ROCHESTER, N.Y. — It was a very special Mother's Day for a local woman who fought through infertility to get the blessing of her life seven months ago.

Hannah Gasic and her family celebrated having a Mother's Day brunch Saturday.

Gasic said she and her husband had been trying to conceive since 2014. She was recommended to the Rochester Fertility Care Center a year later, and in September of 2020 she gave birth to a baby boy.

Spectrum News spoke to her about her long journey and what helped her along the way.

"If you want to be a mother, you will be a mother," Gasic said. "And it might not be the way the way that you imagined or hoped, but it will happen, one way or another. I mean there is medical science that does incredibly amazing things. And there is also, I haven’t been through it, but I know people who have been through the adoption process. And one way or another you will get there. And just have hope and have faith and have a support system that can help you through it."

According to the center's studies, 15 in every 100 women will experience infertility issues in their lifetime.