right after she had her 1st, newly born infant, she wanted ANOTHER one... and I was like "Don't you think it'd be wise to rest and let your body regain its' strength." Plus, she wasn't exactly "financially stable", so I couldn't imagine how she'd want another kid, especially when her mother was the one taking care of her 1st. I suppose she was REALLY EAGER to have another one, which thankfully I don't wish to understand why that is, for the reasons I stated. XD
Lupe E. Great question! I first want to say that everything the Catholic Church teaches or does not accept is for our own good. Because IUI removes conception from the sexual (conjugal) act, it is contrary to Church teaching. I just said a prayer for whomever in your life is enduring infertility
hey! I absolutely love your channel! I had a question tho, what if its the man's fault? Like I know it is so common for men to have low sperm count or slow swimmers who cant make it? Does napro help with that as well?
Hi. I'm just wondering how these hormones are sourced to be used for infertility. Is it morally correct to be pumping ourselves with hormones that are not our own. Asking sincerely not trying to play devil's advocate or anything. I am thinking of beginning this journey myself. Thank you 😊
Please someone reply. Ok, IVF is wrong but a child who is born of IVF, how does the church accpet this child?? I mean I was born of IVF and I didn't know that it was not accepted in the church. But since I got to know about it I am having doubts about my existence. Did God not want me to be here? I was an accident? Everyone else was formed in the mother's womb by God himself, but I was deliberately brought into existence. I am struggling with this, I used to go to church frequently earlier, but since I have got to know about this I am having second thoughts on my faith and religion. I feel that God doesn't love me, he didn't create me. This breaks my heart. Pls help me someone.
I've read there is a thing called seed rotation that should help balance estrogen and progesterone(people use it to get regular periods), I dont know how good it works, but in that eating sunflower and sesame seeds in the second half of your period helps with progesterone.
I feel like I'm in the other side of the spectrum, I'm very fertile and scared to get pregnant again I already have 6 kids and 38 years old. My husband does not trust nfp and decided to stick with using condoms tmi I know, i just feel guilty.
Hey go check out The last Reformation’s channel, what I saw in this channel was amazing!! I saw people getting healed from back pains and sicknesses in Jesus name. What I learned is when we receive the Holy Spirit we have the gift of healing and many more. We can be more than just Christians we can become disciples of Jesus, I hope you receive this god bless you.
Hormone Doctor is called a Napro Doctor
Saint Paul VI institute Catholic Napro Doctor and health care specialist popepaulvi.com/
Sending prayers to all the women hoping to conceive! Great video, Heather! 💜🙏🏻
We struggled for 6 1/2 years with infertility. Some of the hardest years of my life, especially because all of our friends and family were having kids. After about 4 1/2 years, our OB said that in vitro was our last resort, and we of course declined and thought we just couldn’t have kids. Then we found out about a NaPro doc and that my progesterone was off, as well as an elevated prolactin level so my body thought I was constantly breastfeeding. The Creighton model and NaPro brought us 3 of our 4 babies (one was a happily unplanned pregnancy!) I am 37 and pregnant with my fourth baby. I cannot say enough for these methods. Not only did it help us conceive our first, but now we know what works for us going forward (for us, femara and progesterone and about a year). I have had to take progesterone injections for all of my babies and am determined that I would have miscarried all of them had I not taken progesterone. I feel so blessed not to have lost any babies. Also, my original OB refused to check progesterone which is infuriating. That was the first thing they checked at my new OB.
Also, we conceived in January 2013. In October 2012 we went to a healing mass of St Gerard at Our Lady of Consolation in Carey, OH. When we conceived, I emailed to let them know and they said 7 other couples had conceived also!
Love this- when you say about a year, was that a year in the femara and progesterone? Thanks!
