Taking a new direction

We let the whole embro adoption thing rest for a week or two...until we received an email notice from Embryos Alive (another embryo adoption place) about some embryos that came up for adoption. This was a place we looked at when we first decided to explore embryo adoption. It is basically a matching website between donors and adoptors. Adoptors can put their profiles on the site and their specifice criteria for adoptors. For example, they donors might only be willing to donate to families that have no children or are a specific religion. Email notices are then sent out to potential adoptors and if the potential adoptors are interested in those particular embryos, they can have their profile submitted to the donors for consideration. A fee is paid to Embryos Alive for the matching service when a match between donor and adoptor is made and then you basically have to navigate all the medical IVF stuff yourself. One of the main reasons we went with NEDC is because everything is taken care of from matching to pregnancy. The down side of that program is having to fly down to Tennessee for transfers and consultations. So, like I said, the door to NEDC was tightly closed, and this door through Embryos Alive may be opening.

We talked a few times with the woman who runs this matching service and she seems like a wonderful Christian lady. She is helpful, keeps us up to date on where things are at, and even asked Ken what she could specifically pray for for us! In talking with her, she said there was another couple who lives in Minnesota that adopted through Embryos Alive (EA) and they had a baby! I was able to speak with this lady about her experience with EA and after talking with her, it gave me great peace of mind. Not only was it a positive experience for her and her husband, but they have already navigated through the medical system in Minnesota and had the transfer done in a local Minneapolis fertility clinic. How great would that be, not to mention the cost savings, if we could do all the medical stuff right in our own backyard! It is going to be so amazing to look back and see how God wove this whole thing together...for our good and His glory.

Ken feels very strongly about wanting to adopt embryos and he was interested in 3 particular embryos. So we submitted our profile to the donors. We haven't heard final word yet, but we believe they chose someone else to donate their embryos to. Those donors are making the final decision this week. As it should turn out though, there have been several notices regarding new donors and we are submitting our profile to another family if this one is turned down. So as of yet, how this story unfolds, is still unknown.