This Couple's Emotional Pregnancy Announcement Shares a Powerful Message About Infertility
After waiting, and waiting, and waiting for years to become pregnant, this couple announced their happy news with one incredibly powerful photograph.
Garyt and Lauren Walker tried to conceive for nearly three years before they became pregnant with not one, but two babies. After experiencing fertility problems, the Walkers wanted to share what their journey had really been like with a pregnancy announcement that features two onesies surrounded by hundreds of needles and medicine bottles.
"Taking out these needles by the handful to take this photograph was surreal," Lauren wrote on Facebook. "There was a lot of pain, hope, and fear behind each of these needles. Each one represents a different day, a different path, a different emotion."
Lauren's post details the trials she and her husband faced together in the last three years. "There were many setbacks and road blocks put in our path: unresponsive trigger attempts, rescued egg retrieval, uterine septums, hyper-stimulations, drug immunities, clotting issues, etc.," Lauren wrote."The way our doctor put it is 'yes these things are rare, but not unheard of. What's rare is having it all happen to the same person.'"
Though the setbacks were discouraging, Lauren had faith and knew the challenges were preparing her for something wonderful. "After a good cry, the more I looked at it, the more the needles started to blur together," she wrote. "Now all I see are these tiny onesies that so perfectly sum up our journey: worth the wait, and wait, and wait, and wait." Now, Lauren is focusing on her babies, one boy and one girl, due in August 2017.
The couple's emotional tribute and announcement has been met with tons of praise. There are hundreds of comments congratulating the parents-to-be, and several messages from parents sharing their own experiences with in vitro fertilization.
"I knew all these trials were grooming me to be a mother of something mighty and fierce-twins, no doubt," Lauren wrote. "I knew deep in my bones that light was at the end of this darkness. Even though there were days filled with doubt. We just had to keep the faith."
(h/t The Huffington Post)
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