Dear Friend,
I don’t like to talk about it, but it’s the only way.
I hate saying the word, but I need your help.
It’s a painful word, and here it is: Infertility.
On the outside, my husband and I look like any other young couple. (I always assumed that infertility was only a challenge for older people. Now I know better. )
It’s impossible for even our closest friends and family members to understand every excruciating detail and the constant struggle that has taken over our lives. All I want is to hold a baby, our baby, in my arms.
I’ve dreamed of being a mother forever. And, on good days, I can close my eyes and picture a sweet, precious newborn in our future.
On dark days, the whole process feels like it’s beating me down and I can’t go on. It’s an endless cycle of invasive, uncomfortable treatments, a mountain of confusing paperwork, a maze of different labs and medical offices.
I come home and cry in the shower, so my husband doesn’t see my tears.
There’s one and only one constant support that we can both lean on when we are too discouraged, too drained, find any spark of hope: Bonei Olam.
As soon as we contacted them, they assigned us a point person to focus just on us. Whenever I get shaky and down, I know there’s someone working tirelessly on our behalf. How can I describe the comfort of talking to someone who knows?
She knows which lab for which procedure, which doctor has the highest success rate for our specific needs, and most of all, she’s seen so many couples reach the finish line with a healthy little baby!
There’s only one thing we need right now. Your help. Whatever we have to do to become a family costs vast amounts of money. Money for the doctors, for the medications, for the lab work, for every single thing that brings me closer to becoming a mother… to holding my baby.
Every dollar from a caring person like you feels like a hug. Like a good friend reaching out and encouraging us to continue.
And we need all the hugs we can get. The ten dollar hug and the hundred dollar hug. Every bit of it means the world to a couple like us.
Please send whatever you can to Bonei Olam, so they can help us bring a baby into this world, and into our home.
Thank you so much!
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I, too, suffer from infertility. It is so difficult, especially for a frum person who has been taught from early on that family is paramount. We’ve been taught that raising our children to be servants of Hashem is our Raison d’etre, and when we suffer from infertility, it brings up the most basic and fundamental questions concerning our mission in the world. What indelable mark are we leaving in the world?
B”H Bonei Olam and ATIME gave us the financial support during IVF-ICSI! They were amazing and b”H we have one daughter, who is now 16 years old.
Wow so sad please whoever can donate money to this couple
We too were in your position and live outside of the USA. We struggled for 4 years and had countless treatments and in the end BH not due to treatment but the Rebbe brochos we were blessed with a son. Soon after we were blessed with a daughter and 5 years after another son. All naturally. I understand what you are going through and know what you are saying. Keep the faith the Aibishter will bless you.