Hi!

 

Thank you for taking the time to read through our profile. We hope that this gives you a glimpse into us, our children, and our lives.

 

When we started down the path of creating our family, we always knew that adoption would be part of our family building. But, we also anticipated having biological children. We had high hopes, and had no reason not to expect that in a few years’ time biology and adoption would allow us to create our family.

 

As it turns out, our traditional efforts to conceive were unsuccessful. So, in 2013, we began IVF with daily, sometimes multiple times per day, injections of hormones, taking pills, going to the doctor every morning. It was painful, time intensive, and expensive. But, it was all worth it when it gave rise to our two “minis” being implanted. We were heartbroken when those minis failed to thrive and, thus, wouldn’t be part of our future. We never anticipated that as the possible outcome of IVF.

 

We gave IVF one more go with another clinic and more hormones. Yet, once again, our efforts were unsuccessful, presumbly because of egg quality.

 

What those infertility challenges reinforced for us, however, was our desire to focus on adoption, exclusively. To date, we have gone through three traditional adoption processes. They have had their own difficulties, we are so thankful for our family. All of the trials and tribulations have been worth it, as we have grown from our experiences and are even more solid as a family because of them. The traditional adoption process first led us to J, who just turned 7 in December; A, who turned 6 in April; and M, who will turn 4 in September.

 

We always knew that we would have 4 children together, and we started our 4th traditional adoption journey in 2021. That journey has been long and excruciating, as there seem to be less and less birth mothers and more and more waiting families. Earlier this year, we started to explore embryo adoption to complete our family building, and we have fallen in love with the idea.

 

In all of our traditional adoptions, it has been nerve wracking being concerned about prenatal exposure you're not quite sure your children are being subjected to. For our children, it appears that they all had this challenge, and we've had to be very proactive to make sure that any challenges resulting from that exposure are, essentially, neutralized.

 

As we started to look into embryo adoption, it became obvious that this is one startling benefit of adoption at the embryo stage: we will know from the moment of transfer that the child will be well taken care of and nurtured throughout the pregnancy and into birth. It will be such a remarkable experience for our children, as well, to be able to be part of that process and see this new little baby come into the world (something else the traditional adoption process has not been able to provide for us).

 

Our kiddos are already invested in us adding a fourth child to our family. They don't know the nuances of embryo adoption, but they constantly ask when their new sibling will arrive. They are already great siblings to each other, I know that they will be just as loving and nurturing to their new brother or sister.

 

We hope that we can provide this for them and complete our family.

 

With love,

[Her name] and [His name]