By Jessica Easthope
For a mother there’s no sweeter sound than hearing your children enjoy themselves during a day out. For Lindsay Scully that sound has amplified – and multiplied – over the years.
“In the beginning, three boys under five was challenging but amazing,” she tells Currents News. “They fight with each other, they wrestle with each other, but they love each other and they love us.”
There was a time in life when Lindsay and her husband Glenn never thought they’d hear the sound of life and laughter in their home.
“Maybe God was not allowing us to have children at that time. We saw that all our friends and family were having children, and that was frustrating,” explains Glenn.
After trying for years to get pregnant Lindsay was wrongly diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome and advanced ovarian age. The couple was told that in vitro fertilization was their only hope, but that option never felt right. That’s when they discovered the Gianna Center, New York’s only pro-life reproductive health center. There is where they met the center’s medical director, Dr. Anne Nolte.
“Dr. Nolte listened to all of my symptoms,” Lindsay recalls. “She listened to what everybody else had diagnosed me with. And within that very first visit, she actually diagnosed the issue.”
“In the field of women’s health, there’s actually very little, little real effort made to identify the underlying reason a person is having the issue that they’re having,” Dr. Nolte explains.
Lindsay’s new – and correct – diagnosis ended up being endometriosis.
Dr. Nolte introduced the couple to NaProTECHNOLOGY, short for natural procreative technology. She said it’s an effective alternative to fertility treatments and procedures that can often do more harm than good.
“In a woman’s reproductive system intervening with her menstrual fertility cycle, if it’s with medicine she doesn’t need, the treatment actually becomes the cause of the infertility,” Dr. Nolte tells Currents News.
Today those boys – Craig, Jude and Theo – are proof not just for Lindsay and Glenn but for couples everywhere that hope does exist beyond a diagnosis especially, when your doctor really hears you.
Lindsay remembers a time after her endometriosis surgery when Dr. Nolte prayed with her.
“She said, ‘Okay, you know, we’ve done what we have to do. Let’s just say a prayer.’ And we said a prayer. And then within weeks, I didn’t even have to come back for the follow up appointment because then we were pregnant,” Lindsay says.
“God actually really is present in their suffering. And when we pray together, I do believe that many couples feel his presence,” Dr. Nolte tells Currents News.
For the first time in their fertility journey Lindsay and Glenn had left the doctor’s office with more answers than questions.
In the 15 years since the Gianna Center opened, more than 2,000 couples have conceived using the NaProTECHNOLOGY approach.
To learn more about the Gianna Center, go to their website, catholichealthli.org/gianna-center.