Embryo Adoption Program

The fact that hundreds of thousands of embryos are currently cryopreserved worldwide has been the subject of many articles in the press and a slew of television programs. CHR has for years been a pioneer in the concept of embryo adoption. In fact, we coined that now widely accepted term.

Couples who have conceived with IVF and have completed their families, while still having cryopreserved embryos in storage, often face a gut-wrenching decision on what to do with their embryos. We have for years tried to encourage such couples to donate their embryos for "adoption" by others. (See our current supply of available embryos below.) In contrast to most other IVF programs, we are also willing to accept frozen embryos from other IVF programs for this purpose.

Unfortunately, there are never enough embryos being donated and therefore, in contrast to egg donation, there is always a waiting period for embryo adoption.

The embryo adoption process is otherwise similar to oocyte/egg donation. We ask recipient couples to fill out the Embryo Adoption Wish List, which allows us to match donor's with recipient couples. Once a match is made, the cycle usually proceeds quickly.

If you are interested in our Embryo Adoption Program, complete the Embryo Adoption Wish List. If you wish to donate eggs, please Visit the Egg Donor Webpage. If you wish to donate embryos, please Contact Us.

Embryos Available for Immediate Donation to Recipients

CHR offers an embryo donation (“embryo adoption”) program, which utilizes embryos donated anonymously by infertile patients/couples for such a purpose. The availability of embryos is usually limited and embryo donation does not offer the wide variety of choices that egg and semen donation allows.

We list here currently for donation available embryos at CHR:

Ethnicity/Race		Number of Embryos	Comments
Female	Male	available for donation
African-American	Caucasian*	4	* Semen donor
Hispanic	Caucasian*	4	* Semen donor
Caucasian (Serbian)	Caucasian (Serbian)	2

     

This listing is steadily updated as new embryos are donated by patients to CHR and/or available embryos are implanted into recipients.

If you are interested in being considered as a recipient, please contact us for an initial consultation with a CHR physician.