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Ryan and Kimberly’s Journey through Embryo Donation and Adoption Part 1
The following is written by a family who choose to donate their remaining embryos and is edited by the Awareness Center for the purpose of this blog. I always have felt a calling to adopt. In fact, after my first in vitro success and subsequent miscarriage, we...
Embryo Adoption with No Fertility Issues
For the past 10 months the Awareness Center has hosted a monthly session of our popular “The Affordable and Accessible Adoption Choice” webinar, designed specifically for families interested in learning more about the process of embryo donation and adoption. At the...
What’s the Big Secret?
Actress Elizabeth Rohm, best known for her roles on Law & Order, Heroes and The Client List, has written a book called 'Baby Steps, Having the Child I Always Wanted (Just Not as I Expected)'. In her story she relates her discovery about the negative impact of...
The Bump talks Embryo Adoption! Is it right for me?
A recent post, on the popular pregnancy help website The Bump, talked about embryo adoption and featured the DeVore family. You can read about their personal experience or watch a recent news segment the DeVores recorded. The Bump post also quotes a bioethicist from...
Embryo Adoption on Al Jazeera America
"It was not an option to try to have 14 more (children). But we loved her enough to choose life for her by embryo adoption. " Those are the words of Melissa Eggleton when asked by Al Jazeera News why she chose to donate her remaining embryos to another family.After...
The New Improved EmbryoAdoption.org
After months of hard work, planning and deep thought, it is finally finished.The Embryo Adoption Awareness Center has just completed an extensive update of our website and we are very excited to share it with you. With an average of over 6,000 visitors per month...
Is Embryo Adoption Ethical?
Ethicist Russell D. Moore shared his opinion the morality ofEmbryo Adoption at a recent meeting of the Southern BaptistConvention. Embryo Adoption has helped hundreds of families around the country struggling with infertility achieve their dreams of pregnancy and...
Focusing on Donor Conceived Kids
To tell or not to tell? That is inevitably the question when parents have children born as a result of donor conception. It is never a simple decision, but recently several resources have come about to help aid and educate families making this critical and important...
A New Day for Embryo Adoption
The latest episode of the 'New Day Northwest' morning show featured a segment focusing on Embryo Adoption as Charlie DeVore and her infant daughter CJ stopped by to share their inspirational story. After struggling with infertility the DeVore family chose to pursue an...
Best of the EAAC: Double Strollers, Bunk Beds, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
What do double strollers, bunk beds and IVF have in common? According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, quite a lot. Twins are becoming increasing common in our society because of an increase in infertility treatments and aging mothers. In...
My Fertility Treatments Didn’t Work. What Now?
It is a reality that no one wants to face. Sometimes fertility treatments don’t work.While hearing the initial sad news is tough to stomach, the days and weeks after can also prove to be quite the emotional challenge.In a recent blog appearing on HuffingtonPost.com,...
Making Dreams Come True
Below is one of our favorite videos helping to demonstrate the potential of every embryo, even those currently in frozen storage. It is an oldie but a goodie and we hope you enjoy. (Please read comment policy before commenting)
Is there really any benefit to open adoption?
One of the best practices of adoption is to encourage communication between the family placing their child for adoption and the family adopting the child. Adoption researchers discovered that keeping the information surrounding an adoption a secret was not...
Sarah Shares Her Embryo Adoption Story on Mom Talk Radio
Late last month, the Awareness Center wrote a blog announcing a radio segment on Mom Talk Radio focusing on Embryo Adoptive. Although delayed by a week, the interview came out yesterday (Sunday, May 4th), kicking off a busy radio show.During the interview, Sarah...
Openness and Embryo Donation
Last Thursday, April 24th, the Awareness Center hosted a session of our “Embryo Donor Solutions” webinar, an event explaining options for families with remaining embryos in frozen storage after completing their family building process. At the end of our presentation,...