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After receiving certain infertility diagnoses, fertility doctors will often recommend IVF with donor egg, donor sperm, or both. This can be a major setback to some families—especially those who have always dreamed of having a genetic child. Couples are often left...
Ibuprofen Causes Infertility?
In the age of the Internet, people expect quick, straight forward solutions to their problems. Everyone thinks they can find the simple and direct answer just by Googling it. Health problems are no different. Today, people are relaying on cutting gluten, or adding...
Where Should I Donate My Embryos?
When families decide they would like to donate their embryos to another family, they are sometimes overwhelmed by all the different donation options that are available to them. In a nutshell, here are three potential programs and options you can pursue when it comes...
Hearts Thawed, Babies Born
Rachael and Pete were hoping to have children of their own, but they found out quickly having babies may not be as easy as they expected. Fertility treatments lead to the birth of their first son Samuel and then a devastating miscarriage. Instead of continuing down...
Preeclampsia and Embryo Adoption
May is National Preeclampsia Awareness Month. Preeclampsia is a disorder which develops after the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. It is characterized by the onset of high blood pressure and often a significant amount of protein in the urine. Many women worry about...
Coping with Male Infertility
When the word infertility is mentioned, most often female infertility is thought of first. Most couples never even consider their infertility can be caused by the man. But males are responsible for 20–30 percent of infertility cases. Men tend to respond to the...
National Infertility Awareness Week
This week is recognized as National Infertility Awareness Week (NIAW). RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association founded NIAW in 1989 and it became a federally recognized health observance by the Department of Health and Human Services in 2010. The goal of this...
Taking Care of Your Mental Health While Struggling with Infertility
April is National Stress Awareness Month. If you have struggled with infertility, you know it is exhausting in more ways than one: financially, physically, and emotionally. While juggling the stress of infertility, it can be easy to forget about your mental health....
Advantages & Risks of Embryo Adoption
Any adoption program comes with advantages and risks. Here are some that we compiled for embryo adoption: Advantages Allows adoptive mother to experience pregnancy and child birth Many families who cannot conceive grieve that they will never experience pregnancy. In...
An Embryo Adoption Success Story of International Proportions
This story is can be found in the current issue of Pathway2Family magazine, Winter/Spring 2018. Read the whole issue online! In August 2006, native Brazilian, Anabelle Petersen and her husband, Tom, were anxiously awaiting the result of their first embryo transfer....
Nutrients Which Aid Fertility
We all know the age-old myth: Want to have a baby? Eat oysters! But did you know there is actually some truth to this old saying? Oysters contain high levels of zinc, and studies have shown deficiencies in zinc can have adverse effects on fertility. So what nutrients...
The Transfer – Tim & Ellen’s Embryo Adoption
If you recall back in one of our blogs in January, Tim and Ellen finally had a transfer with some of their adopted embryos. Unfortunately, their transfer did not work as planned and no pregnancy resulted. We offer our deepest condolences to Tim and Ellen. A failed FET...
Embryo Quality: Does It Matter?
There are a variety of methods used by medical professionals to grade frozen human embryos, to project the likelihood of pregnancy success. This often includes preimplantation genetic diagnostic (PGD) and preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) testing. However,...
Overcome Endometriosis through Embryo Adoption
March is Endometriosis Awareness Month. Did you know that 5-10% of women have a form of endometriosis? This condition causes endometrial tissue, which normally is only supposed to grow on the inside lining of the uterus, to be displaced outside of the uterus. This...
Protecting Your Baby from Birth Defects Through Nutrition
Women who are interested in embryo adoption are clearly interested in becoming pregnant and carrying a healthy child to term. Did you know there is something you can begin NOW that will help protect your growing child in utero? Take folic acid. Jennifer Hofmeister, a...