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Post by EmbryoMom on Jun 25, 2010 18:20:34 GMT -5
I'll add some info on us - we have four children - our last one was born via donor embryos in 2007! Where in TX are you from, texanmomof4? We are in TX too - about 2 hours from Houston. Jennifer, Hi neighbor! We are near The Woodlands. What about you? We are in Lufkin. About an hour and a half from The Woodlands. My husband and I love that area and come there often. PF Chang's at The Woodlands is one of our favorite places to eat! Small world! |
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Post by luvadoptedkids on Jun 26, 2010 21:54:40 GMT -5
Hi, my name is Tracy and here is our story, My husband, Richard, and I have been happily married for 21 years. Early on in our marriage, we were diagnosed with complete male factor infertility. We have been blessed with three beautiful children through seperate open adoptions. Bailey, now 17, was born during the time of our lives when my husband and I were grieving the loss of our only pregnancy from donor insimination. She was born when our baby would have been. Her birth was like a healing salve to our hurting hearts. Once we discovered that the Lord could fill our aching arms with such delight through adoption, we began to pray for the Lord to bring us another child. We hoped and prayed for 6 years when Addison was born. She is now 11. In the time of waiting until the Lord brought our second child into our lives, He did an amazing work upon our heart towards opening our relationship up with Bailey's birthmother. We started out slow and before we knew it, she was a full active part of our family. Today, she is my best friend and we share many of our life experiences together. When Addison came into our lives, her birthparents were already friends that we had known for some time and loved dearly. Keeping the doors of our relationship open thorughout her adoption was easy and our hearts today love them with even a greater love than ever before. Levi is 3 and we just had his birthday party with many friends, our family and his birthmother and her family also. Reiko, his birthmother feels like a daughter to us and her presence in our family is wonderful. She has recently birthed another son named Heidern (pronounced Heiden), that we consider our grandson even though he is Levi's 1/2 brother. We love all of our birth families very much and have contact with them on a regular basis. We have five birth families for our three children. Keeping everyone up to date with all that goes on in our family is much eaiser done with updates on our family blog. For me, the road to motherhood for the past 21 years seemed only possible through domestic adoption. Now that the Lord has opened my eyes to embryo adoption, the longing to birth is again revived and stirred within me. The thought that there might be a way to hold a child of mine without traveling through the pain of another person, is something I look forward to. I love my children so dearly but I also know that their birth parents felt deep sorrow during my greatest time of joy (their birth). That realization is so hard on my heart because of the love I hold for them. As a profession, I am a labor doula. I watch families birth without sorrow and it is so different than what I've witnessed with the births of my children. I pray that the Lord will allow me to experience this side of motherhood and to have joy without sorrow as our sweet new baby/babies come into our lives. We are praying that the gift of someones embryos would be this for us. We will continue to pray for this to dream to come true and place our hope and trust upon the Lord to continue to build our family. We know that in His perfect timing He will bring us our precious little embryos, and bond us to a beautiful genetic family. I have a life verse that has encouraged me throughout our journey. 1 Peter 5:10 But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. Waiting for the joy set before us, Richard and Tracy Waring. Attachments:
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Post by jens7fromheaven on Jun 28, 2010 16:43:05 GMT -5
Hi, I want to thank Jen for creating this much needed forum and asking me to be a co moderator!!! My name is Jen as well and I am amazed at how many Jen's there are out here whom are involved in Embryo Adoption/Donation!!! Jen is definitely the most popular name out here so far!!!  My husband and I have struggled with fertility issues for 14 years. We have been blessed with 7 children through the miracle of adoption. Four were adopted from Russia, 1 from Missouri and was born with special needs, and two who were adopted as embryos. We used Miracles Waiting to find our girls and opted for a completely open adoption. In fact, I stayed with our donor family during the transfer. It was a wonderful and amazing experience!!! Sarah and Anna were born on 1-8-10. I have 2 blogs that I would love for you to follow: www.3babes2jens1cause-embryoadoption.blogspot.comThis blog was started by another Jen- I told you there are a lot of Jen's out here - to raise awareness and information about Embryo Adoption. www.jens7fromheaven.blogspot.comI created this blog to inspire others, through our journey and adventures, to take a leap of faith and adopt one or more Special Blessings into their family. There is ALWAYS room for more!!!! I hope you enjoy this forum. If you have any ideas and suggestions, please let us know!!! Hugs!!! |
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Post by texanmom4 on Jun 28, 2010 22:43:40 GMT -5
Get out! WE LOVE LOVE LOVE PF Chang's! We will so meet there next time you are here. You also have one of the best zoos ever in Lufkin!
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Post by EmbryoMom on Jun 29, 2010 11:21:33 GMT -5
Sounds like a plan, Shannon! I'd love to meet up! If you are ever here too, let me know. We have a zoo membership!
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Post by parothead on Jun 29, 2010 17:17:18 GMT -5
My name is Mary and I am currently awaiting the start of a donor embryo cycle that hopefully will be in about 6 weeks. Dh and I have been married for almost 4 years and have been trying for that long. We ahve done 5 IUi, 3 Ivf with donor eggs and 2 IVf with donor embryos. I got pregnant both times with the donor embryos but sadly lost them at 13 and 7 weeks(4 months apart). I just found out in April that I have MTHFR, both of my tubes are blocked despite one being reattached by tubal reversal surgery in Sept 2006 and I had 2 polops and some left over placental tissue removed in May of this year that I didn't know was there. I am commuteing to Cooper in NJ from SW Ohio for my transfer because my local clinic has ethical issues with doing a transfer at my age but has agreed to do all of my monitoring. I look forward to shareing my journey with all of you ladies and shareing your experiences too. Hopefully we can learn alot from each other on our path to Motherhood.
