Stories

My husband and I are recipient parents of donated embryos. We went through the NEDC. We love sharing our story with others, especially those that are walking through the process of EA. We have actually been blessed to have had two successful fet's. We have two beautiful daughters. Our oldest is 3 1/2, and our baby girl is almost 7 months old. Our first EA, was open. We have never met our donating family, but we do communicate regularly through email. It has been a joy to have them in our lives, and of course, we feel such gratitude for the amazing gift they have given us in our daughter. Our donating family had no remaining embryos, so we had to find another family for our second adoption. It was our plan to do an open adoption again, but we believe God had other plans. While on route to TN for our transfer, we received a phone call informing us that none of the embryos we had adopted survived the thawing process. Our options were to start over and wait for the next transfer cycle, or choose from the anonymous donor profiles. We chose the latter. 9 months later, our secon miracle baby, a baby we would have never known otherwise, was born.
There is so much that I could say about our experience. I know that I felt very alone the first time through. I knew other people had been through an embryo adoption, but I didn't know any of them! I felt that there was no one to talk to who really understood what I was going through physically, emotionally, or mentally. Thankfully, I discovered several EA blogs the second time around. I actually connected with women who were working with the NEDC, and who were in the same transfer cycle as us. We got to meet a couple of my blogging sisters while in Knoxville. Then, we 'walked' through our pregnancies, births, and now life with babies together. The address for my blog is http://www.oncemore-lord.blogspot.com The story of our first embryo adoption and the first twelve months of our second embryo adoption is there under PAGES.