The Patience Room

When the bible talks about guarding your heart with all diligence (Prov 4:23), i never really took it seriously until i started TTC. Now those who are familiar with this know we go through all kinds of emotions when friends/ close relations birth their kids, some are already pregnant before the wedding and you are 4 years or more down the line after marriage, you hear someone gets rid of a pregnancy she does not want. Yea, you know that feeling right. Lol Today, I want to draw some examples from the bible to show we need to keep our emotions in check while we wait. Reason being i got so worried one day and was really thinking about a whole lot of negative things and God reminded me of Matt.6:25 so whenever i go south i try to remember that scripture. Firstly, we would look at Sarah and Abraham in Gen.16. Sarah decided her husband should bed her maid. Sarah was desperate and did not think through (MPOV). I guess she must have been thinking who would inherit all they had worked for.

Infertility has been define as the inability to conceive as a couple after regular unprotected sex or the inability to biologically contribute to the art/ science of conception. The World Health Organisation statistics says that about 15% of women worldwide suffer from infertility but i want to believe they are more than that. In Africa and particularly Nigeria where i come from, nobody really likes to speak about it. Individuals who go through infertility only come to speak about it when they have overcome the challenges of infertility. The subject of adoption, fertility treatment, Artificial Reproductive technology are all done hush hush. it is considered a shame for 2 people to get married and overtime not have kid.Friends, extended relations,family and neighbors who have no business in your struggles butt in. Most times they have no good advice or contributions to offer. They just keep tabs with questions like ' You belle still flat', 'you still dey do sisi', '