tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post8403028261697181942..comments2012-02-03T09:33:52.042-05:00natalie holbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13698804808966036834noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-76533189426177764942012-02-03T09:33:52.042-05:002012-02-03T09:33:52.042-05:00I was scrolling through your old links and came across this post. A little over three year later you have little Huck! It makes me happy to know that even though it took a while, you did become pregnant. And amazingly the photo above looks almost exactly like Huck!Natasha and Jessehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454014270247663146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-11907696154145541342012-01-04T18:51:58.405-05:002012-01-04T18:51:58.405-05:00I am so happy that I can read this honest post about a really common struggle with a smile on my face, knowing that it happened for you. My aunts spent 3 and 7 years respectively trying to conceive, and thankfully in both cases they were blessed with children. Actually, they each ended up having another after that! <br /><br />Anyway, I am creeping through your posts because your writing really inspires me. Always, always. Also, if you told me that the baby in the picture was Huck I would have been like, uh, obviously. Who else would it be? It is amazing how we can be blessed!Dreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06701301369612622552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-83533329129042637622011-12-10T03:06:35.990-05:002011-12-10T03:06:35.990-05:00Hi Nat, it&#39;s me Linds. I wrote you an email about puppy woes in the summer. You wrote me back and made my day;) I was reading your posts from years ago and came across this one. I loved it. My how little Huck looks like his mama as a baby. I&#39;m just so glad you got him. Just wanted to share. Love your blog!!Three Men and a Ladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05792283969233745030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-84722769489942888812009-12-08T19:27:57.691-05:002009-12-08T19:27:57.691-05:00Hi~ You do not know me..i stumbled on to your blog and I have been reading it for a bit now. I&#39;ve thought about commenting but just haven&#39;t done it. your blog is wonderful and this one got me. I had to comment. <br />It is possible.<br />hugs to you<br />NicholNicholhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00581179744664337054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-20101780929678298622009-12-08T10:53:55.286-05:002009-12-08T10:53:55.286-05:00This is what worked for me. We tried to get pregnant for 8 months, and at that point, I had decided to stop &quot;trying&quot; and just let live.... how ever, on our last &quot;attempt&quot; after the deed had been done... lol... I just kept very still, i didn&#39;t get up, i didn&#39;t move... i just kept very still, and fell asleep that way... and then a month later... i had a postitive preg test... so maybe that will work for you.Heather McLemorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04409230635872429107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-69631625590027958722009-12-08T02:07:16.038-05:002009-12-08T02:07:16.038-05:00Cripes girl, I just have to say. WELL SAID! You are quite the writer- I do hope you are working on a book (:<br />Seriously, I was captivated. Riveted. <i>downright</i>.... entertained? I hope those are right words. Although... I did get the message. I&#39;m sorry you feel that way right now- but remember everything is in the Lords time instead of ours. It may seem like forever but once those babies come- you&#39;ll be all the more grateful, right? Good luck- and to reiterate: your blog is super duper great.Conniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13682175645848916523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-8823399786130618882009-12-07T13:38:26.040-05:002009-12-07T13:38:26.040-05:00please don&#39;t feel panicky or frustrated around me :) I want for you to have a baby very very much so...i know you&#39;ll be so great at it. I don&#39;t ask you about it much anymore because i get really emotional over these things...but i as sooooo cheering for a Holbrook baby. :) Hugs.Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03226110919751518214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-53994539793172373902009-12-05T20:39:10.557-05:002009-12-05T20:39:10.557-05:00Oh, Nat...I don&#39;t even know what to say. Personally if I were you, I wouldn&#39;t really like me. I got pregnant and it was an absolute accident. I even took the morning after pill the next morning and Lex still made it into this world. <br /><br />I have to say that (and I&#39;m sure you&#39;ve heard) if it doesn&#39;t happen there are other ways of having a child. You are going to make a wonderful mother one day and you know that, and the Holbs will make an amazing father. Just keep your positive attitude and things will happen how they are supposed to happen. God knows what he is doing with you:) You are already a good mother!Chewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14085922323122457623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-70050634632204780022009-12-05T17:54:42.364-05:002009-12-05T17:54:42.364-05:00I wish you the best but as a little hint, if you have been on the pill or the shot