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Trying to Conceive

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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 either discarding or donating frozen embryos one choose not to use
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Ritual to acknowledge grief related to infertility or perinatal loss
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“We pray that those yearning to conceive, carry, foster or adopt will lead to a joyful outcome”

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“There is nothing mere about water”

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A prayer about infertility invoking the biblical Hannah

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“Motherhood / Finds us…”

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

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

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Prayer for those who want to become parents

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