How amazing that you did a novena for your child. That's the perfect blessing to prelude a pregnancy. The graces we need at every step of life.🙏🥰
Ive been subbed to you for years and im finally leaving a comment! this video reminded me to be so grateful for my fertility DESPITE the words of discouragement I get. I have 3 under 3 and one of my "fears" since having my 3rd was the social stigma of having 4 under 4 or even 4 in general. I get so many looks and comments "not always outright rude but sometimes passive aggressive" and its taught me to be ashamed of my fertility and how many children we have. I had tears in my eyes hearing you talk about your miscarriages and praying for another baby- I should pray more and thank God more for my kids- rather than being afraid of the worlds judgment.
4 under 4 shows how strong you are. Raising kids is hard. Great work.
I was only 19 and my husband was 23 when we got married We both came from a Catholic family, and we both came from small family. My husband was the only child, and i have 2 sebling but the other one died. So after we got married we really want to start family right away. My husband joined the Military so that i can have a good health care coverage. We have done about everything just to have a baby, but nothing happening my husband and i always a believers that everything happened for a reason specially after we read the verse in the book of (Wisdom 3:13-14 to 4:1) So it was never painful to both of us cuz of our faith, we learned to just live it to God, even thou after we already been married for over 18 years. In late 1997 my husband was deployed to Afghanistan, and he got hurt and made him completely paralized that he need 24/7 of my cares and that we understand the answers of why we didn't have children. My husband pass away in December 8 1999. I was only 39 years old when my husband died, but i never remarried but i instead become more close to God. I don't fills sad not having children cuz God gives me all his answers.
May God continue to bless you and give you peace and consolation.
Please pray for my husband and I and our family! Holy family, pray for us.
We have been married for 4 years without any pregnancies. We were directed by the Holy Spirit to foster to adopt and have a beautiful little toddler boy who we are hoping to adopt (in God's time), we are also discerning about fostering to adopt boy and girl twins who are around 4 years old, while also praying for pregnancies.
Please pray that my husband and myself seek out good and not worldly things or desires. Please pray that we may be blessed with a family full of love and children.
Jesus, I trust in you!!!!
Hello I'm using the clearblue fertility monitor and let me tell you its amazing . I had a miscarriage in my first year of marriage and we had a year trying and yes losing weight was the best way for me to get pregnant but we had some complications and for the mercy of God everything came out great with my first born. God bless you and thank you for your story
Hi Heather I love your channel! I’m in the UK. I was blessed with a beautiful daughter in 2017 and would love to have another baby. Sadly I have had two miscarriages since she was born. I am now 43 and my husband has a very low sperm count so I feel the odds are against us but I am going to keep praying and leave it to God. Like you said he knows what he is doing and we need trust in him. I will pray the novena too. Thank you for your help with this video. God bless xx
St Joseph Holy Cloak ❤
I love seeing the pure joy radiating from you when you talk about our faith. God bless you and your family :)
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LOL ... I have no idea why I watched this video. I am almost 47, single, and going through menopause. This video had nothing to do with me. Yet, I sat here and watched it anyway. lolololololol. You do so much good for so many people, Heather. Your talk on struggling with infertility and crying yourself to sleep is how I feel about being single. My whole life, I have wanted to be married. I truly feel that is my calling. Yet, it has never happened. I have been on Catholic Match for two years and it is so quiet there. I only met one man on there and he wasn't looking for anything serious. Could you do a video on singleness? I know I'm older than the typical 20s and 30s single ladies, but the pain gets worse each year that I remain single. I feel in my core I was meant for marriage and I cannot believe God would put such a strong desire in me if it wasn't my calling. I have done novena after novena. Rosary after rosary. 54-day Rosary novenas. The pain you described when you faced infertility is the pain I feel being unmarried. I have prayed for a husband for almost 30 years now. I do have a 23 year old son from an exboyfriend at a time when I wasn't a practicing Catholic but I want a marriage. Like most people, I don't want to grow old alone. Do you have suggestions? A certain novena? Maybe I've done the wrong ones ... certain prayers ... tips? Can you do a video on this? Thank you. P.S. - I have kept you and your family and pregnancy in my prayer intentions. Watching your videos are a highlight of my week. I love your family and your faith in God. God bless you and all your subscribers
painful confession.
