Mental Health & Embryo Adoption: Dispelling the Myths

Mental Health & Embryo Adoption: Dispelling the Myths

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Millions of individuals struggle with mental illness. In fact, 57.8 million adults around the world struggled with some sort of disease of the brain in 2021. Families who are donating their embryos are no exception to this...
Supporting Friends on Mother’s Day

Supporting Friends on Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is meant to be a time for appreciating and treasuring the relationships between mothers and their children. However, Mother’s Day can also highlight the emptiness some may feel if they are in the midst of infertility. With glaring reminders on social...
What if My Embryos Were Created with Donated Eggs?

What if My Embryos Were Created with Donated Eggs?

“What if my embryos were created with donated eggs?” There are two sides to this story: the embryo donor family with remaining embryos and the adoptive family “going home” with those embryos. In this post, we will focus on the donor family’s experience. Our first...
Five Dangerous Infertility Myths

Five Dangerous Infertility Myths

This week is known as National Infertility Awareness Week. All too often, we are subjected to a wide-range of misinformation online about infertility, which spreads from the misconceptions, half-truths, anecdotes, and downright myths. Sadly, this distortion of the...
The Journey through Embryo Adoption & Donation: Chapter 9

The Journey through Embryo Adoption & Donation: Chapter 9

The Smart Choice – Open Embryo Adoption There are many misconceptions about what open embryo adoption means. It does not mean a child has two families. It does not mean that you must spend holidays and vacations with the donor. It does mean the two parties come...
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