When I was growing up, people would ask me what I wanted to be, and I told them, ?I want to be a mom.? I?ve been an aunt since I was ten years old. I?ve always been around babies?it?s always something I?ve loved.
I met my husband when we were sophomores in high school and we were friends, and then we started dating when we were 17. When I went off to college, I still hadn?t had a menstrual cycle yet. I was an athlete, and so I just brushed it off. Then when we were doing our physicals my incoming year of college, the team doctor asked when my last cycle had been. I was like, ?Oh, well, I haven?t had one yet, but it?s not a big deal,? and he told me we would figure it out.
So after a year and a half of all these tests, they basically came to the conclusion that I have premature ovarian failure. It just means that my ovaries don?t work like they?re supposed to. I remember Tyler picking me up and I was crying in the car telling him. He said, ?Well, this doesn?t change anything for us.? We had already had a prior conversation that adoption was something that was in our hearts to do. Then I remember telling my sisters what the doctor had said, and my older sister, Bailey, said, ?One of us will carry for you. You?re going to get your family.? At the time I thought it was cool but in the back of my head I was thinking that I didn?t want to ask anyone to do that for us.
Courtesy of Emily and Tyler
Tyler and I got engaged. We knew we were going to get married and have a family...