Wayland High School teacher Sarah Sisson Rollandini has penned a book, “Life After Infertility,” which came out earlier this month.
“Life After Infertility” is part memoir, part devotional eschewing Christian platitudes to explore the tension between fears and God’s faithfulness. Loaded with grit, humor and tenderness, the book invites readers into testimony of a 10-year TTC survivor. Each chapter demonstrates how coming to the end of ourselves frees us to embrace the invaluable gifts of waiting.
Rollandini and her husband, Mark, began their journey toward starting a family in the winter of 1997.
“Little did we know the twists and turns our journey would take,” she said. “Through infertility meds, tubal pregnancy, and miscarriage, we questioned God’s plan for our lives.
“I learned that God doesn’t close doors to open windows so much as smash the whole place to smithereens to make way for new dreams, His dreams for us. That is my story. After years of chronic grief that followed me around like a black cloud, I said yes to a new idea of family. Our children joined us first through domestic adoption and later through gestational surrogacy.”
Rollandini, who teaches sign language at Wayland High School, has a master’s degree in deaf education from Gallaudet University and a bachelor’s degree in deaf education from Michigan State University, She has been on the faculty at WHS since 2012, but has been teaching deaf students and American sign language for the past 20 years.
She and her husband live in Dorr and have two daughters, ages 12 and 10, and one son, age 8, all of whom attend Wayland schools.