*marriage < children*
@@anonymous2012s Nope. I'm proud of my son, not ashamed.
@@footstepsthroughhistory Have you prayed to Saint Joseph? He was the one who helped me...
I have a Catholic guy friend who is in the same place. He is praying for marriage 🙏 I'm sorry for your heartbreak. Praying for you, your son, and your future husband!
How about you go out to places where people meet people? Like cafes, sports places, dance classes- depending what you personally like. Just probably not knitting classes or romantic movies, chances are you won't meet many men there.
Thanks for this video Heather!! Yes please pray for me. I have been struggling for many years now. I have been working with one of the Saint Paul VI Institute doctors in Omaha (even though I don’t live in Nebraska) and they are wonderful indeed. They will really do everything they can to get to the bottom of it, versus just bypassing the issue with IVF or IUI. They work with many patients out of state and even in foreign countries (we do tele health appointments or email back and forth, send out blood specimens by mail, etc) I had multiple surgeries and have been on supplements and medication to help. At least I do feel healthier. One thing I would add to what you said is that NaPro Technology actually specializes in women’s health overall and not just fertility. They have patients who are teens and even older women. They can help with issues that are not related to fertility (irregular cycles, irregular bleeding, irregular hormones, cramps, etc.)
Love the Saint Paul Institute! We have a beautiful 3 month old daughter because of all their care. We also wanted a honeymoon child but didn't happen. We prayed a novena to St. Gerald and were blessed with our little one a while later.
Thank you for sharing your experience and your Catholic faith. Love all the content you have shared.
Thank you for sharing your testimony. As you were trying to put into words the pain infertility brings, I completely understood that pain and for the first time in over 10 years I felt someone completely understood the pain I suffer from infertility. I had a miscarriage at 6 weeks during my husbands deployment. Ever since 2009 we have not been able to conceive. We are not turning any younger and I do hope God sends us children. I humbly ask that you pray for us to be blessed with a healthy, full term pregnancy. I desire with all my heart being a mom of a living child. I will also start praying a novena and ask that our petition be added to your daily prayers. I know Mother Mary will intercede before God for The Cisneros-Lemus to conceive. I thank you in advance for your prayers. 🙏🏼
We struggled with infertility for 6 years and would also suggest that a Reproductive Endocrinologist is an excellent place to go. We were so fortune to find one who listened to our desires and our limitations and she worked with us and honored our wishes and never pushed us into anything. We now have 16 year old triplets!
You’re 40!? You don’t look a day over 28. Great video as always! 😊❤️
cuz she has lots of kids.
and faith.
Thank you for you and great video❣️ please pray for me and my husband, I'm 40 and been married 2 years.
Thank you for this ❤️ I have endometriosis! We are getting married in three weeks and plan to start trying next year! I want to take the last few months of this year to get my body healthy and ready, praying that we don’t have a issue!
I will pray for you!
I suffer from PCOS and struggled with infertility for years! I am now blessed with 2 daughters. Dont give up! God Bless you💜
A Catholic Mom's Life where are the links? Great video!
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Maybe I should start a channel like yours to share my Catholic faith, infertility/endometriosis journey, and how the Blessed Mother and her rosary helped me? You're right - it is so painful. I cried myself to sleep many times too. My advice? Pick up the rosary or do a 54 rosary novena and offer it up! Yes, it's very difficult to realize God's will was for me and my husband not to be able to conceive. I'd love to adopt, but how at age 55? Not many agencies ect. would pick a couple in their fifties to adopt a child. So I continue to pray the rosary and offer it up - it's all I can do.
Got pregnant with my little miracle with napro!
I suffered a miscarriage last year in June and it was mine and my fiancés first child together and we have been struggling ever since we’ve both prayed that I would get pregnant and it just hasn’t happened. So if everyone in your community would pray for us that would be amazing. Side note we do plan on getting married next year
I loved that! I am still praying for a great marriage, but I sent this to 3 friends who have been wanting to have more children! All not Catholics, but it’s still amazing information.
