
5. Infertility, Adoption, and Deployment: When It's Not the Path You Expected | Jordan Phillips
Jordan Phillips didn't have a traditional path to fatherhood. Married at nineteen, he joined the military four months later and spent three of his first five years of marriage overseas on two deployments. When he and his wife Amy finally started trying to have kids, the doors kept closing. Years of infertility. Consultations, surgeries, and procedures. A failed round of in vitro. And a growing question neither of them wanted to ask out loud: is this ever going to happen for us?
It wasn't until they stopped forcing it and opened themselves to adoption that everything changed. Doors that had…
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