S6 05: Adopting the Orphans of IVF with Kelsey Dame
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
When Kelsey and Frankie Dame couldn't conceive naturally, they were offered IVF as the obvious solution. But as believers, they didn't want to assume that they should pursue IVF just because they could. Instead, they asked, "What does the Christian worldview say about this?" Their journey through infertility is thought-provoking and redemptive. It helps us think well about navigating conversations about IVF in a culture where our ethics haven't caught up to our technology.
Show Notes
Nightlight Christian adoptions
National Embryonic Donation Center in Tennessee
Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion by Abigail Favale
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Strong Women podcast. I'm so glad that you're here with us this week. I want to tell you about my guest today. I first heard about Kelsey Dame when her husband Frankie rode into the Colson Center to share with us how much breakpoint had impacted their marriage and their family. When they were newlyweds, they found out quickly that they were not |
| 0:21.4 | able to have children of their own, and they were encouraged to pursue the in vitro fertilization |
| 0:27.7 | route. Well, I want you to hear their whole story. I want you to hear the thought process |
| 0:32.7 | they went through, how they struggled through this decision, and what is the outcome of their choice, of their |
| 0:38.7 | decision, and of their path now. You're going to love hearing from Kelsey. So here's my conversation |
| 0:46.5 | with Kelsey Dane. Kelsey, thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 0:55.9 | Yes, thank you, Sarah, for having me. |
| 1:01.1 | I know that you and Frankie both came from pretty big families, but how big are we talking? |
| 1:02.0 | We did. |
| 1:04.1 | So I am one of five kids. |
| 1:04.9 | I have four siblings. |
| 1:07.5 | Frankie is one of eight children. |
| 1:09.2 | He has seven younger sisters. |
| 1:12.0 | So that sets you up for great success, |
| 1:17.1 | doesn't it? Oh, absolutely. He knows women. Yeah, he's been trained. He's been trained well. |
| 1:23.6 | Did you guys both want big families? Yeah, absolutely. Coming from a big family, both of us, I think we had this dream that we would have big families and we still hope to have big |
| 1:28.9 | family. Yeah. I want to jump right into your story because early in your marriage, you guys find |
| 1:34.9 | out that you can't have children. Tell me about how that happened. Yes, that's true. So when we |
| 1:40.9 | first got married, we had this dream of having a big family. |
| 1:44.8 | We were trying to figure out when did that start? |
| 1:48.0 | What was that going to look like? |
| 1:50.1 | And as we started to try to have kids, every month would come by and we just weren't finding out that we were having a baby. |
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