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The Journey through Embryo Adoption & Donation: Chapter 8
Is a Home Study for Embryo Adoption Necessary? The home study is a required step in any adoption process. It protects the donor family, the adoptive family, and especially the children. It is 80% educational, 20% evaluation. Completing a home study for an embryo...
National Sibling Day
Infertility does not exclusively occur with couples who are trying to start a family for the first time. Some are still facing infertility, even after a successful pregnancy. They may desperately wish to give their child a sibling but find it more difficult than they realized…
Red Flags of Embryo Adoption Self-Matching
When most families begin to dig more seriously into embryo adoption and donation. Many roads are open on this journey. One of them is to self-match using an online or social media platform.
The Journey through Embryo Adoption & Donation: Chapter 7
For families considering their options when it comes to infertility, it is natural to have some worries. One of the biggest hurdles facing many families is the cost.
Fertility Isn’t Funny: How Pregnancy Jokes Can Hurt
While for some people the joke is innocent enough, for others who are facing infertility (especially women), that fake announcement comes across as insensitive and hurtful—almost like a punch to the stomach.
The Journey through Embryo Adoption & Donation: Chapter 6
Many people who have experienced one or more failed IVF cycles successfully give birth to their child they adopted through embryo adoption.
Embryo Adoption Story: Worth Every Struggle
Our embryo adoption story begins in 2012, when we got married. We expected our family life to unfold in the traditional way; we had no idea that conceiving a child would be an issue…
Let’s Talk Surrogacy & Embryo Adoption
Infertility looks different for everyone, and maybe your journey has led you to consider embryo adoption and using a gestational carrier. Many do not think that the two can go hand-in-hand, but using a gestational carrier for your adopted embryos is a valid option!
The Journey through Embryo Adoption & Donation: Chapter 5
By using an agency for your embryo adoption, you’ll have all the information you need to tell your children their special story, providing them with the secure sense of identity they need.
The Benefits of an Embryo Adoption Home Study
Great reminders of why a home study for embryo adoption is beneficial to you as the adoptive family. You want to do and be the best for your future children. And so do we!
The Journey through Embryo Adoption & Donation: Chapter 4
The miracle of modern medicine, combined with the selfless and loving tradition of adoption results in a life-giving option for patients with frozen embryos and a form of adoption that allows parenting to begin with pregnancy.
Endometriosis & Embryo Adoption
Endometriosis affects roughly 190 million, or 10%, of women of reproductive age. What many women struggling with endometriosis do not know is that there is another option available to them: embryo adoption!
The Journey through Embryo Adoption & Donation: Chapter 3
You are thinking about donating your embryos to help another couple realize their dream of building a family. But how?
The Greatest Gift We’ve Ever Given
Throughout our journey of trying to get pregnant and into early parenthood, that one question kept me up at night… “What would you like to do with your unused embryos?” It was an extremely difficult decision for us, but we knew we had to give our embryos a chance at life.
Understanding Psychosocial Outcomes through Embryo Adoption
This was not just a study on embryo donation, but a study largely compromised of parents who adopted through Snowflakes. These families are reporting that their embryo-adopted children are psychosocially well adjusted and they have positive relationships with them.