I'm not Catholic, but a believer in Christ, and I totally second PRAYER! And trusting the Lord. Also a good diet and balancing hormones. I didn't experience infertility, but it did take us nearly a year to get pregnant with her first, and that seemed like a long time to me! With my second, it only took a couple of months, and with to my last two, they were both a bit of a surprise 😲😄 I think another thing that can affect hormones, is stress, anxiety and depression etc. Very important. Changing Diet can be helpful. I switched to a lower grains and processed foods and sugars, to a higher healthy fat (I eat a lot of saturated fat, from grass-fed meat, coconut oil, grass-fed butter, avocado oil, etc, but not a lot of processed fats) fruit and vegetable, and healthy protein diet. I'm not an expert, but my body is definitely more fertile than it used to be, so I am sure my diet has helped. Get enough B vitamins and vitamin D also. We need way more Vit D than people think.
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Oooooo my goodness St Pope John Paul II interceed for us to I prayed this novena to
I would consider you a mom to 7 babies, but 5 are still here on earth. You’ll meet your two sweet heavenly children when we all get to heaven! I love your beautiful family!
I am watching this again after having my second miscarriage. Please pray for me. I have also had 2 healthy babies.
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4.5 years of infertility. 2 miscarriages. Endometriosis and adenamyosis. Having 2nd surgery next month with a specialist to remove the endo. Please pray we can conceive after the surgery! Also pray that we we are strong enough to avoid IVF!
Praying for you! Trusting in God can be so hard sometimes🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Great video! I just subscribed and have binge-watching your videos and I am very proud to say that I know when you pregnant cause you always sound so out of breath! :D Your face seems smaller in this pregnancy compared to other pregnancies as well. Congratulations on your fifth and I wish you a safe pregnancy and delivery!
So glad you are here! lol too funny, Im sure I will get my round face soon:)
I recently found your channel in my you tube feed,and am so appreciative of your you tube work. I say the rosary with you each night before bed. Its wonderful. Thank you.
Blessings
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My husband and I suffered from infertility for 16 years - from the time we were married until the time my ovaries were removed due to cysts. We never had a baby. We had 2 very early miscarriages. We conceived on our honeymoon and got a positive pregnancy test. The next day my period started and the test at the doctor’s office was negative. I don’t believe that the blastocyst even had a chance to implant. The next time, I was pregnant, maybe 6-8 weeks along and I didn’t know it. My period started and in with the blood was a tiny pink embryo about an inch long. So I didn’t know I was pregnant until I’d already miscarried. We tried various infertility treatments which did not work. We explored adoption and found that we just could not afford it. In the 1990’s and 2000’s when we were researching it, the cost was $20,000-$30,000. Now it’s more like $40.000. We considered being foster parents or doing foster-to-adopt, but there are so many hoops you have to jump through and then when they start placing children with you, you have to be able to give them back because not every foster ends in adoption. I didn’t think I could handle falling in love with a child and then having to give the child back. It’s very hard for me to hear about someone who has struggled with infertility for a much shorter time than I did and then ended up with a baby either biologically or adopted.
Bless you
God bless you. I totally understand your pain. I agree with you and going through similar experience. I will pray for you ❤️🙏
Thanks for your sharing Heather!!! I suffer from PCOS with irregular period and ttc for almost a year, sometimes I feel useless because my body doesn't work like others but I trust God has a perfect time to us, keep on praying and have faith.
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Thank you so much for this Heather. Especially for being so kind with your honesty. God bless you. Praying you continue to have a safe remaining pregnancy and delivery.
I found the prayer on the link and since recorded it. Thanks. 🙏🏾😇
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Gracias 🙏🏼 y bendiciones para vuestra familia y familiares. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I go into the lab tomorrow to get my blood drawn to officially get tested for PCOS. I’m 20 and right after my initial appointment today, I went straight to a priest and was literally shaking and trying my hardest not to cry while I tried to explain to him how lost I feel especially if I do end up getting diagnosed. I have no time to feel anything else but emptiness and depression while waiting around for answers- it’s the worst feeling in the world.
