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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:...
Why Infertility Isn’t Always a Factor in Embryo Adoption
For the majority of couples exploring the embryo adoption option for building their families, they’ve come to a clinic or adoption agency after a long struggle with infertility. Embryo adoption gives them an affordable, highly successful way to have the baby they’ve...
Why Embryo Donation Doesn’t Come With Compensation
While it’s true that human egg donors and sperm donors are compensated for their time and effort, currently there are no compensation plans for donor embryos when they are given to a clinic or an agency for adoption.Embryos donated for reproduction are given by...
Sisters Frozen as Embryos Reunite to Become Best Friends
When Allison and Tom Benassi were asked what they’d like to do with their leftover embryos after their in vitro fertilization treatments were complete, they decided to donate them. They’d been trying to have a child for five years before they had daughter Jamie and...
Study Confirms IVF Options are Encouraging More Women to Wait
The average age of a woman when she starts her family has been slowing climbing since the 1970’s. Today the average age is 25.1, higher than it has ever been and still climbing. The Centers for Disease Control reported in 2014 that the number of women over age 35 who...
Three Reasons Embryo Adoption is On the Rise
If it seems like you are hearing more and more about embryo adoption, you aren’t wrong. Not only has media coverage of the alternative family building method increased, so have the number of adoptions taking place each year. A steady increase over the last several...
Will an Embryo Donor Family Choose You?
When you donate your leftover frozen embryos for adoption, many agencies will give you the opportunity to have a say in which family will be able to adopt them. This gives you an opportunity to ensure that the family receiving your donor embryos will be able to...
Is Embryo Adoption a Fertility Solution for Pro-Life Catholics?
The Catholic Church takes a firm stance on in vitro fertilization: it’s a non-starter for infertile Catholic couples. The church issued a document in 1987 called the Donum Vitae, or “The Gift of Life,” which clearly outlined its stance on alternative family building...
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...