Embryo adoption, also called embryo donation, is a way for a hopeful mother to become pregnant and carry her adopted child to birth. Donated embryos provide a chance for waiting parents to have child and save unused embryos from being destroyed. You may have heard these babies called “snowflake babies.” This phrase comes from Nightlight, […]
Category: Embryo
When a person or couple complete their family through fertility treatments and they have “extra” embryos they have not used, they make a choice to maintain the embryos cryogenically, thaw them, donate them to science or donate them to another infertile single person or couple. Once legally transferred as property, the recipient will implant the embryos in herself or in a gestational carrier. Since the recipients have no biological connection to the embryo, the baby is still considered the child of the woman who gives birth to it. In some embryo situations, the “recipient” parent(s) will need to adopt the child at birth. A lawyer or embryo agency should always be consulted in an embryo donation (also know as embryo adoption) situation.