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Anabelle Petersen: Our Embryo Donation Journey, Part 2
The continued story of Anabelle Petersen’s embryo donation process Tom presented the idea of using the Snowflakes program to me when our daughter was about a month old and I struggled with the thought of giving up on our remaining embryos. My doctor advised me to not...
Anabelle Petersen: Our Embryo Donation Journey, Part 1
What do you do with your remaining embryos? Anabelle Petersen shed many tears over what the best decision was for her and her family. Read the first part of her story… As I’m writing this I realize it’s been exactly 10 years since our in-vitro procedure (on August 7th...
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...