Everything our program provides — for adopting families and donating families alike.
Phone consultations to discuss if embryo adoption or embryo donation for adoption placement is right for you and your family.
On-going phone consultations during the process, to answer any questions you may have.
Matching you with a prospective family that has embryos available.
Work with fertility clinics between the donating and adopting family.
Coordination for shipping of embryos to the appropriate clinics.
Referrals to social workers and counselors if needed.
All legal paperwork to transfer the embryos between parties.
A referral to a mentor family that has gone through embryo adoption or donation.
Keeping of permanent records for future needs.
Liaison between the donating and adopting families for future contact.
Ongoing support for families, both donating and adopting.
Counseling regarding adoption or donation is encouraged, and can be made available when needed.
You are interested in having a child or children, and this seems like a great way to have a baby. You are right — this is a wonderful way to add to your family, even if you already have children. We will handle all your paperwork, ship the embryos to your doctor, and be the liaison between you and the donating family for life.
We can send you all of the paperwork you need, by USPS or through Sharefile. Once we have your application, the next phase is the home study.
Similar but streamlined, like adopting a born child. Our social workers can visit you in any state. A current completed home study can be accepted — or updated and accepted.
You make a photo book about yourselves and write a family letter to share with a prospective donating family — on a first-name basis only at this point.
Once you approve of the donor family and the embryos, we ship them to your doctor's clinic for a frozen embryo transfer (FET). You receive all the embryos the donating family has, so siblings may have the chance to be born in one household. Any embryos remaining once your family is complete are returned to the donor family.
We do the legal contracts for both families, and move the embryos once contracts are completed by both families.
If you have remaining embryos stored in the freezer with your doctor, it can pose a dilemma. Perhaps you have your cherished child or children, and you have remaining embryos in the freezer. Right now, you have four options for your remaining embryos:
The kind of contact between the families is decided by the donor family:
We pick a family for you, and work with your clinic to move the embryos to the adopting family's clinic.
You could know the first names of the family. You can still have a birth announcement.
You would know the adopting family by first names only, with communication facilitated through Cedar Park — birth announcement, photos, and periodic updates.
You would know the adopting family on a first and last name basis, with contact on mutually agreed terms. We recommend starting semi-open, and moving to open after birth if everyone agrees.
We would be happy to talk with you by phone or email. We can send you a complete information packet with the application and everything else you need to get started on your journey to embryo adoption.
Request your free information packet 1.888.959.7712