etc it does takes a long time for the hormones to leave your system completely, especially if you have been using birth control for a number of years. Be patient and remember that things always happen when you least expect them and that those are always the most wonderful surprises! <br /><br />Best of luck and I hope that you get your little miracle as a wonderful Christmas surprise.Lesson Learnedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355554146563506454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-5353032541303739592009-12-04T01:44:14.675-05:002009-12-04T01:44:14.675-05:00My mother wasn&#39;t able to have children. She had many pregnancies that ended in miscarriage, or had preemies that didn&#39;t survive. Her body literally could not handle having a child. I was adopted at age 7 and I must say, my mom is my mom. If you&#39;re meant to be a mother, you&#39;ll find a way, whether it means to start taking treatments to help in the process of getting pregnant to adoption. I pray it does happen for you one day, but maybe you&#39;re meant to help another get out of a bad situation. If I hadn&#39;t been adopted I KNOW I would be in a much more dangerous situation. My mom helped me and my sister get out of child abuse. So maybe you&#39;re just meant to help another. And believe me, if it does come down to adopting, you&#39;ll love that child as it&#39;s your own, I promise!Andreanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-46562994660085103492009-12-03T17:07:31.695-05:002009-12-03T17:07:31.695-05:00oh dearie. you took my thoughts and feelings and made them into beautiful words. i&#39;m dreading the 16th of this month. that&#39;s our 3.5 year anniversary of tossing the rubbers. i&#39;m sure you&#39;re reading this and hoping and praying you dont end up as far along the infertility road as i am. i know i never thought it would be me. it can be overwhelming thinking about how many YEARS it&#39;s been and the possibility of infertile YEARS to come. all i can do is take it one day at a time. <br />i hope and pray you get a miracle babe soon! <br />if you&#39;re in the mood for some mormon infertility blogs, here&#39;s mine. you can find some more great reads from there. you are not alone!<br />mrsinfertility.blogspot.comjack+allihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12007425779775122064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-42191777704342379802009-12-03T16:47:33.180-05:002009-12-03T16:47:33.180-05:00Oh, and DO let those tears fall when they need to, too! :)Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187059623342181618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-63809209178197583392009-12-03T16:46:20.719-05:002009-12-03T16:46:20.719-05:00DO believe it is possible! DO own those feelings and yearnings! DO let hope carry you! Be happy when you see those bellies and babies and know that your time is coming! When you let go and ride the faith train, you find you don&#39;t actually fall, you soar! Ten years and counting, and I still believe! After three years of aching, I let go and found I had wings to fly! I learned that being a daughter of God an amazing adventure!Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187059623342181618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-71254562960358149362009-12-03T10:56:17.310-05:002009-12-03T10:56:17.310-05:00thanks for your perspective. It helps to know that I am not the only married mormon woman in the world who has not be able to conceive a child to date. My husband and I have been working on this little challenge for about a year now. I don&#39;t really have women to talk to about this: both of my sisters have children, my visitng teacher is pregnant with her third (as are it seems half the mothers of the kids in my nursery class), and it is hard not to get a little tear in my eye during the primary program. It&#39;s like all of these women have a secret they are not willing to share. Oh well. I am determined to figure it out. If you hold on to hope than I will do the same. Until then I have my little chihuahua to keep me company and hulmiliate in little holiday teeshirts. Thanks for your words!Christyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11856552446755392670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-77719962138182261022009-12-03T10:12:02.028-05:002009-12-03T10:12:02.028-05:00Seek first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you.... :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-12456116760682648152009-12-02T23:35:45.555-05:002009-12-02T23:35:45.555-05:00Infertility really really really sucks. <br /><br />Here:<br /><br />Everywhere in nature we are taught the lessons of patience and waiting. We want things a long time before we get them, and the fact that we want them a long time makes them all the more precious when they come.<br />~Joseph F. Smith<br /><br />Be patient.<br /><br />Happy Wednesday.