My name is Shawn and my wifes name is Erin and we were married March 15th, 1997. This is our story of a struggle to have a child and what we are doing to overcome the struggle to make our dream come true.
While our marrige has been wonderful and God has given us each other, there has always been something missing. This something is a child of our own to love and to care for. Even prior to our being married my wife and I had discussed and dreamed of having a child of our own. Early on we even bought baby name books and had picked out what we liked best after going through the books several times reading every name out loud so we could see how it would sound with our last name. We tried to have a child for the first year we were married. We then seeked medical help. It turns out that my wife can’t get pregnant naturally. The only way she could get pregnant was by the aid of invetro surgery. This procedure cost $20,000 per try with no gurantee of success. My wife was in college and I was are sole support. We had a mortgage, two car loans and other bills to pay. There was no way I could earn enough money for us to have a child at that time and we thought it would be...