Currently trying with naprotechnology. There are napro doctors in many different countries, I suggest contacting your local Catholic Family Centre or just some parish staff and asking them how to find a napro doctor, they usually know or know someone who knows. I am from Lituhuania.
Prayers would be appreciated:)
One thing I found super frustrating during my journey thru infertility while being a practicing Catholic and in this video is that there is an assumption it’s female infertility. 50% of the time it’s male factor. Putting all the emphasis on women is hard. After some spiritual duration from a wonderful Jesuit I prayed and discerned that IUI though technically against church teaching was what God had for our family. I think being open to discernment is always a good idea.
I agree, trust in your relationship with Christ. Ultimately he is still in charge, whether you go through treatment or not.
Hi Heather from Argentina, and ive had a Miscarriage. My doctor Is a napro doctor and told me to wait before I get pregnant again so that He could analize my ovules. Ive just had my period so It's been like a month already.
so she had five kids after age 30 and she didn't need ivf. am I right that she is just saying she thought she was infertile because she didn't get pregnant as fast as she wanted ? that is not infertility
Yes to the progesterone!
You are an amazing example! 💜
I struggle with where to draw the line on fertility treatment tbh. Technically even a man getting his sperm tested is going against teaching but it's just as necessary as a woman getting tested which i did and discovered a lot of blockages which I needed surgery to remove. We said we would leave it there but when that didn't work we said maybe the next thing, then the next things etc. We knew for sure we would never do IVF even though my views don't completely match up with the Catholic Church. We did do some things that we wouldn't do now but we also did everything "natural" and nothing worked. We did eventually have a baby but that's a story for a different day :-)
I have been waiting for this video with open arms. Your heart for helping others is so wonderful. What was the diagnosis for your infertility ???? What changed to get pregnant with your other children. Two years at age thirty is actually not super long, I know it feels like an eternity. Are you sure you were try to conceive when you were fertile ? You don’t seem to have a problem getting pregnant. 🤔 I know you have said that you ovulate a little early. Maybe you didn’t have infertility, maybe your timing was just off? 🤷🏼♀️ Alot of women have this misunderstanding. Most tracking is standard, based on ovulation as day 14 to 15, but a lot of women don’t ovulate on those days of their cycle. You would have needed to be using NFP & ovulation Kits to predict accurately. You mentioned you got a predictor monitor in the mail, but you were already prego. Were you using NFP to get prego? If not How were you tracking to know your fertile window? You’re definitely timing it correctly now, yay! 😁 🤗
I’m sooo happy you mentioned about where to get progesterone. I wanted to look into that also. Mine is low, I would want/ need some of i got prego. Some O.B. Don’t even take it into consideration until you’ve already had 2 miscarriages. That is so sad. Babies that could have been saved otherwise. God Bless you, I’m so happy that novena was huge blessing 😘 congratulations on your new bun in the oven. ❤️
Yes I agree, even when everything is perfectly timed correctly you still only have a 20% chance of getting pregnant
2 years of a couple having regular intercourse and not conceiving is the technical definition of infertility.
Thank you so much for sharing your story ❤ can you please share the novena you prayed to John Paul II? I'd like to pray it as well! 🙏
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LOTS of eggs, liver and whole (raw) milk is amazing for fertility!
The lord is great 🙏🙏🙌 Hope self believe helps and relaxing , thinking positive influence response.
Loads of love n prayers..from India
hi friend super video :)
Omg I have 2 children and after I started looking for my 3rd in 2020 I have lost 5!! I’m 38 and have no diagnosis as to why this is happening. 😭😭😭 Not a single doctor looked at my hormones. I also told my last OB that I was high risk because of my losses and I asked them to check and prescribe me progesterone and they told me they didn’t do that
Weve been trying for years, ive prayed St Josephs Holy Cloak am I starting again this month. I have a teen but not yet a sibling. Im 42 this year so dont have much time 😢❤
I wish that I could find or all of the sudden..mother Mary and God to send someone in my life to be a surrogate mother for a child for me. If it wasn't so expensive that be great. Pray for me I feel sad thinking I won't be able to get that help.🙏🙏🙏🤲🤲🇨🇦😟😥
God is not going to send you a surrogate mother at all.
