Episode 98: Life with Infertility: Considering the Jump into Foster Care
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
I don't know what it's like to struggle with infertility, and it may or may not intersect with your story, but here's what I do know, the emotional, physical and spiritual pain that comes with infertility is worthy of our conversation. We have to go there. We have to talk about it, because it's a reality for so many foster and adoptive parents or those considering it. We have to be givers of grace to each other, willing to sit with each other in the pain without trying to solve the problem. It could be easy for those of us who are passionate about foster care to jump to a fix of "you should become a foster parent" for our friends struggling with infertility, but that may or may not be their best option. So, hear me in this—that’s not our intent. Today, we're diving into Caroline's story of infertility simply to open the conversation of how to determine if that is the right next step for you and how we can compassionately walk with our friends through infertility.
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| 0:00.0 | Meeting you right where you are on your foster care journey, this is The Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:09.9 | Probably around the age of 21, maybe, 22. |
| 0:13.5 | I was sitting at my desk one day at work. |
| 0:15.4 | I had a part-time job when I was in school, and it just hit me like a ton of bricks, |
| 0:20.4 | and I started bawlingling and I called my parents |
| 0:22.5 | and they rushed over there and I got in their car and they said we've been waiting for this |
| 0:28.0 | moment for 10 years. |
| 0:32.5 | Hey, it's Jamie Cave. Welcome back to the Forgotten Podcast. If you are part of the foster care community, |
| 0:39.2 | passionate about serving or simply interested in learning more, we are here for you. On today's show, |
| 0:46.5 | we are learning about infertility with my guest, Caroline Bailey. I don't know personally what it's |
| 0:52.7 | like to walk this journey, or if it's part of your story, |
| 0:56.1 | but here's what I do know. |
| 0:58.0 | The emotional, physical, and spiritual pain that comes with infertility is absolutely |
| 1:04.1 | worthy of our conversation. |
| 1:06.5 | We don't want to shy away from difficult or uncomfortable conversations like this because we are |
| 1:12.0 | in this together and we need to be here for each other, not to give answers or to fix, quote, |
| 1:19.6 | fix the problem with you should become a foster parent or you should adapt. No, instead we need to be |
| 1:26.9 | present and listen. |
| 1:29.1 | Please hear me. |
| 1:30.5 | Our intent here is not to say you should become a foster parent. |
| 1:34.9 | Our intent with this conversation is to shed light on a subject that is known deeply by many people both in and out of our foster care community, to help us love one |
| 1:46.7 | another more fully, and to open the conversation of how to determine if foster parenting is the |
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