Author's Note: I am privileged to have been invited by Hannah's Prayer Ministry (website: "Held") to write an article for their 2011 Father's Day feature. Thank you for dropping by their website and reading "A Father's Void & The Father's Peace." If you have struggled with infertility too, please consider joining the "Held" website as a frequent reader. You will be encouraged by their message!
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“Dave, come quickly, by the time you arrive at the hospital, your wife will be in emergency surgery!"
What? Not exactly the opener to a phone conversation with our doctor and family friend, Dr. Chris, that I would ever have expected. He went on to explain briefly about my wife, Teresa’s medical emergency.
My wife and I had barely been married two years by this time, and while we had been hoping to build a family, we had already experienced the heartache of three miscarriages in their first trimesters. The second and the third losses were just as traumatic to our hearts and dreams as the first loss.
Now, my wife was pregnant a fourth time and had seemingly been progressing well...
[To read the full article, please click here to open Hannah's Prayer Ministry website, "Held"]
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