I' m afraid that this procedure is morally forbiden if you believe in Him. In our Cathechism you can check out why...
My prays for you to achieve your baby in a natural way or adopt 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🕊️
Hi Hemely, I'm sorry for your sadness. Maybe you aren't aware of what the Church teaches about IVF & surrogacy, so I thought I'd point it out to you, so that you are informed about what the Church teaches about it, before possibly pursuing the surrogate and/or IVF path to motherhood. I know that surrogacy & IVF may seem like a good, and even honorable option. I once thought it was a great option for people facing infertility problems... but then, I came to understand Church teaching on it, and realized the many ethical & moral problems associated with it - many that have played out publicly in our society. I now realize that the Church is absolutely correct on what it teaches, and always teaches the truth, even when the truth is a "hard" truth to accept.
"May the Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; The Lord lift up His countenance upon you, And give you peace.” 🙏
www.catholicworldreport.com/2016/06/04/why-everyone-should-oppose-surrogacy/
blog.adw.org/2013/06/why-the-church-opposes-surrogate-motherhood-and-attempts-to-legalize-in-the-district-of-columbia/
This summit is over but you can buy a pass to watch all the talks. So much excellent information: www.unexplainedinfertilitysummit.com/post-summit
Naltrexone is really helpful! Need a prescription
This is completely OFF-TOPIC, but I once knew a woman who was about 19-21 years old or so, and right after she had her 1st, newly born infant, she wanted ANOTHER one... and I was like "Don't you think it'd be wise to rest and let your body regain its' strength." Plus, she wasn't exactly "financially stable", so I couldn't imagine how she'd want another kid, especially when her mother was the one taking care of her 1st. I suppose she was REALLY EAGER to have another one, which thankfully I don't wish to understand why that is, for the reasons I stated. XD
Thank you for this video!!!
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Just curious- I understand that IVF is not accepted by the catholic faith, what about Artificial Insemination (IUI)? Thanks!
Lupe E. Great question! I first want to say that everything the Catholic Church teaches or does not accept is for our own good. Because IUI removes conception from the sexual (conjugal) act, it is contrary to Church teaching. I just said a prayer for whomever in your life is enduring infertility
hey! I absolutely love your channel! I had a question tho, what if its the man's fault? Like I know it is so common for men to have low sperm count or slow swimmers who cant make it? Does napro help with that as well?
Congratulations!!
Hi. I'm just wondering how these hormones are sourced to be used for infertility. Is it morally correct to be pumping ourselves with hormones that are not our own. Asking sincerely not trying to play devil's advocate or anything. I am thinking of beginning this journey myself. Thank you 😊
the bio-identical progesterone is made in a lab from wild yam extract
Please someone reply. Ok, IVF is wrong but a child who is born of IVF, how does the church accpet this child??
I mean I was born of IVF and I didn't know that it was not accepted in the church. But since I got to know about it I am having doubts about my existence. Did God not want me to be here? I was an accident? Everyone else was formed in the mother's womb by God himself, but I was deliberately brought into existence. I am struggling with this, I used to go to church frequently earlier, but since I have got to know about this I am having second thoughts on my faith and religion. I feel that God doesn't love me, he didn't create me. This breaks my heart. Pls help me someone.
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I've read there is a thing called seed rotation that should help balance estrogen and progesterone(people use it to get regular periods), I dont know how good it works, but in that eating sunflower and sesame seeds in the second half of your period helps with progesterone.
Can this even work for women that have lost their tubes?
I feel like I'm in the other side of the spectrum, I'm very fertile and scared to get pregnant again I already have 6 kids and 38 years old. My husband does not trust nfp and decided to stick with using condoms tmi I know, i just feel guilty.
Stay true to what you believe is right. Maybe talk with pastor and husband together about it.
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