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Gift Ideas for Those Facing Infertility
Infertility can feel isolating, especially when the friends and family around seem to be oblivious to your sadness and frustration. Couples and individuals struggling with infertility often just want to know someone cares. They want to know we are thinking of them, hoping with them, and believing along with them.
Embryo Donation: We Got So Much More
Donating our remaining embryos is one of the best decisions we made in our lives. I encourage anyone struggling with the decision to choose embryo donation!
Seven Ways to Incorporate Adoption into Your Thanksgiving Traditions
This Thanksgiving season, we invite you to start an annual adoption tradition! Join us this Thanksgiving and National Adoption Month as we recognize family and celebrate ways they have influenced our lives.
Benefits of Embryo Adoption Education
Take a minute to consider how the required education, focused specifically on an embryo adoption, has numerous benefits to all parties involved in your adoption—the adopting parents, the adopted child, and even the donor family.
How to Find Your Child’s Anonymous Donor
If you are thinking of receiving embryos that were donated anonymously, or if you already have, your child will more than likely have future curiosity about their genetic family. Maybe they have already asked you questions you are not sure how to answer.
A Celebration of Embryo Donors!
Families who longed for the laughter of a child in their home found their answer in embryo adoption. Of course, this would not be possible without the amazing individuals who choose become embryo donors.
Embryo Adoption: Joy, Sadness, Loss, and HOPE
We first learned about embryo adoption and the Snowflakes Program in June 2017. The more and more I read and researched, I knew this was the adoption choice for us.
Five Reasons an Open Adoption isn’t ‘Scary’
Even though open adoption is extremely common in the United States today (95% are open!), the idea still has many new perspective adoptive parents running for the hills. However, studies have shown this adoption model is much more beneficial for all parties involved. This is especially true for families considering embryo adoption.
Designated vs. Anonymous Embryo Donation
Embryo donation and adoption is a process where one family donates their leftover embryos to another who are unable to conceive naturally. There are two types of embryo donation: designated and anonymous. We will discuss the differences between these two types to help you determine which option is the best for you.
Weird State Laws about Embryo Donation and Adoption
Many states have laws in place to regulate embryo donation; some still have very unusual, bizarre, or downright archaic laws surrounding the practice.
Embryo Donation: Difficult, but Grateful
Each step of the process, from deciding to donate our embryos to ultimately learning of the birth of baby boy, has been full of lots of emotions. However, the overwhelming feeling we have is one of gratitude and joy.
Top Three Concerns about Embryo Donation
Having remaining embryos after you have finished building your family may not be something you were prepared to face. Many questions may come up as a family is deciding whether to donate remaining embryos.
PCOS & Embryo Adoption
PCOS is a condition where a woman does not make enough of the hormones needed to ovulate. This can cause an array of symptoms including small cysts to form, problems with the menstrual cycle, and in some cases, issues with fertility.
Exploring the Basics of Embryo Donation
If you have finished building your family, but still have remaining embryos, embryo donation is an option you can consider!
Embryo Adoption: Bigger Than Us
In November 2020, the words “We have a Match” popped up in my inbox. With butterflies in our stomachs, we read that a family had chosen us for their eight remaining embryos! I was so nervous to look at their profile that I asked my husband to read it first. I will never forget the look on his face after he read their letter.