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Where to Go for Embryo Donation

If you are interested in donating your embryos or having donor embryos transferred, there are several places you can get started.

Embryo Donation through a Fertility Clinic

Many fertility clinics offer embryo donation as an option. Infertility patients who have gone through in vitro fertilization and have "extra" embryos are given the opportunity to anonymously donate their frozen embryos to couples who have made the decision to use donated embryos.

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Embryo Donation

Embryo donation — also known as embryo adoption from the donor embryo recipient's perspective — is a form of third party reproduction in which the embryos that are left over from one couple's in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycle are donated to another person or couple. Generally, there is no compensation for the donor in embryo donation, except for certain expenses such as medical tests, and transferring and thawing embryos.

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Candidates for Embryo Donation

If you’re considering donor embryos, you’ve likely tried various assisted reproductive technologies, undergone hours upon hours of workups, or possibly multiple miscarriages. No matter what you’ve tried, you and your partner’s gametes don’t seem to connect. If you still dream of giving birth, donor embryos may be an option for you.

Is a Donor Embryo Right for You?

Candidates for donor embryo include:

  • Couples in which both partners have untreatable infertility
  • A single woman with untreatable infertility
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Embryo Donation

Source: National Embryo Donation Center
Carol and Luciano have completed their family, and have decided to donate their excess embryos to another couple.

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Embryo Donation

Source: IVF New Jersey
Dr. Marcus Jurema explains the embryo donation program at IVF New Jersey, where infertile couples are paired with couples who are willing to donate their embryos.

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Embryo donation involves two different couples. First the donating couple has stored embryos from previous in vitro fertilization cycles. Usually they have completed their families and decided to donate these embryos to another infertile couple. They have done so instead of discarding these embryos or donating these embryos to research. In turn the recipent couple are usually couples that have failed multiple cycles of IVF or couples in which both members are truly infertile.
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ART and Embryo Donation: A Short History

Submitted by swmoyers on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 14:10

a blog by Stephanie W. Moyers National Embryo Donation Center, April 5, 2012

In anticipation and support of National Infertility Awareness Week, April 22-28, 2012, I’ve put together a condensed but interesting history of assisted reproduction and embryo donation. My guess is that if you’re reading this you’re already familiar with the ups and downs of infertility, but as Paul Harvey used to say, “Do you know the rest of the story?"

The practice of successful human in vitro fertilization (IVF) is now in its fourth decade and has been a blessing to hundreds of thousands around the world by building families where none may have existed before. In many cases, the byproducts of these successes are remaining embryos, preserved in a state of suspended animation, frozen in liquid nitrogen. The current estimate is that there are more than 600,000 of these “snow babies” in the United States.

Women Share Stories from Both Sides of the 'Snowflake' Adoption

Reporter Herald,  Mar 10, 2012
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Embryo Donation on the Rise

Source: National Embryo Donation Center
As the embryo donation process has become more available and streamlined, more couples are turning to embryo donation for their excess embryos.

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Embryo Adoption Process

Source: National Embryo Donation Center
At the National Embryo Donation Center, adopting an embryo is much like the traditional adoption process.

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Planning a Mock Cycle

Source: National Embryo Donation Center
Prior to the embryo transfer, intended parents go through a mock cycle.

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