The topics of embryo adoption and donation have been written about by news outlets nationwide. Click on the article below to read more of these captivating stories.

• WBRC 6: ‘We were on the cloud for nine months and never came down’: B’ham family describes journey with embryo adoption: IVF and IUI’s, if you’ve dealt with infertility, all the acronyms mean the same thing. You can’t have a child. It’s crushing news for couples who want so badly to be parents, but embryo adoption is changing all of that. The more you learn about it the more it feels like a scientific miracle. At least that’s how the Miller family describes it, after a decade of trying.
• People Magazine: Couple Who Welcomed Twins via Embryo Adoption Celebrates Their First Christmas at Home: After years of trying, Mary Leah and Rodney Miller were thrilled to welcome twins last December. Their children, born two days before Christmas via embryo adoption, are now celebrating their first birthday — and their first Christmas at home.
• 1819 News: Birmingham family thankful for embryo adoption — ‘How sweet God has been’ – One Alabama family is especially grateful this Thanksgiving after receiving two little gifts from God almost a year ago.
• WTJM 4: New Berlin family reflects on successful embryo adoption – November is National Adoption Month. Many of us are familiar with traditional domestic and international adoptions that take place after birth. However, families can adopt embryos.
• WVTM 13: Mountain Brook couple grows family through embryo adoption – While the holidays can be a joyous time for families, it can be difficult for those struggling with infertility. If that’s you, a Mountain Brook couple wants to offer up hope.
• Christianity Today: Frozen Embryos Are the New Orphan Crisis – More than a million unused IVF embryos are in cryostorage. Are they the next pro-life frontier?
• First Time Parent: I Can Adopt an Embryo?: There are now well over 1,000,000 frozen human embryos in the United States. The Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program was established 25 years ago. The purpose was to empower people who no longer plan to use their embryos to choose the families who could adopt their embryos and give them life!
• Axios: Embryo “adoption”: IVF off-shoot gains popularity – A lesser-known fertility option is gaining traction: using donor embryos. Embryo adoption is the term a number of embryo donor services primarily in Christian circles use to describe transferring the extra frozen embryo cells of an IVF patient to an individual or couple.
• The Philadelphia Inquirer: With perseverance and a little help, a baby – Snowflakes’ “placing families” choose the adoptive parents, then those parents can say yes or no to the match.
• PBS The Whitney Reynolds Show: Blended Families – Josh and Donna welcomed Whitney Reynolds into their home to talk about their journey through the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program.
• Infertile AF: Mary Leah and Rodney Miller – Mary Leah and Rodney Miller spent 10 long years trying to build their family. Today, Ali talks to the couple about how they met, how Mary Leah was told that her eggs were not viable and that she’d likely never be able to get pregnant; and their ultimate decision to pursue embryo adoption. Mary Leah and Rodney talk about the effect infertility had on their marriage, how at certain points they had different paths in mind, but how they both felt excited when it was suggested that they connect with Snowflakes Embryo Adoptions to adopt one family’s embryos. They also talk about getting matched with a family, why using donor eggs was not the correct path for them, how their faith came into play, and how twins Dalton and Mary Elizabeth were born in December 2022.

• KETV 7 Omaha: Frozen embryo adoption helps Omaha couple become parents – An adoption agency is helping to build families in a unique way, by adopting out leftover frozen embryos from families who are finished growing their families after infertility treatments. Nightlight Christian Adoptions, operating in ten states and worldwide, celebrated a milestone recently, with more than 1,000 babies born through their Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program.

• Insider: After 7 years of trying to get pregnant, I had twins through embryo donation. I wish we had known about it earlier. – Rodney and Mary Leah Miller couldn’t conceive naturally. After six rounds of failed IVF, they learned about embryo donation through friends. They now have twins through embryo donation and wish they had known about it sooner.

• ABC 3340: Embryo adoption helps Birmingham couple grow their family after battling infertility – Mary Leah and Rodney welcomed twins, Dalton and Mary Elizabeth, on December 23, 2022, but their family’s journey actually started ten years prior.
• Scripps News: Embryo donations on the rise as an infertility treatment option – Embryo donation is an option available to people facing infertility. The Blairs got their embryos through an organization called Snowflakes Embryo Adoption.
• WVTM 13: Infertility Awareness Week – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Conceiving a child is a struggle for many families here in Birmingham. One family overcoming those issues. This is all thanks to one program called the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption.

• Legal Reader: Won’t Somebody Think of the Children? – Frozen embryos exist in a strange place, between property and personhood, bridging the future and the laws of the past.

