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Pathway2Family: A magazine about fertility and adoption
Check out the latest issue of Pathway2Family at pathway2family.org! In the latest issue, you can read: 7 Helpful Self-Care Tips as You Work to Overcome Infertility Speaking to Your Doctor About Embryo Adoption The Journey to Pregnancy: Laying the Adoption Foundation...
The New Methods Making IVF More Successful
In vitro fertilization methods continue to improve around the world. Researchers in Singapore have developed a method “that will allow the development of an embryo to be monitored in real time without affecting its future growth.” With this method, labs can actually...
Embryo Adoption: A Blog Series from 4Word
4Word is an online community that connects, leads, and supports professional women striving to achieve their potential. In May of this year, they created a series of blogs about embryo adoption and donation, with three women sharing their journeys through the unique...
The Cost of Infertility: Domestic Infant Adoption
In this ongoing blog series, we’re looking where your money goes when it comes to alternative family building methods. We’ve talked about the cost of sperm donation, where your money goes when you use donor eggs, and how much it costs to use a surrogate. Now, we’ll...
3 Most Common Types of Male Infertility
When it comes to infertility, generally one-third of the cases can be attributed to men. That can surprise many people who think of infertility as a woman’s problem, and it’s why fertility clinics will want to test both men and women who come into their office seeking...
How Do I Donate My Remaining Embryos?
Currently, there are over 600,000 embryos in storage in the United States. Some of those embryos will go on to be born, while others will have to wait for their genetic parents to decide what to do with them. Should they be discarded? Donated to science? One of the...
What You’ll Find in an Embryo Adoption Family Profile
When going through the embryo adoption process with an adoption agency, potential adopters get a lot of information about the family who will donate their embryos to them. This helps the adoptive family make an informed decision regarding their embryo adoption match....
What One Adoptive Family Says About their Embryo Donors
When David and Joanna Rea were considering embryo adoption, they weren’t just thinking about the potential to grow their family; they were thinking about the family who would be donating their embryos to them as well. Even before they’d been matched, the Reas thought...
Common Concerns About Embryo Donation
Donating your remaining embryos after you’ve completed your family is a deeply personal choice. For some couples, it is the obvious choice for any embryos that remain. For other couples, they may have questions or concerns that need answers before they feel...
How Embryos are Frozen and Thawed
There are more than 600,000 frozen embryos in storage in the United States and the number is growing every day. Some of those embryos will be taken out of frozen storage and thawed to be used by either the genetic parents or by adoptive families through embryo...
How Excess Weight Affects Fertility & If It Can Be Reversed
Weight can have a negative effect on many aspects of your health, but did you know that it can affect your fertility as well? Excess weight has been shown to decrease your chances of conception, most commonly by causing a condition called Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome,...
The Cost of Infertility: Surrogacy
In this blog series, we’re looking at where your money goes when it comes to alternative family building methods. We’ve talked about the cost of sperm donation and where your money goes when you use donor eggs. This time, we’ll discuss the expenses involved with...
What to Do With Your Remaining Embryos
As more couples turn to in vitro fertilization as an alternative family building method, there are an ever increasing number of remaining embryos in frozen storage in the United States. Some estimates put the number of frozen embryos at 600,000 and the number grows...
What One Study Has to Say About Frozen Embryo Transfers
When it comes to frozen embryo transfers, the prevailing belief among both patients and doctors used to be that more was better. Because not every transfer is going to be a success in IVF or embryo adoption and couples were often putting all of their hopes into one...
What Happened to the Hawkins Family After They Were Chosen for Embryo Adoption
When a couple decides that they would like to go through the frozen embryo adoption process, they’ll go through a process that’s similar to adopting an already-born child through an open adoption. They will create a profile and wait to be picked by a donating family....