An Intro to Our Story

Hello! Welcome to our Journey to Embryo Adoption. Our hope is that this blog will allow you to walk alongside us as we experience the joys and sorrows that come with such a Miracle Event. We pray that our journey will help answer your questions, encourage you, and spread the word about Embryo Adoption. 

A little background on our journey:

My husband and I married young, about 6 ½ years ago. Early in our marriage we began trying to conceive; we were unsuccessful. After some time of trying, we went to see a specialist. It turned out that, due to chemotherapy drugs at a young age, my husband had azoospermia. Thus we were unable to naturally conceive. The only options we knew of for starting a family were traditional adoption and a very expensive explorative medical procedure for my husband which offered no real expectation of success. Neither one of those options was really viable to us; both were very expensive, and we were newlyweds. After months of tirelessly researching, my husband stumbled upon Embryo Adoption through Nightlight’s Snowflake program. Once again, the costs seemed so high! We were both students, and working, and we lived in a basement! It just did not seem like the right time to start a family. 

God apparently had plans to get us out of that basement after 3 years, and into an expensive apartment in a different state. At this time, I was working full time, my husband had just started a demanding new job while simultaneously working towards his CPA, and our rent was more than a mortgage. Somehow, it still was not the right time to start a family. We lived there for 2 years until we decided to buy a house, which landed us in yet another state! Of course that year was now out of the picture. I began school again full time and was working full time, my husband was climbing the ranks after being transferred to a new office and taking classes, and we had just shelled out a huge chunk of our money on this new house. It seemed as if “the right time” to start a family would never come…

We have been in this house a little over a year now and the idea of Embryo Adoption has come back into play. It seems as though slowly, but surely, God has been putting things in order for us to start this process. We now had a mortgage, but it was less than our rent had been. We managed to pay both of our cars off, my job agreed to let me work from home, and I was almost done with my bachelor’s degree. It was at this time that we began to really consider pursuing some option to start our family. 

We did not want to start with traditional adoption simply because we wanted to give birth to our first child. So we turned to the previously mentioned expensive surgical procedure, but it was upwards of $20,000 and if it failed, we would have nothing to show for it, and we would be broke; unable to try any other method. All of that led us back around to Embryo Adoption. After doing more research this year, we came across the National Embryo Donation Center, located in Knoxville, TN. Knoxville is dear to our hearts, and God has made that city instrumental in our lives already; it was very fitting that the NEDC would be in that city! The NEDC was very pro-life and Christian. Their fees were affordable, with enough wiggle room to possibly do a sibling transfer. We prayed about this for a while, and we both felt at peace with pursing Embryo Adoption with the NEDC….and that is where our story begins. 

So now I invite you into our lives, to follow along with us…