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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...
Donation vs. Adoption: What’s the Difference?
Nowadays, more and more couples are choosing to use donated embryos to complete their families. In fact, the number of frozen embryo transfers (FETs) performed using donated embryos has doubled since 2009. And even though there has been a significant rise in...
Infertility and Maintaining the Heart of Marriage
Infertility is hard—especially on a marriage. The scheduling times to try to conceive and decisions on what fertility treatments to try (or not to try). If you are going the adoption route, there is the rigorous timeline to endure and heartbreak to deal with if it...
In Process: Choosing and Completing an Embryo Adoption Part 2
This is part 2 of last week’s blog. This story is featured in the current issue of Pathway2Family magazine, Winter/Spring 2018. Read the whole issue online! Tim and Ellen considered three different agencies. All had great things about them, but they elected to work...
In Process: Choosing and Completing an Embryo Adoption Part 1
This story is featured in the current issue of Pathway2Family magazine, Winter/Spring 2018. Read the whole issue online! After four years of dating, Tim and Ellen were joyfully married in January 2013. They always talked about having children. Tim frequently joked...
Ways to Fund Your Embryo Adoption
You have done your research, you have talked with your doctor, your family, and maybe your friends. You have made the decision: Embryo adoption is the right path for you. But just one little hurdle stands in your way—the cost. While embryo adoption is one of the least...
Pathway2Family: 2018 Winter/Spring Issue
Check out the latest issue of Pathway2Family at pathway2family.org! In the Winter/Spring 2018 issue, you can read: Adoption: Building Healthy Family Communications – Helpful tips on how to build healthy communications through an open adoption. 10 Pregnancy Myths –...