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Six Years of Hope, Love, Sacrifices, and Prayers for Our Miracle Baby ❤️🙏🏽👣

Six Years of Hope, Love, Sacrifices, and Prayers for Our Miracle Baby ❤️🙏🏽👣

Organized by Shalana Coates. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States.

After six years of hope, prayers, and sacrifices, help my husband and me afford fertility treatment and pursue our dream of having a baby together. ❤️

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of $20,000

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Plus a $25 founding gift from Gift of Parenthood, released once $100 comes in from 2 supporters.

The journey

0 of 5 steps funded
  1. Consul­ta­tion & testing

    Current step.
  2. Medi­ca­tions

    Upcoming.
  3. Egg retrie­val & lab

    Upcoming.
  4. Embryo testing & free­zing

    Upcoming.
  5. Transfer

    Upcoming.

Right now · Consultation & testing

$1,000 covers this step

Their story

What if the one thing your heart desires most is the one thing you cannot afford to keep fighting for? For six years, my husband and I have been holding on to a dream that means more to us than words can explain the dream of having a baby together. My husband does not have any biological children of his own, but that has never stopped him from being a wonderful, loving, supportive, and dedicated stepfather to my children from my previous marriage. He has stood beside me, helping raise my children from their young kids, teenage years into the beautiful young women they are becoming today. He has supported them through life’s challenges, celebrated their accomplishments, and helped provide for their futures. Watching my husband love and care for my children has made me dream even more deeply about the day we might welcome a baby together. ❤️ For six years, we have visited expensive fertility doctors, attended appointments, and spent money hoping to find answers. But it seemed like every appointment brought another expense. Another test. Another consultation. Another bill. More money. More waiting. More uncertainty. Meanwhile, within three years, two of my daughters reached major graduation milestones, and we were helping pay for their college education. We were very excited, happy, and proud to support them, but it meant making sacrifices. We had to put our dream of having a baby together on hold. Not because we stopped wanting a baby, but because we simply could not afford to keep going. 💔 We chose to support the children depending on us while quietly holding on to the dream of welcoming another child into our family. Now, we are ready to explore restarting our fertility journey through IUI or IVF, depending on what our doctors recommend. But we cannot afford the full cost of treatment on our own. That’s why we’re humbly asking for your support. ❤️ How Your Donations Will Help Us Every dollar donated will go toward helping us pursue fertility treatment and the medical care needed to give us another opportunity to conceive. Your generous contributions will help cover: * Fertility specialist appointments: Consultations, medical evaluations, and developing a treatment plan. * Fertility testing: Bloodwork, ultrasounds, hormone testing, and other examinations recommended by our doctors. * IUI or IVF treatment: The procedures our fertility specialists determine are appropriate for us. * Fertility medications: Prescribed medications, injections, and other treatments needed during the process. * Egg retrieval and embryo transfer: If IVF is recommended, funds may help cover these procedures and associated laboratory costs. * Additional medical expenses: Follow-up appointments, monitoring, and other fertility-related costs that insurance may not cover. We will use donations responsibly toward our fertility journey and share updates as we learn more about our treatment plan and actual expenses. Your donation is not just helping pay a medical bill. You are helping us pursue a dream we have carried in our hearts for six years. ❤️ Whether you donate $5, $10, $20, $50, or any amount your heart allows, every contribution brings us closer to being able to afford the next step. We understand that fertility treatment does not guarantee pregnancy, but financial hardship has already forced us to pause our journey once. We are hoping that, with your support, we can try again. 🙏🏽 From Our Hearts to Yours My husband has spent years showing my children what it means to have a loving and supportive father figure. I would love nothing more than to see him experience the joy of welcoming a biological child while we grow our family together. I dream of the day we receive a positive pregnancy test, hear our baby’s heartbeat, and finally hold our little miracle in our arms. Six years of waiting. Six years of prayers. Six years of holding on to hope. Our dream has been delayed, but it has never been forgotten. If you cannot donate, please consider sharing our fundraiser with your family and friends. Your prayers, encouragement, and kindness mean more than you know. Thank you for reading our story, believing in our dream, and helping us pursue another chance at parenthood. We are not asking anyone to promise us a miracle. We are simply asking for help making it possible to try again. ❤️👶🏽🙏🏽 With love, faith, hope, and gratitude, A husband and wife praying for their miracle baby. ❤️ Please donate, share, and help us take the next step toward our dream. Our journey so far What your support covers What this would mean to us

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