Snowflakes was created to help families with remaining embryos have choices.

Are you looking to open your heart to embryos in need of a forever home? We are looking for adoptive families for our Open Hearts Program!

It is our belief that placing families should have the opportunity to select the family who receives their embryos.

Snowflakes empowers them to choose a family who has been vetted by the adoption home study, a family they can develop a relationship with over time. After all, they may have children they love and care for today who were likely born from this same set of remaining embryos.

The matching phase of the Snowflakes process first examines the desires of the placing family. Both you and the placing family will discuss with our Snowflakes team the preferences for family matches. You will develop a family profile which will be used to introduce your family to the placing family.

How Are Matches Determined

  • Length of marriage
  • Faith
  • Children in home
  • Financial stability
  • Education
  • Number of desired children
      … and more

The team will review both your preferences and the preferences of our placing families, as well as your fertility clinic's requirements, and determine if a particular family is a good potential match for you. You will receive the placing family’s profile to review.  After you give this family consideration, if you want to move forward, it’s a match! 

When the match is deemed acceptable by both families and is approved by your clinic, you will move into the contracts phase of the process.

Building Relationships

Open adoption relationships may seem scary at first. Almost every new relationship has some elements of uncertainty. Watch and listen to the ways these two families overcame their personal fears and established friendships that will last a lifetime.
“We created our embryos with the intent of giving them life, but we weren’t the ones who would be able to give them life.” Rebecca Henderson, Placing Parent
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