Ep 44 - Adoption Doesn't Heal Infertility with Jesse and Doug Brown of Uniquely Knitted
Adoption doesn't heal infertility. They are in fact a separate series of painful and beautiful, difficult and emotional moments that 1 in 8 couples have to work through as the plan for a family.
After Jesse and Doug were married, they immediately began to make plans for having the large family they had always wanted. But after five years of trying to conceive, they discovered that they each have serious infertility issues. Going through a variety of infertility treatments over several years, it became obvious, they were not going to be able to conceive a child.
For Jesse and Doug, their story of infertily led them to the journey of adoption. What they did not anticipate was the moments of trauma caused by infertilty still came through as they navigated through the adoption process.
We begin hearing their story in this first part of their interview.
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Jesse and Doug are the founders of Uniquely Knitted - an organization dedicated to healing the traumas of infertility and ending the isolation associated with struggling to grow your family.
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