<br /><br /><br />Oh, and, if all else fails... Consider a life altering trip to Ethiopia (hint hint)Betinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13647696608796160913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-82633364542581121632009-12-02T23:20:27.529-05:002009-12-02T23:20:27.529-05:00I believe God puts desires in our hearts for a reason and that in His timing, he will fulfill them in the way that will bring Him glory. My cousin was married at 21 and tried for over a decade to get pregnant - at one point, they told her she had endometriosis (sp?) and would never have babies, but guess what? God did an absolute miracle and not only was she healed of that, but she now has a beautiful baby girl!!! I cried the day she told us - it renewed my faith in God all over again. She has so quickly forgotten the pain of those years spent waiting &amp; is absolutely thrilled to finally be a mom. I&#39;m impressed with your vulnerability and decision to be real about your desire for motherhood - that takes courage. This post was so inspiring and easy to relate to - because we&#39;ve all been there - maybe not with babies, but with some kind of longing that has yet to be fulfilled. Thanks for posting this:)Buttercuphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14360971822644848978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-18821085270879828612009-12-02T22:55:50.174-05:002009-12-02T22:55:50.174-05:00*HUGS*<br /><br />No words of wisdom or wit. <br /><br />Just *HUGS*carmar76http://www.blogger.com/profile/08748959131382797114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-77831761025251716592009-12-02T22:36:01.649-05:002009-12-02T22:36:01.649-05:00I&#39;m trying to think of a way to not be hurtful about this, because that&#39;s not what I want. I really enjoy reading your blog, and you seem like a wonderful person. But please don&#39;t get your hopes up. Despite what everyone else has said, it&#39;s just not true that &quot;positive vibes&quot; can make a person pregnant. You can&#39;t just wish yourself into having a baby. It is God&#39;s decision, and His alone. And it may be his decision for you not to have children. I know you feel like you were meant to be a mother, but many people feel like they were meant to be one thing or another, but it&#39;s not what God wants. You have to able to accept His will, whatever it is. You have to be able to surrender your own plans and desires for His will. Matthew 10:37-39 says, &quot;Whoever loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever does not lay down his life and follow me is not worthy of me. For whoever finds his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.&quot; You have to sacrifice your own wants and desires for God&#39;s will. Your body was not meant solely to have children--it was meant to serve God, and there are many ways to do that without having children.<br /><br />With that being said, I sincerely hope you have children because it&#39;s an amazing blessing. I just hope you can get to a point in your life when you are willing to accept God&#39;s will whatever it is, children or not, and to know that being a child of God is immeasurably better than anything earthly thing.Ashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-69224890861444602032009-12-02T22:03:37.133-05:002009-12-02T22:03:37.133-05:00I saw myself in what you wrote here and got it... In a not to be too dramatic but complete shift in who I am being way, hit me in the guts, tears to my eyes, GOT IT. Thanks. <br /><br />Here&#39;s to a new year of baby news for you &amp; me.Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10297932355360477833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-49719705237743792252009-12-02T21:38:18.502-05:002009-12-02T21:38:18.502-05:00You say it so well. We&#39;ve been trying for THIRTY months. And what diagnosis have I been given? I have PCOS. There is no cure, there is managing. I&#39;m not infertile, but I&#39;m not ovulating, see, which is quite the problem, see. Combine that with a possibly low (there remains to be a re-testing of the testes) count of the swimmers, and our chances are probably like one in a million. But to me it feels like one in a gazillion. I know what you&#39;re going through, is what I&#39;m trying to say. As I said it a couple years ago and I&#39;ll probably say it again this year: Merry-barren-Christmas.Chelseahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14203596033617838623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-91635374640640978862009-12-02T21:08:34.679-05:002009-12-02T21:08:34.679-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10879195380802414664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-1742437155545881062009-12-02T19:01:14.548-05:002009-12-02T19:01:14.548-05:00You may feel completely alone, but you are not.Kortneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10342622285524980754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-4147312639539565432009-12-02T18:04:19.852-05:002009-12-02T18:04:19.852-05:00You have the heart of a lion. The strength of 1000 soldiers and the prayers of 1063 friends backing you up on this one. It is possible! It will happen and your dreams will be a reality. Just believe.... Let yourself believe. Another great read my dear. Thank you for not being afraid to show us your weakness while finding your strength.Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04805406008862938772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487616434221255778.post-90815894872094249592009-12-02T17:18:20.100-05:002009-12-02T17:18:20.100-05:00Your mom was gorgeous. How uncanny to see a side profile of her and you next to each other. You two look so much alike. (I hope that is a good thing!)B-sterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17922114035235353036noreply@blogger.com