• Yes!FM Radio: Interview with Rodney & Mary Leah: Rodney & Mary Leah speak with Yes!FM Radio in Toledo Ohio about their experience through the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program, and their babies Dalton and Mary Elizabeth, Snowflakes Babies #1,000 & #1,001!

• The Adoption Connection Podcast: The World’s First Embryo Adoptee Comes Full Circle – Hannah Strege is the first adopted frozen embryo in the world, adopted through the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption program at Nightlight Christian Adoptions. She shares the importance of adoptees knowing their origin story, how she navigates her open adoption, and how adoption impacts her identity.
• The Cheyenne Post: Embryo Adoption Agency Celebrates 1,000th Birth – NCA Snowflakes® Embryo Adoption, the only accredited embryo adoption program in the world, has announced the one-thousandth birth of a child resulting from the agency’s efforts to match donated frozen embryos with adopting families.
• The Federalist: There’s Only One Way For The 1 Million Embryos Stuck In Frozen Orphanages To Make It Out Alive: Adoption – ‘We believe that life begins at conception, and so we believe that each of those little frozen lives is a human being that deserves an opportunity to be born.’
• Public Discourse: Lives in Limbo: A Case for Embryo Adoption – Scripture and tradition tell us something astonishing about our embryonic brothers and sisters currently being kept in frozen storage: they are a vulnerable population that perhaps demands our attention the most. Indeed, embryo adoption appears to be smack-dab in the center of the demands of the Gospel.
• CNN: Parents welcome twins from embryos frozen 30 years ago – Born on October 31, Lydia and Timothy Ridgeway were born from what may be the longest-frozen embryos to ever result in a live birth, according to the National Embryo Donation Center.
• Informed Pregnancy Project: Embryo Adoption Journey by Ashley and Justin – “God bless my wife, then came the hard part. The embryos arrived at the clinic and our doctor began the workup with injections and tests. It was a whirlwind of emotions but with guidance from our doctor, all went as planned. A few short weeks later we were ready for our transfer.”
• Fox 19 NOW: “Snowflakes” is an accredited embryo adoption program from Nightlight Christian Adoptions – Chris and Kari Stewart discuss their adoption journey through the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program.
• Mid-Atlantic Media: “I wanted to be a blessing…” – Embryo adoption provides new route to parenthood. Written by by Gina Gallucci-White.
• Rainbow Babies Unite: Jenni and Keith share their story of hope through embryo adoption/donation – Embryo adoption is such an amazing way for families who may not be able to conceive naturally or can’t do IVF on their own. It is not a very well-known option for those suffering from infertility, but it has been slowly gaining in popularity.

• Thinking about adoption? Why not consider adopting frozen embryos – Over the past 45 years, in vitro fertilization has given many couples trying to conceive the opportunity to have a family. But that process has also created another problem: millions of frozen embryos.

• The Adoption Connection: An Embryo Adoption Story with Rachel Bell – Most of know about adoption through foster care or private, infant adoption. But what do you know about embryo adoption? Rachel and her husband, Evan, have four children who all joined their family through adoption. Their youngest son joined their family through embryo adoption.

