'There is both so much sadness and so much joy all wrapped up into adoption.'
"We had no idea the journey we had ahead of us! I found out I had
, or low egg count," Jennifer told POPSUGAR."Throughout the year to follow, in addition to seeing a few different fertility doctors and trying various fertility drugs and treatments, I also tried everything else under the sun to get pregnant."to increase her odds of conception.
As a TV producer, keeping up with her appointments as well as a"litany of treatments" was extremely difficult. And not being able to"I didn't feel like I could share my infertility with coworkers because I felt so much shame and fear and it seemed like I was the only one going through it," she explained."But my job was the only thing that seemed to be able to take my mind off my empty ovaries, so I focused on work and neglected everything else in my personal life.
"I realized that what I had been longing for was to become a mom, not necessarily to become pregnant."Jennifer's struggle to get pregnant led to a lot of introspection, and she slowly learned to let go of the things in the universe she couldn't control."Infertility proved to be an opportunity for me to learn about my fears, perfectionism, and urge to control," she said."I worked a lot on letting go of the outcome and surrendering to what was meant for us.
, it wasn't a decision to make lightly. Rather than go down that road, Jennifer floated the idea of adoption by her husband.
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