A: Dear Jon,
I think it is great you and your wife are taking steps now to decide what you will do with remaining embryos after you have completed your family building process.
There is no cost to donate your remaining frozen embryos for adoption. Typically, donor families will continue to pay storage costs until the embryos are adopted, but that is it. The adoptive family covers the cost for transport of the embryos and legal fees.
We have an entire Embryo Donor section on our website focused on the basics of embryo donation. It will help to give you a brief overview of the process.
In addition there are also low cost storage donation programs out there which will greatly reduce the cost of storage fees while waiting to be matched with an adoptive family. The Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program and Fairfax Cryobank launched in 2011. Several families choose this option. You can find details of this program on the Snowflakes website.
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gift4charlee says
ReplyDeleteMany people are not aware of this especially in Canada. As a hopefull recipient I wish this gift was more available. I am looking at this method, I would love this child. I believe an embryo in a dish is a child...it just hasn't been given a space to nurture and grow yet. I look forward to the profound moment I tell my child and they fully comprehend how they came alive. The angelic donors who gifted their special creation for someone to carry and give life to. They will be happy to be alive given and chosen. Born to be....please donate don't discard your embryos they will give life & change a life! I'm looking for an embryo myself. Please contact me you'd consider doing so. God bless23/08/13 charleeglitz@gmail.com
Thank you for the appropriate answer regarding embryos adoption.
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