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What’s Your Attitude Towards Remaining Embryos?
When you start the process of in vitro fertilization, your focus is on one thing: becoming pregnant. Even though your clinic explains to you that you may have left-over embryos, left-overs are not at the forefront of your brain. What fertility clinics have discovered...
Why is a Home Study Necessary for an Embryo Adoption?
If embryos are considered property and not human life in the United States, why is an embryo adoption home study required by some agencies and fertility clinics? The simple answer is that requiring a home study as part of the embryo adoption process follows the best...
Embryo Donation is an Option
If your embryos could talk, what would they say? Hello, hello! Yes, it’s me, your little embryo. Do have a moment to chat? It’s been sometime since you created me, and while I am super happy you did, I was wondering what your plans are for me. Are you planning to...
Looking Back on 2018
As we reflect back on the year, there are so many things to be thankful for: The health of living in a bountiful nation, the happiness of having choices, and the hope of what tomorrow will bring. Yet, as we ponder these things among our daily to do lists, nothing...
Open Adoption = Family Health
Chip and Lynda were no strangers to the struggle of infertility. Unable to conceive naturally, the couple decided to pursue other means of family building. But they agreed if they were not able to have a child of their own, that they would consider adoption. The...
What Can I Do with My Remaining Embryos?
IVF is one of the most common medical treatments pursued by infertile couples. Did you know researchers found that about two thirds (65.3%) of patients will be successful after six or more cycles of IVF? If you do the math, that equates to a total of over 12 million...
Three Centuries of Assisted Reproductive Technologies
In the past ten years, the use of assisted reproductive technology (ART) has greatly increased. However, the use of ART existed long before Louise Brown, the first test tube baby, was born. The first attempted ART treatments began as early as the 1700s! Here are some...
Dealing with Stress during the Embryo Adoption Process
In the United States there is a designated day for just about everything—National Doughnut Day, National Abyssinian Cat Day, National Hug Your Iguana Day—but did you know that November 7th is National Stress Awareness Day? Perhaps you celebrate that day a bit more...
Choosing Life for Embryos
Lindsay and Rick first met at an engagement party for their mutual friends. They fell in love on the dance floor at the same friends’ wedding. In their wildest dreams, the couple never imagined they would struggle with infertility. After a year of trying, six failed...
Impatiently Enduring the Two Week Wait
The two week wait after undergoing a frozen embryo transfer can be a time of high anxiety, worry, and frustration for families going through embryo adoption. The two week wait is the period of time after the transfer has occurred until you take your first pregnancy...
The Emotional Aftermath of an Ectopic Pregnancy
October is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. Infant or pregnancy loss can happen for a number of reasons, like miscarriage or SIDS. One rare occurrence of pregnancy loss is an ectopic pregnancy. The word ectopic means “out of place.” An ectopic...
The Difference between Secrecy & Privacy
Traditionally, adoption has been perceived as a single event rather than a lifelong process. However, adoption affects experiences throughout life for everyone involved: the adoptive family, the birth family, and especially the child. While openness is now encouraged...
Fertility: Fact & Fiction
This year, September 26th marks National Women’s Health and Fitness Day. Women’s health and fitness levels are a big component of fertility. But there are many myths which are being mixed in with truths. So what does affect women’s fertility, ability to carry a...
Separation, Divorce, Death, Oh My!
The Embryo Adoption Awareness Center has been providing educational information for several years regarding the importance of having a plan for your remaining embryos in the event of separation, divorce or death. If you have already created embryos or if you are...
Open Adoption, Closed, or Anonymous?
Families are surprised to learn that most adoptions today are considered “open” (around 95% of adoptions) and that is becoming true for embryo adoption, as well. What options are available? What is the best fir for you, your matched family, and especially your child?...