Snowflakes in the Media

Since pioneering the first embryo donation and adoption program in 1997, Snowflakes is often mentioned in the media as a topic of discussion and as an informational resource. Scroll down for a complete list of stories. If you would like to make a media inquiry, please contact Kimberly in our Colorado offices.
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I Can Adopt an Embryo?

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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!

Frozen embryo adoption helps Omaha couple become parents

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OMAHA, Neb. — 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 […]

After 7 years of trying to get pregnant, I had twins through embryo donation. I wish we had known about it earlier.

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Rodney and Mary Leah Miller couldn't conceive naturally. After six rounds of failed IVF, they learned about embryo adoption through friends. They now have twins (Snowflakes Babies #1,000 & #1,001) through embryo adoption and wish they had known about it sooner. 

Denver7 ABC News

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Embryo Adoption is more cost-effective IVF treatment. 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. Elizabeth and Marty Wilson chose embryo adoption and couldn’t be happier. Get the full story at Denver7 abcNEWS.

KMOV4 St. Louis

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St. Louis-area family shares story as embryo adoption gains popularity “We feel we’re the most blessed parents in the world, we have four amazing kids,” said Victoria McCall. But 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 […]

Alaska's News Source

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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

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Texas families turn to alternative methods to have children as birthrates decline and pregnancy-related mortality increases - An 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.

UC Health Patient Stories

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Infertility and Embryo Adoption: Chris and Kari, like many couples facing infertility, have followed a very interesting path to parenthood and also to help others who want to pursue embryo adoption.  They worked with a Snowflakes partner clinic in Cincinnati, OH for both their frozen embryo transfers and their egg donation. We think you will […]

Think Biblically

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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 […]

The Daily Citizen

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The Battle Over Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Part 2: 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 […]

The Daily Citizen

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The Origin of Embryo Adoption, Part 1: 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 […]

Life Issues Institute

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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

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The Strege family joins John today 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

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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.

Answers in Genesis

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Are Embryos People? - Many people now use various fertility procedures to have a baby. Sadly, many of the embryos that are created are either destroyed or left in storage for years. But now, many Christians are adopting those embryos—and it saves lives!

The Federalist

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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

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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.

The Christian Post

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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

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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 […]

we are GREEN BAY: Embryo adoption allows adoptive mothers to experience pregnancy

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Tina Van Egeren, RN is a Donor Coordinator at Aurora Baycare Medical center. Her role as a donor coordinator is to work closely with the physician and the patients to assist them throughout the whole embryo adoption process. She works with agencies to ensure that embryos are safe and treated with quality care. Learn more […]

Answers in Genesis

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Ken Ham's Blog: Do Embryo Adoptions “Give Too Much Personhood to the Embryo”? We should celebrate snowflake adoptions and the couples who are willing to rescue those babies and welcome them into their family. Every child is precious, made in God’s image, and deserving of life.

The New York Times

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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.

The Federalist

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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.

Focus on Fertility

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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 […]

Focus on Fertility

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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 […]

94.1 The Voice

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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.

Reporter

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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.

KMTV 3 News Now

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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.

The 405 Media

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Columnist Don Feder/1st Snowflake Baby Hannah Strege – The Tami Jackson Show Tami Jackson interviews Hannah Strege, the first Snowflake baby, about her amazing story. Hannah’s interview starts at the 34:00 point of this podcast.

KCTV Channel 5 News

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Embryo adoption gives new hope for families who struggle with infertility Anna and Robert Burnett decided the best choice for them was frozen embryo adoption through Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program. Ian and Emalynn are now middle schoolers who explain to their friends they were adopted as embryos.

World Magazine

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Hope for the unchosen Over the last few years, a handful of physicians in the United States and Europe have reported that embryos deemed abnormal by early tests could still grow into normal pregnancies due to the embryo's ability to "self correct."

