My dear friends Jeff & Kaley Kerver, have had a very tough road the past year. The Kerver family have wanted to be parents in the worst way. They started their IVF journey in the middle of Covid, resulting in Kaley becoming sick with Covid, the day of her first egg retrieval leading to a hospitalization. After a failed cycle, Kaley and Jeff had learned none of their seven embryos survived. After a second cycle, the Kerver's were able to successfully transfer an embryo. Excited and preparing with the news of twin girls on the way, at 19 weeks they unfortunately said goodbye to one of their twin girls. Since then, Kaley and Jeff have faced many hardships from her water breaking at 19 weeks, many hospitalizations, and bedrest resulting in her having to take a leave from her nursing career. Now, Kaley has been hospitalized again until their daughter, who continues to fight so hard, is born into this world. Once baby Kerver arrives they will have to spend quite some time visiting their daughter in the NICU, who will require an unknown amount of surgeries. With all of this Kaley will have to remain out of work until the foreseeable future. Below is Kaley's heartfelt post telling their story publicly a few weeks back. Please take the time to read and consider helping this family-to-be during this difficult time. Please consider sharing the Kerver's story while keeping them in your thoughts and prayers. Thank you all in advance!

"Finding the right and best time to tell our story has been such a struggle, but I think it’s time to finally update you all on our pregnancy journey. When asked how’s it going the only things that come to our minds are HARD..exhausting..an emotional roller coaster.. the most challenging thing my husband, family, and myself have battled and wish we never had to. At 16 weeks, we were told both of our baby girls have problems. Not one, but both our girls we worked so hard to have are sick. Our hearts sank, one baby diagnosed with a hypoplastic heart, half a heart. The other with a mass in her bladder. Through IVF, we never thought this would be the outcome with all the genetic testing they do, but they did inform us it doesn’t cover everything. When one embryo is placed, that split like ours did birth defects are high. Our baby with half a heart, would need multiple open heart surgeries within the first couple years of her life, and eventually need a heart transplant at 30 years old. They told us cancer is rare in fetus’s, and not to worry about the mass in our other baby’s bladder. At 19 weeks, we said goodbye to our baby girl with half a heart, she will forever be with us. Having twins was now a thing of the past, but now we have a guardian angel watching over us, and who will forever be her sisters guardian angel in life. Our other baby with the bladder mass, will need surgery when she comes into this world. Now at 26 weeks, after so many doctor appointments that we can’t even count anymore, losing a baby, two hospitalizations, both of my waters breaking, bed rest, not working in almost 3 months, I’m packing a bag to be admitted to the hospital until we have our precious baby girl. It could be up to an 8 week hospitalization, because they won’t let the pregnancy go farther than 34 weeks. This little girl is such a fighter just like her parents, and has come soo far ! She will be one special girl!!! If you could all keep my growing family in mind, and prayers along the way I couldn’t thank you enough. The day we get to meet our baby girl will be here before we know it, and we can’t wait ❤️❤️"