Encouragement for Couples Facing Infertility
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Infertility can be such a painful, isolating experience. John and Danny offer advice to couples who long for children.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast. You can find more helpful advice at |
| 0:06.8 | Focus on the Family.com. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A recent study found that more than one in ten couples in the US will struggle with |
| 0:15.9 | infertility and that's a lonely experience. It's invisible. No one knows you're |
| 0:21.4 | struggling with it except for maybe a few people that you've brought into your inner circle. |
| 0:26.0 | So in that way, infertility can be a heartbreaking experience. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm John Fuller joined by Dr. Danny Huerta who leads our parenting and youth department here at Focus on the Family and |
| 0:37.0 | we're going to kick off this episode by hearing a part of a conversation that Jim Daly and I had with author Terry Lynn Underwood who described a time |
| 0:45.7 | when she and her husband struggled with infertility. |
| 0:49.2 | It's helpful for us to understand you and Scott getting married a couple years into your marriage |
| 0:54.6 | deciding like we do is let's time now to have children and then it wasn't that easy right |
| 1:01.2 | you thought it would probably be pretty easy like most couples |
| 1:03.5 | what what happened because I think that sheds greater light on having Cassidy and then we'll |
| 1:08.4 | talk about that was it right Cassidy's your own child so just speak to that for a moment. Well you know like all people we |
| 1:16.2 | just we are both firstborn so we were totally in control right? I mean it's a happy thing. |
| 1:21.6 | We decided this is what we're ready now we are ready for children |
| 1:24.8 | Scott was doing student ministry at the time and we had seen all that student |
| 1:28.8 | ministry entails and we thought we can do this and so we decided we were ready and we may have been |
| 1:36.6 | ready but the Lord was not ready for us to yet be parents we still had things I |
| 1:40.6 | think that he wanted to teach us. And also I think you know God can see ahead of us and he knew what the road had and he knew there were lessons we were going to need to learn. |
| 1:54.0 | Well, you went through different phases, I guess, I would describe it in reading your book. |
| 1:59.6 | I mean, you mentioned, you know, that going to the doctors and looking at infertility issues and all that kind of thing so you're |
| 2:06.1 | It was all very looking at the calendar and all that stuff and it put a lot of pressure on you |
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