Part 3

By Dr. Becky Sanez, Edited by Embryo Adoption Awareness Center

The following is Part 3 of Drs. Becky and Joe Saenz’s Embryo Adoption story. Their story is revealed in a four part series on the EAAC blog. Parts 12 are posted on earlier EAAC blogs.

Despite the uncertainties, I found peace and felt that we had indeed, done the right thing.

The remaining four embryos were from the other couple, and were therefore all siblings, fertilized at the same time, in the same petri dish. When I returned to the infertility specialist to begin the second attempt, he re-evaluated everything and said, “I don’t know what happened last time, but it wasn’t anything wrong with you.” Healing words. So we proceeded with the process.

Both of the two embryos thawed the second time survived the thawing process, and were transferred. Within a week, I began to feel pregnant. Not surprisingly, the test was positive this time. However, the six-week ultrasound showed only one baby. He looked healthy and in a good position, but this was bittersweet news because he was alone. Jacob was born on July 21, 2006, the day after then-president George W. Bush’s famous Snowflake press conference at the White House. We had actually watched that press conference on TV while I was in labor! A couple of months later, we had our “post-placement” social worker visit. Life was good.

About a month after that, we got a phone call from our adoption agency, inquiring whether we wanted to return the other two embryos, or if we would be keeping custody in hopes of bringing Jacob’s younger siblings to term. After more thought and discussion we called them back to say, we’d keep the other two, since we’d been committed from the beginning to giving the whole set a chance at life.

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