• The Christian Post: Over 900 babies born through Christian agency’s embryo adoption program – A Christian adoption agency’s embryo adoption program has led to the birth of hundreds of babies as the practice of embryo adoption and donation remains a contentious issue, even among Christians.
• Embryo Adoption – A Unique Option – Like many couples, from the start of our marriage we shared the dream of having children. Tim frequently joked that he wanted 2.5 kids (the national average). My younger brother had been adopted from Russia so adoption was always part of our discussion for building a family as well. What we didn’t know was how a unique type of adoption would play a role in our lives.
• Couple pursued pregnancy through embryo adoption – It is estimated that between 10-15% of couples struggle with infertility. After trying to conceive and failing, these couples often seek methods like in vitro fertilization, (IVF) or look into adoption. A local couple used a different option.
• St. Louis Area Family Shares Story as Embryo Adoption Gains Popularity – Their youngest daughter Jewel was adopted as an embryo. The embryo was frozen for four years before the McCalls went through the process of adoption with the help of Snowflakes Embryo Adoption, part of Nightlight Christian Adoptions.
• Abortion Bans May Add to Uncertainty – Kelli and Dan Gassman with their children, Aubrey and Trevor, in 2018. Chris and Rebecca Henderson, with their children, Rachelle, Abigail and Johanna. All of the children are genetic siblings, though they have different families. Some researchers and lawyers are worried that laws banning abortion could affect embryo donation.
• Couple Welcomes Twins from 20 Year Frozen Embryos – Father’s Day can be a wonderful celebration for families, but also a tough day for people struggling with infertility. Embryo Adoption is a newer path to parenthood that is gaining in popularity.
• Embryo Adoption More Cost Effective Than IVF – It’s an option for couples struggling with infertility that’s been around for decades, but embryo adoption is still relatively unheard of even though it’s among the more affordable options.
• Ohio couple finds success with embryo adoption after 20 years of infertility issues – Their son, Ben, is 2 years old, and the family is still growing. Jennifer Roshon is 20 weeks pregnant, and she is thrilled to soon be a mom of two, even if it is happening later in life than she expected.
• The Oregonian: As embryo donation gains popularity in Oregon, parents grapple with complicated questions – Roost’s son started out as a frozen embryo. But his embryo wasn’t created using his mother’s egg. His embryo was donated to Roost by a couple in Oregon who had done IVF and were finished having children of their own.
• Murfreesboro woman’s unique journey to motherhood – In 2016, King met her husband, David. They got married in 2018. Jenny, 41 at the time, was open with her husband that due to her age and medical history, she probably wouldn’t be able to have children.
• Alaska’s News Source: After failed fertility treatments, a Kodiak couple adopted an embryo – As in vitro fertilization becomes more widespread, the number of spare embryos rises. Giving birth with donated embryos is becoming more popular, especially among couples who are struggling with infertility but still want to experience parenthood.
• Spectrum News 1: Texas families turn to alternative methods to have children as birthrates decline and pregnancy-related mortality increases – The Austin couple call their five-year-old daughter Ave a miracle. Tami carried her in her uterus and gave birth to her, but Ave is not their biological child. The Kagys adopted her embryo.
• Love & Mother Podcast: National Infertility Awareness Week – Snowflake Adoption: Learn more about ‘snowflake’ adoption with Nightlight Christian Adoptions and the very first family created by this method of adoption!
• Ohio couple finds success with embryo adoption after 20 years of infertility issues – The Roshons are a happy family of three. Their son, Ben, is 2 years old, and the family is still growing. Jennifer Roshon is 20 weeks pregnant, and she is thrilled to soon be a mom of two, even if it is happening later in life than she expected.

• Kimberly Tyson: Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program – Kimberly Tyson, Program Director for Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program, joins us to share about a unique Embryo Adoption Program.

• NKY couple forms family from rare embryo procedure at UC Health – A Northern Kentucky couple who once thought they would never be able to have children is now a family of four thanks to a procedure that’s still fairly uncommon.

• Four Kids. No Infertility. But Why Not Me? – Embryo adoption is not just an infertility treatment. It’s a calling. In this season two kickoff episode of The Embryo Adoption Podcast, you’ll meet Alex and Candice. They chose embryo adoption through the National Embryo Donation Center even though they already had several children and never encountered fertility problems.
• Cision: First Brief at U.S. Supreme Court by a Formerly Frozen Embryo, Hannah S., now age 22, Argues Roe v. Wade Should Be Overturned, according to her attorney Allan Parker
• WSFA 12 News: Embryo frozen for over 5 years becomes Auburn couple’s bundle of joy – Just when the Hendersons’ felt like they were running out of options, they stumbled upon the National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC) website. The center offers what’s known as embryo adoption.
• The Adoption Law Firm Podcast: Our Embryo Adoption Story | Dr. Chris and Lee Ann Duggar – Sam and Mary Beth McLure chat with Dr. Chris and Lee Ann Duggar about their experience and success with embryo adoption.  Dr. Chris and Lee Ann are a loving couple who wanted to grow their family, but were having a difficult time getting pregnant.  In the process of growing their family naturally, they were also open to adoption.  The adoption option that interested them the most was embryo adoption.

• CBS Austin: Austin couple braves winter storm for embryo transfer, shares full journey on Mother’s Day – It’s been nearly three months since February’s winter storm and while many are still coping with the aftermath, one Austin woman is celebrating for the good that came when the storm hit. Karin Baker is now a soon-to-be mother after having an embryo transfer the second day of the winter storm.

• Today: ‘It’s unbelievable’: Mom delivers baby from 27-year-old frozen embryo – Molly is believed to have set a new record for the longest-frozen embryo to have resulted in a birth, according to the National Embryo Donation Center and research staff at the University of Tennessee Preston Medical Library in Knoxville.

