Trying to Conceive

The longing for children shaped the lives of our matriarchs, and it continues to bring joy and sorrow to the lives of many people today. Medical advances have helped with infertility. However, those undergoing treatment often suffer during the process and crave a spiritual element to counterbalance the arduous clinical procedures.

Latest Rituals

Prayers for Decision Making Regarding Unused Embryos

Prayers for either discarding or donating frozen embryos one choose not to use

embryo, infertility

light brown hands cupping light pink petals

The Key: A Ritual for Perinatal Loss

Ritual to acknowledge grief related to infertility or perinatal loss

grief, infertility, loss of a child

close up of white woman wearing white t-shirt with a few colorful horizontal stripes. she's wearing a necklace with a key hanging on it, and she's holding the key with two fingers. she has rings on her pointer and middle fingers.

Prayer for Those Yearning for a Child

“We pray that those yearning to conceive, carry, foster or adopt will lead to a joyful outcome”

baby naming, brit milah, family

Sunlight creating bokeh effect over dewy grass, with a warm and dreamy atmosphere.

Water: A Prayer/Mikveh Ritual for an IVF Miscarriage

“There is nothing mere about water”

grief, IVF, mikveh, miscarriage, Shekhinah

Black and white image of a person underwater, bubbles rising from their mouth, and light beams filtering through.

Hearing in our Hearts

A prayer about infertility invoking the biblical Hannah

Person sitting by a window with closed eyes, hands clasped, and a book on the table.

Prayer Before Starting IVF

infertility, IVF

Woman sitting on a pier, wrapped in a blanket, gazing at a calm sea during sunrise or sunset.

An Invocation of Divine Motherhood

“Motherhood / Finds us…”

mother looking into childs eyes

Faith During an Uncertain Future after Infertility

Thinking about Passover and the death of the firstborn, praying to conceive.

conception, miscarriage, seder

hands holding yellow zinnia

Meditations for Ritual Immersion: For a Woman Beginning Her Journey Toward Conception

To be used when someone stops taking birth control, and begins to look toward becoming a parent

conception, menstruation, mikveh

woman immersing under water

Prayer for Those Who Wish to Become Parents

Prayer for those who want to become parents

young couple lying in the grass