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Follow a Family’s Journey with Embryo Adoption
When Whitney gave birth to her son, Colt, there was no reason to suspect anything was wrong. She’s had the “perfect pregnancy” and a textbook delivery, but within two hours of his birth Colt was being rushed to NICU for treatment for a rare disease, epidermolysis...
The Benefits of Partnering Your Fertility Clinic with an Embryo Adoption Agency
With the growing awareness of embryo adoption and more families choosing this family building method, more fertility clinics are facing questions about embryo adoption from their patients. While some fertility clinics are choosing to answer these questions by starting...
Hear Embryo Adoption Stories Firsthand
When you are considering embryo adoption, hearing the stories of other couples who have been through the process can be incredibly helpful. Their stories can help answer your questions, calm your fears, and give you insight into areas you hadn’t considered before....
Embryo Donation: Is 2016 the year you give the gift of life?
For many families who have used in vitro fertilization, there is a nagging thought at the back of their mind: what are we going to do with our remaining embryos? That nagging thought usually comes to the forefront of your mind when you get a bill from your embryo...
3 Reasons the Cartledge Family Chose Embryo Adoption
There are a myriad of reasons to choose embryo adoption. Each family has their personal reasons forCartledge family in Tennessee, their choice to use embryo adoption resulted in the birth of their happy, healthy triplets, Henry, Charlie, and Brynton. Angela and...
Adoption in 2016 – Have you given consideration to embryo adoption?
Once the holidays start to wind down, many of us start to make plans for the New Year. While many people will make resolutions to lose weight, get a new job, or pick up a new hobby, this is a great time of year for couples to sit down together and make plans for the...
Fertility Solutions When You Don’t Have a Great Healthcare Plan
Many big companies like Google, Apple and Facebook are helping their employees realize their dreams of becoming parents. The companies are offering benefits like paying for freezing their eggs or offering insurance policies that cover the cost of fertility treatments...
What Are Healthy Boundaries in an Open Adoption?
Many embryo adoptions are done using an open adoption format. That means the families have the option of staying in contact with each other as the child grows up, and the child has the opportunity to meet their biological family in the future if they wish. Both...
Couples Weary of Domestic Adoption Turn to Embryo Adoption
Domestic adoption can be an incredible choice for many families, but for others, it simply isn’t the right option. Many couples become weary of domestic adoption because of stories they hear about biological parents returning for their children. It’s true that some...
Judge Rules That Embryos Are to be Destroyed After Divorce
The world has been watching a landmark case regarding frozen embryos in the San Francisco area. The couple had the embryos frozen when the woman, Mimi Lee, was diagnosed with cancer in 2010 and wanted to preserve her chance of having children in the future. When the...
More Adopting Families Staying in Contact With Bio Families
Open adoption is becoming the standard in the United States. There are over 15,000 infant adoptions in the United States each year, and according to the Huffington Post, more than half of those adoptions are “fully open.” That means both the adopting and biological...
Are There Long-Term Effects on Children Born from Frozen Embryos?
One of the concerns some couples have about embryo adoption is the long-term effects it could have on their child, themselves, and their family as a whole as the child gets older, particularly into their teen years. Finally, a study presented at the American Society...
When Fertility Treatment Options Don’t Work, What’s Next?
Unfortunately, many couples must eventually face the question of what to do when their fertility treatment options aren’t working. Sometimes the treatments simply won’t work for their specific type of infertility, sometimes couples have to stop treatments for...
Videos for Families Considering Donating Frozen Embryos
If you are one of the tens of thousands of people who have remaining frozen embryos in storage, you may be trying to decide what you want to do with them. Discard them? Give them to science? Or donate them to another family wanting to adopt them? The choices aren’t...
3 Myths of Embryo Donation
Embryo donation is getting a lot of attention in the media right now as an affordable, safe family building alternative, but with all the stories there are a lot of myths out there, too. Discover three of the most common myths and what the truth is behind them:...