Fertility Articles

Women tend to do things with their whole heart. We tend not to merely dip our toes in the water. It’s common to be ‘all or nothing’. We either do a thing and pursue it with a strength of conviction that will carry us through dark stormy days. Or we don’t. Unfortunately for our health we tend not to spend a lot of time on how we can support our bodies; these temples of the Holy Spirit that the Lord has entrusted to our care. As a result we are depriving the Church of our ability to live out our mission, something the Church desperately needs.

Popular questions regarding children include, “how many children do you want?” Or “Do you plan on waiting to have kids?” Or “Do you want kids?

This manner of thinking subconsciously programs us into the faulty belief that we are entitled to children. We are entitled to the parenthood journey we desire. We get to pick and choose what we want and when we want, as if we were grocery shopping.

Women need to know and truly believe that God didn’t forget, mess up, or create a faulty system for childbirth within our bodies. When we are trusting what our body is doing in creating, birthing, and nurturing our child, we are therefore trusting in God because it is He who created us.

If you decided to make health a priority this year, make sure you get familiar with your cycle.