Idaho newscaster, his wife take light-hearted approach to tough issue of infertility

BOISE, Idaho -- An Idaho newscaster is making headlines for taking a light-hearted approach to a tough issue that affects him personally. Spencer Blake and his wife have "unexplained infertility" -- but that's not stopping them from being a family.

Some know Spencer Blake from "Good Morning Idaho."

At home, he is a loving husband and a caring father. Their children are adopted.

"Having our children swallows up the agony that we were in, of course, because we were able to adopt. We wouldn't change that for the world," Blake said.

Infertility is an issue that many couples keep out of the public eye.

But Spencer Blake and his wife Whitney opted to share it on social media.

Spoofing creative pregnancy announcements, they used humor to shed light on something they may never be able to do -- and bring a smile to those going through the same thing.

"It was just kind of our unique twist to something we see all the time on social media," Whitney Blake said.

At first, they posted the photos on their blog during Infertility Awareness Week. It didn't take long for the photos to go viral.

One article on BuzzFeed gained more than 12,000 "likes" on Facebook, with one person commenting: "This is awesome. We experienced four years of fighting infertility before finally conceiving. You gotta laugh through the pain or it'll consume you."

"Sympathy and empathy go along way for something that's that difficult -- so we've had times where we received it and so it's nice we can give that to other people too," Spencer Blake said.

The Blakes say they will never love infertility, but without it, they would never have become a family.

"Infertility is what led us to adoption and that's what led us to our little boys we firmly believe that our family is just the way it was meant to be," Whitney Blake said.

According to the CDC, one in eight couples have trouble getting pregnant or sustaining a pregnancy.