Campaign Story

So, I see you stumbled across our page! Well while you’re here, if you are family or friends, you know this story or you may even learn something new about us today! But to all of our new friends, allow us to introduce ourselves! My name is Jocelyn and my husband’s name is JaMarhi. Our story began 12 years ago when we were just simply two kids attending church with our families. Week after week, we quickly became friends, which blossomed into a relationship. God placed us into each other’s arms and we fell in love.

As the years went on, we were experiencing all the typical life events together! School dances, high school and college graduations, sharing a home, engaged on a Christmas Day (sounds like a hallmark movie already lol), and married a year later! We knew early on that this was a forever thing and we were checking these life events right off the list! The next life event we decided on was a family.

As the fertility community would say, we started “TTCing” (trying to conceive) just 2 months after we got married with high hopes of starting a family fairly quickly. All of our lives we thought, the birds.. the bees… BOOM! You have a baby! To our dismay, that’s not always the case and this was the start of our journey! After multiple appointments, lots of probes in uncomfy spots, an awkward appointment for hubs (if you know you know lol), plus don’t get me started on how many pints of blood they needed from us and hundreds of negative pregnancy tests, we knew we needed help. We sought out a specialist that ultimately put a halt on our next life event and broke us. “You will never be able to have a baby naturally”. Those exact words have been burned into my mind. I lost hope. I lost myself. But we knew this wasn’t the end of our story, we knew that God was going to honor our wishes and prayers. So, we began treatments that included burning shots, pills, of course, more blood tests and more appointments. I was tired. I was sick. We even were convinced that we weren’t going to be parents. So we gave up. In Jeremiah 29:11, it says “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope”. That’s exactly what he gave us, hope.

One night, as I was crying out, I asked the Lord to show me a sign that I was even able to get pregnant and boy did he provide! A few weeks later, we found out we were pregnant. Naturally. YUP, you read that right, NATURALLY! We were overjoyed! God had done it for us! But, our miracle was short-lived. After 2 blissful weeks, our baby had no heartbeat. I was almost 7 weeks pregnant, we had just announced to our close friends and family and were prepared to announce to the world when we found ourselves broken once again. It has been 4 years since our loss, it hasn’t been easy, but we’ve learned to cope. But it’s extremely hard when you constantly hear “Well why don’t you just adopt” or “It’ll happen when the time is right” but, wait this is my favorite “I’ll just carry it for you”. Anyways, this loss and the constant reminder that our baby had left us fueled us to feel hopeful and want to continue to try for the family we always prayed for.

We’re doing IVF! In Vitro Fertilization. Yes, more treatments, but we feel very hopeful for this next step. We have spent years researching and consulting and we have decided to continue with a clinic located in Colorado! We found that this clinic has the most inexpensive rates in the U.S. and if you know me, I’ll always find a good deal! Lol. We always wanted children. But the emotional, mental and physical stress of IVF is very hard. The financial stress of IVF treatment is even more so. But the desire to have children overcomes all the pain and difficulties. Unfortunately, NONE of our fertility treatments are covered by our health insurance.

After a lot of thought, we are finally asking for help to give it a shot and hopefully be able to start our family. Any donations will be greatly appreciated, even if it’s just a dollar! This money will go towards treatment, medicine and travel expenses! If you can, please help share our story and pray for us during this time, it will be appreciated as well.

Thank you for taking the time to read our story! If you would like to follow us along on our journey, follow us on Instagram @herecomesarainbow.