For over 27 years, the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program has assisted families in achieving their dreams of pregnancy, parenthood, and family. We believe that every embryo deserves a chance for the life for which it was created.

There are many distinctive aspects of the Snowflakes Program: encouraging open relationships between donating and adoptive families, personalized matching services, an extensive network of referral fertility clinics, and our experienced, professional team.

Snowflakes has no hidden fees and offers a comprehensive embryo adoption management plan. If adoption fees are a financial hardship, review some of the resources at the Funding Your Embryo Adoption link above, or consider applying for a Nightlight Foundation Grant.

Payments must be made in full prior to initiating the next phase of the program.

*There are two variable costs not included in the $8,500.00 Snowflakes Program fee: your home study/family evaluation and your frozen embryo transfer and fertility clinic costs. 

For over 27 years, the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program has assisted families in achieving their dreams of pregnancy, parenthood, and family. Here is a list of 50 benefits you will experience working with Snowflakes.

If you choose Snowflakes for your embryo adoption process, you will receive:

• Expert support from the Snowflakes team
• Personalized, hands-on matching services (no AI nor computer generated matches)
• In-house legal services
• Fertility clinic communication and coordination during your entire embryo adoption process
• FDA compliance and required infectious disease testing for embryo donors
• Mediated communication with your matched family during the adoption process
• Robust embryo database from which to match (with more embryos being added each week!)
• ...and much more!

Please note: The Snowflakes fee includes three match reviews of embryo donor families. There may be additional fees for requests of additional matches, re-matches, or returning embryos to the program. Please speak with a Snowflakes Inquiry Specialist to learn more.

Snowflakes follows the best practices of adoption. Every adoption requires the completion of a pre-adoptive assessment, often referred to as a home study. We believe adoptive families, placing families, and children benefit and are protected by the evaluation process. After all, children are adopted, not donated.

If you do not already have a completed and valid home study, Snowflakes will complete a Snowflakes Family Evaluation for you. This service is available in all 50 states and internationally, and consists of assessment and educational components, along with personal meetings with a Nightlight provider and various background checks. This process usually takes about two to three months to complete and is typically faster and less expensive than a home study. Adoptive families receive the education necessary for success in raising adopted children and communicating their child’s unique adoption journey in an appropriate and loving manner.

Talk to us if you have a valid and current home study and we can determine if you can apply it towards your embryo adoption.

The adoptive family's FET will be performed at one of our fertility clinics from our preferred referral network.

• The Snowflakes referral fertility clinic network includes over 40 clinics located throughout the U.S. These facilities understand our mission as an embryo adoption program and assist our adoptive families as patients in any capacity that they can. By having a referral network, adoptive families move more quickly through their embryo adoption process.
• Having a set network of fertility clinics ensures our adoptive families experience a safe, professional, and friendly transfer cycle, which is a critical part of the embryo adoption experience.
• At this time, we are not able to coordinate nor ship embryos to fertility clinics outside of our preferred network.

To learn more about Snowflakes referral fertility clinic locations, please contact our office to speak with one of our Snowflakes Adopting Parent Inquiry Specialists.

The cost of an FET ranges from $4,000 to $10,000, which may or may not include the cost of the medication needed for cycle preparation. This cost is determined by the fertility clinic. Please direct all questions regarding fees to your referral clinic of choice and ask them to clearly explain any additional/optional costs you may incur.

We would also encourage you to contact health insurance provider to see if any of your frozen embryo transfer expenses will be covered by your health plan.

There are resources available that can help with the cost of your FET. Check out the Funding Your Embryo Adoption webpage to learn more.

It is possible to make your embryo adoption journey affordable. Snowflakes and Nightlight Christian Adoptions will help you explore all the options available to you.

Many Snowflakes adoptive families have funded the majority of their adoption and medical expenses through grants, scholarships, and fundraising. Nightlight has a family resource specialist on staff who is an expert in assisting families in finding financial assistance for their adoption.

Snowflakes has created an adoption funding excel workbook that can be downloaded for free below. There are multiple tabs at the bottom of this file that will help you plan as you identify embryo adoption focused grants and loans to apply for. You will need to consider adoption focused grants for agency costs and infertility treatment based grants for your Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET). 

AdoptionBridge is a crowdfunding website where you can post about your embryo adoption story, pictures, and videos and keep friends and family informed about your journey. Donations made to your AdoptionBridge account are applied directly to your Snowflakes fees. Set up your page today: www.AdoptionBridge.org