Whittier Daily News

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Biola student was first-ever adopted frozen embryo In many ways, Hannah Strege is the typical teenager on the verge of adulthood. The 19-year-old is a college freshman who likes to listen to music, go shopping with her mom and out to the movies — preferably romantic comedies — with friends at the spur of the […]

Pregnantish

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What You Should Know About Embryo Adoption And Donation While the majority of frozen embryos are intended for use by the couples who create them in IVF treatment cycles (either if the first cycle is not successful or if they want additional children), there are thousands that go unused and are potentially available for embryo donation. People pursuing alternative paths to creating a family might consider using donated […]

Biola Magazine

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A Life Preserved - Freshman Hannah Strege is the first person born through frozen embryo adoption Before her birth in December 1998, Hannah Strege was frozen for two years. Conceived in a petri dish, she was preserved as an embryo until she was adopted and given a chance at life.

CNN

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The embryo is just a year younger than the mother who birthed her The longest known frozen human embryo to result in a successful birth was born last month in Tennessee. Emma Wren Gibson, delivered November 25 by Dr. Jeffrey Keenan, medical director of the National Embryo Donation Center, is the result of an embryo originally […]

SOCAL Connected

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'Ethical Dilemmas of Unused Embryos' and 'Patagonia's Workplace Paradise' They’re called maybe babies... nearly a million frozen embryos stored in labs across the nation. They’re at the heart of a daunting decision for thousands couples--and a brave new world for others. Welcome to the newest controversy around creating human life.

CBS Austin

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Central Texas couple gives birth to their adopted children A Central Texas couple has expanded their family twice with the help of embryo adoptions. The process allowed Carrie and Jimmy Nix to give birth to their adopted children.

Fatherly

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Keeping In Touch With Your Erstwhile Embryo The scientists say they were struck by the open communication between donors and recipients. “The people involved in the Snowflakes program have much more information before the pregnancy,” co-author Lucy Frith of the University of Liverpool told Fatherly. “There’s an expectation there will be information exchanged and possibly […]

Loveland Reporter-Herald

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Embryo adoption program celebrates its 'Snowflakes' in Loveland Little Marley Wilson came into being almost 19 years ago, but she just celebrated her first birthday. Sixteen-year-old twins Mark and Luke Borden have three biological siblings who were created the same day they were, but the triplets are 18 months older. That's the kind of mind-bending […]

Loveland Reporter-Herald

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'Snowflake' baby: 'I feel lucky that I was given the chance at life' Hannah Strege, the first person to be adopted as a frozen embryo through the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program, is now 18 years old and is using her unique situation to educate others about the importance of life.

Podcasts.com

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Marty and Elizabeth's Story Marty and Elizabeth chose embryo adoption to expand their family. Another family donated their embryo that was frozen for 18 years! Elizabeth was able to carry the baby full term and gave birth to Marley in June.

Romper

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Embryo "Adoption" Might Provide Another Option For Infertility, But It's Not Perfect Since then, 1,200 couples have donated their embryos, and 500 babies have been born as a result. The program encourages "open adoption" between donors and parents, which is similar to the option given to parents who adopt a baby through an agency.

Daily Mirror UK

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Because when Kelli discovered she was unable to have her own kids, she found an answer to her prayers in the form of Rebecca, who donated her frozen embryos left over from IVF to Kelli – to allow her to have the family she’d always dreamed of.

BBC News

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Popularity of embryo adoption has double in the last 10 years, and BBC News recently published a story about Americans that adopt other people's embryos.

Law of Attraction TV

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Ryan and Kimmi Carlos struggled with infertility before giving birth to their twins in their late 20s. After conceiving and giving birth to another child naturally, the couple decided to donate the embryos remaining from their IVF cycle to another family.

OZY

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Did you know that women over the age of 44 have less than a 4% chance of having a baby successfully through IVF? With a donor embryo, their chances jump to 50-50.

Vox

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This article by Vox explores embryo donation and adoption in details and discusses why more people are trying to get pregnant with donated frozen embryos

Redbook Magazine

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After over a decade of trying to have children, Rebecca Henderson and her husband gave birth to twins through in vitro fertilization. The couple decided that they were done having children, but didn't believe in destroying them or donating them to research. So, they turned to embryo adoption.

The Daily Times

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Brian and Angela Cartledge always wanted to be parents, but after struggling with infertility for years, the couple started to doubt that it would ever happen. The couple discovered Nightlight's Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program, and now they have three toddlers!

