Is Egg Freezing the Only Solution?

Egg freezing may be used to preserve future fertility for women. Mature oocytes (eggs) are harvested from a woman’s ovaries, flash-frozen (vitrified), stored, and are later thawed to create embryos using in-vitro fertilization. Recently, we came across a very...

Immunization and Pregnancy

August is National Immunization Month. When you are pregnant, you share everything with your baby. This means if you get a vaccine during your pregnancy, you are sharing it with your unborn child. Vaccines help protect you and your baby against serious, preventable...

Embryo Adoption Frees a Flurry of Snowflakes – Part 2

This is part 2 of last week’s blog. This story is featured in the current issue of Pathway2Family magazine, Summer/Fall 2018. Read the whole issue online! In April, those nine lives were shipped from California to our clinic in Pennsylvania. We scheduled our first...

Embryo Adoption Frees a Flurry of Snowflakes – Part 1

This story is featured in the current issue of Pathway2Family magazine, Summer/Fall 2018. Read the whole issue online! I first heard about embryo adoption after my mother heard about it on a radio broadcast. It was 1997-1998 and the first embryo adoption program in...

Nine Tips on Sharing Your Child’s Adoption Story

You have experienced the joys of pregnancy and child birth with your adopted child. Now comes your next hurdle: Telling your child their origin story. How do you go about bringing that conversation up? Do you start now or start when he or she is old enough to...
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