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A Journey from Two Sides: The Adoption Perspective
Blake & Sarah meeting Michael & Lisa This is part 2 of last week’s blog (link here). This story is featured in the current issue of Pathway2Family magazine, Winter/Spring 2019. Read the whole issue online! My husband Blake is an answered prayer himself, having...
A Journey from Two Sides: The Donation Perspective
Michael, Lisa, and their three children. This story is featured in the current issue of Pathway2Family magazine, Winter/Spring 2019. Read the whole issue online! Michael and I were joyfully married in 2008. Both of us had been married before. I had two children, and...
Financing an Embryo Adoption
The most common reason hopeful adoptive families give for not moving forward with embryo adoption is a lack of funds. They are ready to be pregnant, give birth, and love a child through embryo adoption, but believe they are unable to proceed due to financial...
Keeping a Marriage Strong through an Embryo Adoption
Adopting a child through an embryo adoption is exciting and joyful, but it can also bring stress and strain into a couple’s marriage. Our lives are already filled with stresses from work, financial obligations, and other family-related issues, and the adoption process...
How Safe is Your Secret?
What are the two primary ways people think about conception secrecy? 1. How does secrecy help or hurt your child’s development as a person? 2. Everyone believes their secret will always remain a secret – but it doesn’t! Today, let’s focus on the likelihood of your...
Pathway2Family: Winter/Spring 2019 Issue
Pathway2Family Winter/Spring 2019 Check out the latest issue of Pathway2Family magazine at pathway2family.org! Here’s what is featured in the Winter/Spring 2019 issue: 7 Helpful Self-Care Tips as You Work to Overcome Infertility – A list of self-care techniques you...
8 Tips for Creating an Adopting Family Profile
When you choose to pursue an embryo adoption, your family profile will be the first and best opportunity to introduce yourself to a placing family! At first, it may seem intimidating to get started. You may have questions as follows: What do placing families want to...
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...