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Hope Pieced Together

Hope Pieced Together is a show that gets real about mental health struggles and how to overcome them. You will hear personal stories, practical tools, and professional insight for the journey toward mental well-being. Whether you listen for you, a loved one, or for how to help in your community, it will be evident that hope is definitely alive! Each month, the host, Sherry Burkhard, RN, includes parts of her own professional and personal story, as well as insight gained at the non-profit organization, Mosaics of Mercy.

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Story of Hope: Meet Brooke Martin

May 17, 2023 • Mosaics of Mercy • Episode 67

Today’s story of hope encourages us to be content and faithful as we wait on God because his timing is perfect! In this episode, we welcome to the Hope Pieced Together podcast, Brooke Martin. She is a wife of 35 years and mother to five Snowflake babies and shares with us her truly amazing story of hope. Brook talks about her journey with infertility and IVF and what it was like navigating through several adjacent processes including what to do with leftover embryos and what happens to those embryos if they are donated. Her story brings about many beautiful moments and feelings of hope. Brooke feels that by leaving the door ajar to whoever is listening, she may find her way to more of her donated and adopted embryos. To hear more about this inspiring story of hope, tune in now!

Key Points From This Episode:

Brooke shares about her infertility and IVF journey.
A message to those facing infertility.
She shares what it was like having twins after 13 years of marriage.
Brooke talks about what it was like navigating through the process of what to do with their leftover embryos.
Her thoughts behind the decision they came to about their embryos.
What happens to embryos that are donated and how her belief system plays a role.
How her cousin’s family tree and ancestry hobbies lead to discovering what [exactly] happened to her frozen embryos.
She shares what she thought and felt when she found out about the triplets.
Brooke talks about navigating the correspondence with the parents of the frozen embryos.
The relationships that have flourished since meeting the triplets.
What Brooke wants listeners to know about the hope in her story.
What it was like to have media coverage about their story.
Why you should wait on God and his timing because it is perfect!
How sharing her story is often therapeutic to her.
Brooke shares some educational aspects of IVF and Snowflake embryo adoption.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Brooke Martin on Facebook

Brooke Martin on Instagram

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