‘I Didn’t Expect To Wait For 9 Years Before Having A Baby’ -Ify’s Kitchen Shares Her Struggle With Infertility

“My husband and I planned to just chill for the first year and not try for kids but by the second year we were like, ‘Wait a minute, isn’t it supposed to be very easy?'”

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She recalled how, over time, their worry intensified and the wait took a toll on her mental and emotional health; she even believed that God hated her. Ify added:

“It was very difficult, second-year people were like it’d happen but by the third year, I didn’t know what was happening. It was really really hard and then you’d see people talking about women giving birth after 20 years.”

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She concluded,

“I remember seeing a comment somewhere that read, ‘Those of you who give birth easily don’t know what God has done for you, God loves you.’ I was like, ‘God really hates me,’ and it wasn’t directed at me, I wept at work that day and asked God what I had done and why he doesn’t love me.”

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