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What Happens to Donor Embryos After You’ve Been Matched with an Adopting Family
Families who donate their remaining frozen embryos for adoption are eager for the day they match an adopting family. Donor families experience many feelings when that day arrives; they may experience feelings of sadness and grief along with joy and excitement that...
Where to Donate Your Frozen Embryos
Most families who undergo in vitro fertilization treatments will eventually face the question of what to do with their leftover embryos. They may decide that the only choice they can live with is to donate those embryos to a family who desires to have children and...
Will My Embryos Qualify for Donation?
Some potential embryo donors may shy away from donation because they think their donor embryos won’t qualify. While some clinics place rules on the number, rating, or age of an embryo, there are agencies that are happy to take your frozen embryos without exception and...
Fresh or Frozen Embryos – What Are My Chances for Success?
Couples who are concerned that a frozen embryo adoption won’t offer the same rates of success as a fresh embryo from an IVF cycle are getting good news from a new study by doctors in Australia and New Zealand. A recent study found that frozen embryo transfers...
What One Iowa Mom Decided to Do with Her Remaining Frozen Embryos
For one mother in Iowa, the decision about what to do with her frozen embryos came down to deciding what choice she could live with for the rest of her life. After going through IVF treatments and having her two children, Lydia Fine and her husband felt that their...
Exploring the Legal Side of Frozen Embryo Adoption
For many parts of the world, adopting a child has been legal for less than 100 years. Even in the United States, modern adoption laws didn’t appear on the books until the passage of the Adoption of Children Act in Massachusetts in 1851. Adoption law was slow to...
Meet the Boy Who Was a Frozen Embryo When He Survived Hurricane Katrina
There are a half million frozen embryos in storage in the United States, and 8-year-old Noah was one of those frozen embryos when Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. Noah’s mother, Rebekah, had received IVF treatments at The Fertility Institute in New Orleans, where she...
What Kind of People are Adopting Embryos?
Embryo adoption is becoming more and more common within the United States. While the technology for the procedure has been around for more than 30 years, it’s really only in the last few years that people have even heard about the option. Today, stories about embryo...
Cancer Survivors Finding Hope in Embryo Adoption
Many cancer survivors face huge obstacles when it comes to building their families through traditional methods. They may be experiencing fertility issues due to chemotherapy or surgical treatments or even be reluctant to pass along their genes to a genetic child due...
Adoption or Donation? Why the Word “Adoption” Matters
Is it adoption or are you receiving a donation? While it may seem like a simple matter of terminology, there is a huge benefit to calling the process of transferring embryos from one family to another an adoption. Traditional adoptions are the process of placing a...
Snowflakes Babies Aren’t Just an Infertility Solution
Embryo adoption is becoming increasingly popular as an infertility solution thanks in part to safety, affordability, and rate of success. But it isn't just coupled struggling with infertility who are choosing frozen embryo adoption as a way to grow their family. Many...
Will Embryo Adoption Work for Me Even if IVF Didn’t?
Many couples who experience unsuccessful in vitro fertilization treatments can still go on to give birth to a healthy, happy baby through embryo adoption. Just because IVF didn’t work for them, they may believe that embryo adoption won’t either. But embryo adoption...
What does it take to donate my leftover embryos?
When a couple decides that they have completed their family through in vitro fertilization, they’ll face an important decision about what to do with their remaining embryos. Many families decide that embryo donation is the right choice for them, and offer their donor...
What Are the Frozen Embryo Transfer Success Rates?
One of the first questions a couple will have about the embryo adoption process is how successful is it? What are your chances of a successful transfer and healthy pregnancy? You may have been struggling with infertility and you want to choose a family building option...
Why IVF Doesn’t Work for All Women
In vitro fertilization has become a commonplace option at fertility clinics around the world. More insurance companies are covering the cost and more women are banking on the treatment as a fertility solution to their own advancing age or other fertility issues....