Giant Strawberry Cinnamon Roll Cake

Sometimes you want a showstopper breakfast. This Giant Strawberry Cinnamon Roll Cake is that recipe!

Before we talk about the recipe, let’s talk about something serious. #Youshouldbeusedtothatbynow

This week, April 19-26, 2015, is National Infertility Awareness Week (NIAW). Many of you may have read my infertility story (and thank you for reading!) but I wanted to bring to light NIAW because infertility is still a topic that is close to my heart. You see, infertility never goes away. It’s always there with you, lurking behind the scenes.

We are so lucky to have been blessed with our daughter, just over 10 years ago. But just because we had a happy ending doesn’t mean it’s not still there, close by. I think about our story and our choices often. Every time IVF makes the news, I think about it. Every time a friend gets pregnant, my infertility is there, waiting to remind me of it’s existence.

I think that many people who go through the infertility process make peace with their choices. We have made peace with our choice to only have one child. But that doesn’t mean I don’t think about the babies I won’t have. I think about them often.

Whenever someone asks me where the rest of my kids are, I am reminded.

Whenever I look at Jordan and think about the fact that, when we get old, she’ll be taking care of us alone without sibling support, I think about them.

Whenever my daughter speaks out loud what she’s thinking inside and says, her voice full of longing, “I wish I had a sister,” I think about the sister I didn’t give her and my heart breaks a little.

Infertility is like a wound: it scabs over but it never heals, not completely.

When I began my journey 12 years ago, I was young. I was living in a completely new state at the time and none of the women I knew were married, let alone having babies. When we realized there would be problems with conceiving, I felt like I was all alone. No one else knew what I was going through. No one else cringed every single time a friend ended up pregnant or someone asked “when are you going to have kids already???!!!”

But I wasn’t alone. That’s the dirty little secret of the journey of infertility. You’re not alone: 1 in 8 women will experience some form of infertility. Look around you. You probably know more than 8 women. How many of them have suffered along this road? Many of them in suffer in silence for fear of the dumb things people say or because they’re private people, or because they think no one understands.

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