 

• WBIR 10 News: National Embryo Donation Center celebrates thousandth embryo birth – According to the National Embryo Donation Center, the birth of Emmie Sue Brookhart is the 1,000th baby born from an embryo from their center. It is a milestone they believe they are the first center in the world to reach.

• Pregnantish: Why It’s Important For Me To Donate My Embryos – I marvel at the idea that I can give this gift to a childless couple who desire a baby as deeply as I once believed I did.

• UC Health Patient Stories: Infertility and Embryo Adoption – How the worst time in life became the best time for Kari and Chris Stewart.

• Think Biblically: Snowflake Babies and Embryo Adoption with The Strege Family – You may not realize it, but couples wanting to adopt a child can actually adopt embryos that have been put up for adoption by the couples who conceived them through advanced reproductive technology. The very first person in the world who was adopted as an embryo is current Biola student, Hannah Strege.

• iChooseLife Radio: A Snowflakes Named Hannah – The Strege family detailed their experiences as the first family to complete an embryo adoption

• The Daily Citizen: The Story of a Snowflake Named Hannah – The Battle Over Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Part Two – The Streges, John and Marlene, were the first family in the United States to adopt embryos from another family and have their daughter, Hannah, but little did they know that this act would result in their family becoming one of the most public voices against the embryonic stem cell research movement.

• The Daily Citizen: The Story of a Snowflake Named Hannah – The Origin of Embryo Adoption: Part One – In the book A Snowflake Named Hannah, John Strege tells the story of how he and his wife became the first couple in the country to adopt embryos from another family. Through this adoption, the couple had their daughter, Hannah, and paved the way for other couples to complete their families.

• The World and Everything in it: Listening In – The Strege Family – John and Marlene Strege were struggling with infertility more than 20 years ago. They thought about in vitro fertilization but decided that there were moral and ethical problems with that approach. They considered adoption too, but their study of in vitro fertilization caused them to realize that there were more than a million human embryos frozen, essentially in limbo. They decided to adopt one of those embryos.

• Life Issues Institute: Lives Yet to Be Lived – The birth of Hannah Strege is recorded in history books and has been the subject of university ethics classes.  She was the world’s first adopted frozen embryo. Hannah’s origin changed the landscape of possibilities regarding adoption.

• BreakPoint: Meet Hannah Strege, America’s First “Snowflake Baby” – The Strege family joins John on the BreakPoint Podcast to tell their remarkable story, discuss the ethical crisis in the fertility industry, and the need for Christians to support the adoption of these tiny lives frozen in our nation’s laboratories.

• Lutherans for Life: Our Embryo Adoption Journey – I never thought in a million years I would be pregnant with an adopted baby. That changed three years ago. My husband and I were struggling to conceive, so we went to an adoption meeting. When we learned about embryo adoption, we both were immediately intrigued.

• WEAU 13 News: Couple becomes parents thanks to embryo adoption – “We were crushed, it was like adding insult to injury, we were still struggling with the heartbreak of a miscarriage,” Kelly said. “Then when you add infertility on top of it, and it is the deepest, darkest, saddest thing I’ve ever gone through.” Then, Kelly learned of a process called embryo adoption.

• Dr. Berlin’s Informed Pregnancy Podcast: Embryo Adoption – Lynette Weaver – Can a forty-year-old virgin who hasn’t done IVF really be in her third trimester of pregnancy? Childbirth educator doula and soon-to-be mom joins us to talk about the options, process, and experience of embryo adoption as well as her plans for childbirth and motherhood.

• Intercessors for America: February First Friday Prayer Call with guest Dr. Dobson – President Dave Kubal interviews Cara Vest, mother of two Snowflake Babies and Dr. James Dobson.

• Dr. James Dobson’s Family Talk Radio: A Snowflake Named Hannah 2 – All life, from the moment of conception to natural death, is created in the very image of God Almighty. On this broadcast, Dr. Dobson continues his conversation with John, Marlene, and Hannah Strege, the first family involved in a ‘snowflake adoption.’ They discuss their legal and societal advocacy for frozen embryos and the growing awareness of this cause within the pro-life movement.

• Dr. James Dobson’s Family Talk Radio: A Snowflake Named Hannah 1 – The month of January highlights the truth that all human life is sacred. On this broadcast, Dr. Dobson talks with a family who has been advocating for the pro-life movement for over 20 years. John and Marlene Strege were the first couple to adopt a frozen embryo, a process now called ‘snowflake adoption.’ Hear their fascinating testimony and their daughter Hannah’s perspective of her unique origins.

