10/18/2014 0 Comments new adventureLast fall I heard something about embryo adoption/donation and sort of "hid" it away in my thoughts. We were still unsure about the direction we wanted to go in trying to have a baby and still waiting to see if we could miraculously conceive on our own.
Towards Christmas I was thinking about ea again as we learned that a family member of ours had gone through it and was having triplets. This time I couldn't shake the feeling that I needed to do more homework on this option. I talked with R and he was open to it as well so I spent some time on the phone trying to see where it would lead. After learning that getting an embryo from a local clinic would be a 3 year wait and also that the success rates were less than thrilling with limited donors I made the call to Knoxville TN. The NEDC {national embryo donation center} is a really neat place. They want to help couples who are looking for a home for their frozen embies after successful fertility treatment by finding couples who are looking for a child to call their own. It's really an amazing process and even after learning it could be some time until we were able to get an embryo transferred we felt it was God's timing for us to go ahead and apply. The week I mailed the application R lost his job. My impulse was to stop there and then, but R felt we needed to keep on pressing forward so we did. Thankfully God provided a job for him after a month or so and we started to check items off the massive list of paperwork we had to do. We are currently waiting for our home study to be wrapped up and will then get to choose our donor embryos. We have an appointment set for late November to go and have the transfer actually take place. SUPER exciting and I have to say the amazing thing is.... I already feel so much love for these little lives waiting somewhere for us.
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