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

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

Prayer for Those Yearning for a Child

Water: A Prayer/Mikveh Ritual for an IVF Miscarriage

“There is nothing mere about water”

grief, IVF, mikveh, miscarriage, Shekhinah

Water: A Prayer/Mikveh Ritual for an IVF Miscarriage

Hearing in our Hearts

A prayer about infertility invoking the biblical Hannah

Hearing in our Hearts

Prayer Before Starting IVF

infertility, IVF

Prayer Before Starting IVF

An Invocation of Divine Motherhood

“Motherhood / Finds us…”

Faith During an Uncertain Future after Infertility

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

conception, miscarriage, seder

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

Prayer for Those Who Wish to Become Parents

Prayer for those who want to become parents

conception, mi sheberakh

A Meditation: Using the Mikveh when Dealing with Infertility

A prayer for strength and blessings to be recited before entering the mikveh