by blastoff | Aug 24, 2012 | Blog
Tad and Veronica’s Family My husband and I were blessed with Boy/Girl twins after our first in vitro cycle. We had nine remaining frozen embryos. When our twins were two, we felt we needed to face the hard decision of what to do with our remaining embryos....
by blastoff | Aug 17, 2012 | Blog
The following story of embryo adoption was compiled by the Family Research Council and edited for the purposes of this blog by the Awareness Center.On December 26, 1998, after 2 ½ years of fertility treatments including IVF, we found out that we were finally pregnant!...
by blastoff | Aug 13, 2012 | Blog
Black women are nearly twice as likely to struggle with fertility as their white counterparts. But why? Diane Ashton, M.D., an obstetrician and Deputy Medical Director for the March of Dimes, recently outlined 5 of the most common factors impacting among black...
by blastoff | Aug 10, 2012 | Blog
The following is taken from this couple’s online journal, www.jjandtracy.com, compiled by the Family Research Council and edited for the purposes of this blog by the Awareness Center. August 5, 2004: Yesterday we had our embryo transfer appointment....
by blastoff | Aug 6, 2012 | Blog
Infertility struggles plague 1 in 8 couples, or 7.3 million women and their partners, in the United States. But the face of infertility is near twice as likely to be black as it is to be white. Among black women, 11.5% are reporting fertility struggles,...
by blastoff | Aug 3, 2012 | Blog
Tanner BrinkmanA life without children seemed a curse without cure. My whole life I had dreamed of motherhood only to have those dreams crushed with the words “You and your husband are not likely to conceive children together.” For seven long years we waited for our...