• The Federalist: While IVF Is Allowed To Create Millions Of Frozen Embryos, Those Babies Need Adoption – Embryo adoption allows children who otherwise would not be born to become part of a chosen, loving, permanent adopting family.

• More To Life Magazine: Building Families through Faith – Infertility issues put up a roadblock that became navigable only when we chose to walk by faith. Embryo adoption, an option that had never been considered before until my wife Marlene suddenly broached the idea, eventually provided us a daughter, Hannah, who recently turned 21.

• 7 News Boston: 7 Investigates: Frozen Family – It took nine years of trying, and 3 months in a Florida hospital, and a crucial contribution from two strangers in Massachusetts.

• NBC 10 News Knoxville: Fertility Part Two: Embryo Adoption – The days are long, and exhausting and amazing for one local family, but the Laceys don’t see chaos, they see pure joy!

• KMOX News Radio: From the freezer to the womb; the option of embryo adoption – The Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program started in 1997 and was the first of its kind. Snowflake babies are frozen embryos adopted and born the natural way.

• ABC News: PrimeTime: Embryo Adoption – The Grays did not like any of the options for their remaining embryos. They wanted to know their offspring would be well taken care of, and they wanted to find parents who were college-educated Christians married for at least seven years. The Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program in California helped them find Cara and Greg Vest, who would adopt the embryos, and then give birth to the Gray’s genetic children.

• World Magazine: A Chance at Life – Embryo adoptions are increasingly popular thanks in part to a government grant created by an unlikely senator

• Refuge Radio: An Interview with Dan & Nicole of Nightlight Christian Adoptions – An interview with Refuge Radio about Nightlight Christian Adoptions and the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program.

• The Christian Post: The complicated legal rights of embryos as infertility grows – Embryo adoption is emerging as a new frontier in the world of adoption. Adoptive mothers can carry and birth an embryo that’s not biologically their own, giving life to the embryos that are filling up fertility clinic freezers.

• Ozarks First: Family struggling with infertility prepares for embryo adoption – It’s been about 10 years since Nick and Amanda Polking first tried to start a family. After visiting the doctor, they spent a year trying to track down why it wasn’t working. They were diagnosed with unexplained infertility. The Polking’s were surprised to learn about another way to grow their family.

• Knoxville WBIR TV-10: East Tennessee doctors working to curb national embryo abandonment nationwide – Dr. John Gordon said the National Embryo Donation Center in Farragut has precautions that make abandoning embryos harder. But nationally, it still poses a big issue.

• WDJT Milwaukee – The Eggleton’s knew they still had more than a dozen embryos and were faced with few choices. They could keep the embryos frozen, donate them to science, or put them up for adoption. And that’s where the Schneiders came in.

• Eric Metaxas Show – we sat down with own with Eric Metaxas at the National Religious Broadcasters International Christian Media Convention and share with him Nate Birt and his families story of adopting a baby through embryo adoption.

• Bill Martinez Live – Nate Birt’s shares his journey with embryo adoption at the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) International Christian Media Convention.

• WSOC Charlotte – Local couple Scott and Leigh Foster were in their 40s, trying for their third baby and struggling with fertility issues when Leigh said she set her heart on embryo adoption.

• TAB: Birt Family Adds A Daughter Through Embryo Adoption – The Birts found options to help embryos who are currently in storage nationwide.

• The Kansan: A different path – After struggling with infertility for years, a Whitewater couple is going to become parents in an uncommon way: through embryo adoption.

• we are GREEN BAY: Embryo adoption allows adoptive mothers to experience pregnancy – Tina Van Egeren, RN is a Donor Coordinator at Aurora Baycare Medical center who works with families to assist them through the embryo adoption process.

• Cleveland.com: Are frozen embryos ‘living persons’? Couple in UH fertility case seeks appellate court ruling based on modern science – Forty-six years after the landmark Roe vs. Wade court decision, advances in biomedical science and in vitro technology have had an impact on how many view the legal status of frozen embryos.

• The New York Times: Embryo ‘Adoption’ Is Growing, but It’s Getting Tangled in the Abortion Debate – As I.V.F. becomes more widespread and the number of spare embryos rises, giving birth with donated embryos is becoming more popular, especially among couples who oppose abortion and are struggling with infertility.