Life News

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Inga Wismer has had quite the journey to building her family. She's got a son from her first marriage, as well as two children with her second husband. After two miscarriages and an adoption disruption, the couple decided to try something new – embryo adoption.

CW 33 Dallas

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Mike and Christy Trabun have always had a heart for adoption, and when the couple had trouble conceiving a genetically-related child, they started to explore their options. They discovered embryo adoption, and now have four children.

New York Times

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When it comes to infertility, many couples turn to in vitro fertilization to have children. After completing their family, many couples have remaining embryos. So, they have to make a difficult decision.

Fusion

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Sometimes, embryo adoption leads to a new kind of extended family – one made up of the family that donates their remaining embryos for adoption, and the family that has children from those adopted embryos.

Dothan Eagle

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Kevin and Anna Long had five children – four biological children of their own and an adopted daughter. They thought their family was complete. After a big move from New York to Dothan, Alabama, the couple decided to add to their family, so they started researching options and discovered embryo adoption. That's how their youngest […]

Fox News

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Over the years, embryo adoption has touched the lives of thousands of families. This story from Fox News highlights two families in particular, the Trabuns and Gassmans.

The Stir

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After turning to in vitro fertilization to start their family, the Petersen's gave birth to their first son. Shortly thereafter, they conceived two other children without medical assistance. After some searching, the couple decided to donate three of their remaining embryos to another couple.

NBC 2 Houston

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Natalie and Brandon Champagne knew they would become parents – they just weren't sure how. Brandon had fought leukemia as a child, and they knew it wasn't likely they would be able to have children of their own.

You Get the Blessing

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Kimberly Tyson, Program and Marketing Director at Nightlight, was recently featured on 850 KOA's Sunday morning radio show, You Get the Blessing. She spoke with Biff Gore and Chuck King about Nightlight and it's programs – one of which was the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program.

USA Today

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With their belief that life begins at conception, Chris and Rebecca Henderson paid a few hundred dollars each year to keep their remaining embryos frozen. After their third daughter was born, they decided to donate their remaining embryos to another couple struggling with infertility – Dan and Kelli Gassman. The Gassmans were able to welcome a son and daughter into their family.

CBS National News

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Gina Yasuda and her husband had completed their family, but they had three embryos remaining. Gina's doctors told her about the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program, and the couple signed up. After three years, the Yasuda's discovered the Stephanie and Ben Hawkins – they were the ones.

The Week

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Jeff and Odessa Kershner wanted to add more children to their family. They had always felt the urge to adopt, so after learning that health conditions could be transmitted genetically, the couple decided to adopt.

TheBump.com

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The Bump.com has quickly become a go-to resource for families hoping to have a baby, those who are already pregnant and even those who are new parents. Recently, the information packed site turned its attention to the world of infertility and family building by introducing their 5 million+ monthly visitors to the world of embryo adoption.

CBN News

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CBN, one of the nation’s largest faith based television networks, recently dropped by Nightlight’s California headquarters to learn more about how the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program is making an impact in the lives of families struggling with infertility.

Mom Talk Radio

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Mom Talk Radio, the first nationally syndicated radio show designed for mothers, has quickly become a go to source for moms to receive advice on food, parenting, children and recently even embryo adoption.

CBS 4 Denver

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Stories of how embryo adoption has changed lives are popping up all over the country including Colorado as a local family recently shared their inspirational journey with CBS 4 in Denver.

Family Talk Radio

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Dr. James Dobson has long been a monumental figure in the embryo adoption movement first brining national attention to the Snowflakes Program in the late 1990’s. He revisited the topic again early this year on his popular Family Radio Show.

ABC News

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Charlie and Matt DeVore's story of embryo adoption after infertility started small but grew rapidly. It was first told by a local news station, but quickly spread across the country and finally to ABC News.

Fox News

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Fox News joined the Embryo Adoption Awareness movement early in 2014 featuring the story of Stephanie Hawkins, a woman who turned to Snowflakes after discovering she couldn't have biological children.

Al Jazeera America

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“It was not an option to try to have 14 more (children). But we loved her enough to choose life for her by embryo adoption.” Those are the words of Melissa Eggleton when asked by Al Jazeera News why she chose to donate her remaining embryos to another family.