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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?...
Three Boys and an Embryo Baby
I never expected to adopt. The concept wasn’t completely foreign—my wife, Julie, and I had discussed the possibility of adopting or fostering before we were married. But three years into building our family, we welcomed our first biological son, then a second, then a...
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...