• Pickler & Ben: The Amazing Story of a 24-Year-Old Embryo – In November 2017, Ben and Tina’s daughter Emma was born as the result of a frozen embryo transfer. She was originally frozen in October 1992, just a year after her mom Tina was born! Emma broke the world record as the longest frozen embryo at 24 years!

• Indiana University: Scott & Sophie Wallace – Indiana University alum Scott and Sophie Wallace discuss their journey as parents going through the embryo adoption process through the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program.

• Daily Mail: Miracle twins born 15 years apart – Meet the three sets of twins, aged 6 months to 15 years, who were all conceived on the same day in 2002 – Marie and Randy Johnson of Bloomington, MN sought help conceiving a child and donated the other embryos to the National Embryo Donation Center.

• The Federalist: Why Parents Should Be Able To Adopt The 700,000 Frozen Embryos IVF Has Left Behind – With her entire being, she told me that she was no longer a faceless statistic. She is a real person who has been freed from years in a frozen prison.

• 10 WAVY: Va. Beach couple opens up about their journey with embryo adoption – Before she was in her mother’s womb and long before her parents held her for the very first time, Maisie Stromberg spent nearly nine years frozen as an embryo.

• Networking Today International: NTi Global Podcast With Guest Kimberly Tyson – An interview with Nightlight Christian Adoptions’ Kimberly Tyson, the director of the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program.

• 16 WAPT News: Embryo adoption gains popularity among those struggling to conceive – Infertility affects as many as one in every six couples. In vitro fertilization doesn’t work for everyone, but an option that is growing in popularity is embryo adoption.

• Focus on Fertility: Using Embryo Adoption as an Option – In this episode of Focus on Fertility we’ll speak with a couple, Nate & Julie, who recently completed the use of embryo adoption to help in completing their family. Are you aware of embryo adoption as an option that might be right for you? If not or if you are curious about the processes and timeline involved, this episode will be informative and helpful for you.

• Focus on Fertility: Embryo Adoption – This week we are joined by program director, Kimberly Tyson, of Snowflakes Embryo Adoption. What is embryo adoption? Is it the right path for you? What are the processes involved? What are the costs? All of these questions and more are answered. Additionally, if you are someone who may have frozen embryos in storage and looking for an option regarding them, adopting them to another family maybe a solution.

• 94.1 The Voice: Live Morning Drive with Doug Hardy – Doug is joined over the phone by Kimberly Tyson, Director of the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program at Nightlight Christian Adoptions. Nightlight is a national organization that facilitates domestic and international adoptions, foster-adoption, home studies, and embryo adoption. Learn more about the organization, their embryo adoption program, Snowflakes, and adoption from foster care.

• WFMY News: Conceived At The Same Time, But Born Years Apart – A Dublin couple, faced with male infertility, used embryo adoption to complete their family.

• Reporter: Love for the least of these – Hannah Strege is a 19-year-old college freshman with a brilliant smile, big dreams of becoming a social worker — and an origin story that’s kept her in the public spotlight since she was no bigger than a grain of sand.

• WVEC 13 News Now: Families united by shared embryo – Mother’s Day is this Sunday. The usual gifts are flowers or candy, but what about a gift of an embryo?

• Your Family Now: Waterloo family grows family via embryo adoption – Travis and Annette Wells knew before they were married that they wanted children. They also knew there were fertility issues that would require them to look at different ways to grow their family.

• KATV Little Rock: Embryo adoption brings Alexander couple the family they always wanted – Brian and Ashley Baird struggled for years trying to get pregnant. They didn’t know if becoming parents would be a possibility for them, until they learned of embryo adoption.

• WKBW Buffalo: Frozen for nine years: The story of one WNY infant – One-year-old Oliver is a happy, healthy baby, but his story is very different from other infants.  In fact, Oliver was frozen for nine years before his embryo was thawed and donated to his parents, Janeen and Dave Hergert.

• Babble: Couple Takes Embryos on a “Family Adventure”–and We Can’t Get Enough – The Clarks took their embryos on a real-world adventure, filled with all the photo-worthy moments they’d capture with a child after he or she was born – and honestly, people, these photos are golden.

• KTAB News: Abilene couple shares journey to embryo adoption – This Texas family has been blessed with identical twin daughters as a result of their use of donated embryos through their fertility clinic. In the story you will hear them refer to their ‘embryo adoption’. This is not a story of embryo adoption because no best practices of adoption were used by this family nor by their clinic. Families have been able to receive donated embryos from a fertility clinic for 30+ years, and many children have been born as a result!