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Top Three Reasons to Become a Dad Using Embryo Adoption

In certain circles of American culture, there persists a misguided notion that fatherhood is somehow incompatible with masculinity. Activities like changing diapers or using a Baby Bjorn are deemed beneath men, sometimes even considered emasculating. Unfortunately, adopting a baby often falls into the category of unacceptable activities for men, and I, too, held such […]

How to Manage and Complete Adoption Paperwork

When my wife and I meet new people, I love explaining what I do for work and the joy I get from helping guide families throughout their adoption process. I love sharing the adoption stories and testimonies of the families we work with, and how each have a personal and unique journey through adoption. […]

What is Secondary Infertility?

This past Wednesday, social media platforms were brimming with photos of siblings, marking National Siblings Day! Many of you likely reminisced about your brothers and sisters, cherishing fond memories. However, for some, the day serves as a reminder that not everyone finds the journey to parenthood, let alone securing a sibling for their child, […]

If Your Embryos Could Talk: Embryo Donation

Hello, hello! Yes, it’s me, your little embryo. Do have a moment to chat? It’s been sometime since you created me, and while I am super happy you did, but I was wondering what your plans are for me. Are you planning to increase your family and bring me into the fold? If not, what […]

God's Greatest Gift

As we enter the Christmas season, there are so many things to be thankful for: the health of living in a bountiful nation, the happiness of having choices, and the hope of what tomorrow will bring. Yet as we ponder these things amongst our daily to do lists, nothing would seem quite as […]

Creating a Life Book For Your Adoptive/Foster Child

Creating Lifebooks for our children is one of those things in life that some parents follow through better than others, like sending out Christmas cards. The desire is there, we’ve pictured the outcome, we understand the appreciation it will bring others, and some have gotten as far as making a Shutterfly account. […]

Embryo Quality: Does It Really Matter?

Medical professionals employ various methods to assess the quality of frozen human embryos, predicting the likelihood of successful pregnancy. Common techniques include Preimplantation Genetic Diagnostic (PGD) and Preimplantation Genetic Screening (PGS) testing. However, studies reveal that these assessments may not always be accurate. Lower-quality embryos, when thawed and transferred, can result in healthy babies, challenging […]

Why Do We Support Open Adoption?

I’ve been working in adoptions long enough to see the significant trend toward open adoptions over the past forty years. I recall sitting in meetings in the 70’ and 80’s with an Adoption Committee in the first agency where I worked doing the matching of birth parents and adoptive parents. Actually it was […]

Is Egg Freezing the Only Solution?

In the world of assisted reproductive technologies, egg freezing serves as a means to safeguard women's future fertility by harvesting mature oocytes, vitrifying them, and storing them for potential use in the future by creating embryos through in vitro fertilization (IVF). The confidence in successfully freezing human eggs has grown only recently among researchers. More women […]

What is an Open Adoption Plan?

Is contact with placing families important in an embryo adoption match? How do you establish an open adoption? The Hendersons and Gassmans are embryo placing and adopting families who were matched through the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program. Listen as the two couples tell their open adoption story and the steps they purposefully made to build […]

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