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Post by luvadoptedkids on Jun 29, 2010 18:47:09 GMT -5
Welcome Mary  So glad you are with us. Awesome to hear of your upcoming embryo cycle.  |
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Post by jens7fromheaven on Jun 29, 2010 22:37:46 GMT -5
Hi Mary,
I also have MTHFR. I gave myself twice daily heparin shots for the cycle before my transfer and until my water broke at 36 weeks. Please ask your doctor about it. I also continued the 81 mg aspirin and folgard (extra folic acid) the same amount of time.
Best of Luck!!!
Jen
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Post by betsysue16 on Jun 30, 2010 16:22:20 GMT -5
Hello Everyone! My name is Elizabeth and my husband and I decided to pursue embryo adoption last year after TTC for six years. We did 5 IUIs over a three year period, lots of fun fertility tests, got pregnant naturally and miscarried at six weeks, and finally decided we had waited long enough. It took my husband and I a good two years to be on the same page with adoption. We recently found out why I have so much trouble conceiving; I have an abnormality in my tubes. They look like corkscrews and are mostly blocked. I am glad we were well into our adoption by the time we found this out as it softened this bad news. =) We were just rematched with a new donor family through Snowflakes. We are working on getting our contract done this month and hope for an October transfer. Our first match with Snowflakes fell through when the donor family became too emotionally attached to their embryos and could not bring themselves to sign the paperwork. I was told this is very rare with Snowflakes. We were really sad for the embryos we were going to adopt but are now very excited for our new embies which were created from both an egg donor and a sperm donor. I don't know anyone in person who has ever done embryo adoption so it has been great to get to know all you ladies out there! www.deshack.blogspot.com |
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Post by EmbryoMom on Jun 30, 2010 16:45:57 GMT -5
Welcome!
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Post by luvadoptedkids on Jul 1, 2010 13:18:17 GMT -5
Welcome Elizabeth... I know that must have been very difficult for you to have missed out on the first embryos but I'm with you and very excited for your upcoming cycle with your new and very precious little embies. |
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Post by jessaroni on Jul 10, 2010 20:50:48 GMT -5
Hi! I am Jess. I know many of you from other forums or from the blogosphere and it is good to see you all here. Here is our story: Hubby and I have been married for 12 years this month. We began ttc 3 months into marriage and knew about 8 months later that we had issues. We decided to skip treatments and jumped into domestic adoption. Two failed adoptions later, one of which we had our little girl for 3 months, and we decided to do treatments. We did 4 IUIs with donor sperm and when those did not work we moved onto embryo donation with a local clinic and I am happy to announce that I am 33 weeks pregnant with a little girl!
Jess
agreateryes.blogspot.com
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Post by tracey on Jul 21, 2010 20:56:47 GMT -5
Hi. I am Tracey. My DH and I have been married for almost 6 years. We have one adopted daughter, Sadie, born 11/08. We were in process of adopting Sadie's biological sibling when we found out that the birth couple were receiving money from both us and another couple in MA for the same child - adoption fraud! And then they never placed the child with either of us. To make matters worse, all of their children were then taken into Child Protective Services because they were abusing drugs. So very sad. BUT, we ADORE Sadie and are now in process of embryo adoption through the NEDC. We just picked our donors this week and will be transferring in September!! I don't have a blog for this yet, but will soon : ) Glad to now be following many of you who just got transfers this week - I will be praying for you and your sweet embryos!
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Post by manykids4us on Jul 22, 2010 23:02:37 GMT -5
Hello. I am Kristy and my husband is Mark. We will be married for 10 yrs. this September. I have a very interesting infertility journey to share. My husband has 2 daughters from his previous marriage. 1 biological and 1 he adopted. While he was married to his first wife he had a vasectomy. After we meet and married he had a reversal and that started the problems for us. We really didn't htink that we would really have any problems after his reversal. But we did. Not only does he have male infertility factor (low sperm count, antibodies and low motility) I have female infertility factors as well ( my eggs do not mature).
About 5 1/2 yrs. ago we decided to become foster parents. That was a huge blessing for us. Through foster care, the Lord brought to us our 7 adopted children. During this time we went through 2 rounds of IUI's and 1 round of IVF. After IVF we were told that pretty much our chances of birthing a biological child is slim to none. Our doctor actually said it would not be worth trying IVF again. WOW, what a shock and disapointment I felt. I felt hopeless and pretty much decided to quit. But then we heard of Embryo adoption and I am very excited to start our journey. We will be starting our EA journey at the beginning of the new year. Yes, I am thankful and blessed beyond measure of the the children the Lord has given us, but my desire to carry, be pregnant and birth a child does not go away. And also, we feel that we need to give these babies a chance at life.
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Post by micweaver on Aug 1, 2010 18:32:38 GMT -5
Hi. My name is Michele from Georgia. I am 32 years old and my husband is 33. We have one biological daughter 6 years old and two babies in heaven. We have always had to use fertility treatments to get pregnant. We have been trying the last 2 years with no luck getting pregnant. We are looking into doing embryo adoption but have had trouble finding a clinic in Georgia with no wait time. We checked into a clinic in Atlanta and the waiting list is from 1-2 years and our local clinic does not do embryo adoption.
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So glad you are with us. Awesome to hear of your upcoming embryo cycle.