Shimmy & Hadassah Manela: What No One Tells You About Struggling to Have Kids for 9 Years

Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer

Living Lchaim

Judaism, Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 992 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Meet Shimmy & Hadassah Manela. Married since 2015, they’ve been waiting for their baby while navigating a journey filled with heartbreak, hope, and resilience. Despite their personal struggles, they’ve dedicated themselves to helping others through the wildly successful Bonei Olam Florida chapter. In this deeply honest and heartfelt conversation, they open up about why they chose to share their story publicly, how they’ve built a support system for others, and what gives them the strength to keep going. Thanks to their efforts, 71 babies who might not have been here are now part of this world.

It’s a powerful discussion about marriage, infertility, and finding purpose through life’s hardest challenges—filled with inspiration, vulnerability, and hope.

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0:00.0	We went right through, jumped right into the journey of infertility, right?
0:05.0	We, from A, like, newly married, like, all excited and then into, like, getting into the whole crux of infertility, which is a crazy, crazy journey.
0:14.0	And she calls off, she's like, hi, is this so-and-so?
0:17.0	And I'm like, yeah.
0:18.0	It's like, I just want to announce that it was a successful transfer and you have a baby now, right?
0:23.6	Well, you know, good luck.
0:25.6	And then like we want to see you in a couple of days.
0:27.6	Come in, we want to start monitoring.
0:29.6	Again, yeah, so it was like it was a crazy wave of emotion.
0:33.6	I guess a couple hours later she was on the couch, like said she may I still haven't felt the baby moved like she started drinking something grape juice and still
0:40.0	haven't felt anything so then we called we called I think called a cello we called 9-1-1
0:44.3	and we just like we just rushed to the hospital to the ER and everything after
0:48.9	that was literally like a blur started trying again and it just kept failing. So we did give up a lot.
0:55.7	Yeah.
0:56.0	We totally gave up.
0:57.0	There were points where we looked at each other.
0:58.6	I think after our third IVF procedure, that didn't work.
1:02.0	And we just said, forget it.
1:03.4	I'm done.
1:03.9	I'm not being a baby-making machine anymore.
1:06.1	This episode is deeply personal to me.
1:08.8	In August 2015, one of my best friends, Shemmy
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