I don’t know if you remember, but a few months ago I wrote about donating embryos and what a tricky, tricky topic this can be: for those in search of embryos looking to “adopt” as well as those who may have embryos available after their fertility treatments.
What are the options available? What are the questions you really need to ask yourself? What are the logistics of donating embryos to research? To another couple? Can one just keep paying the cryopreservation fee indefinitely to avoid making a decision?
I don’t have the answers to these questions, but Dawn Davenport at www.findingyourchild.com …read more

This can be a touchy topic and is usually one of the flash points for opponents of IVF and other assisted reproductive techniques: What will you do if you are lucky enough to have any leftover embryos after a successful pregnancy?
Here are the choices: Keep the embryos to try another pregnancy. Donate them top another couple. Donate them to research. Destroy them.
Before any embryos were even in question, before any ART was even begun, my husband and I had to sign pages and pages of papers instructing our clinic what we wanted done with ours. Every scenario was played out …read more

One of my first posts here at Fertility Notes was on the Family Building Act of 2007, legislation which would require the 90% of private insurance companies that don’t currently cover fertility treatments to do so.
If you aren’t among the lucky customers of the other 10%, there are places you can go to apply for financial assistance with your fertility treatments. Several fertility clinics offer shared cycle programs which defray the costs of using donor eggs. If you are planning to use in vitro fertilization (IVF), the International Council on Infertility Information Dissemination, Inc (INCID) offers scholarships to those in …read more