Real Stories from Embryo Donors

These are real donors who helped other families grow through embryo donation with Embryo Connections. We are grateful to every family who chose to share their experience here.

We hope their stories offer something every family deserves at the start of this path: the reassurance that they are not alone, and the hope that this can work.

Embryo Donation Stories from Recipients and Donors
Donating our embryos and watching a stranger become a mom to our genetic baby has been one of the most uncomplicated complicated things we have ever done!
Donating our embryos and watching a stranger become a mom to our genetic baby has been one of the most uncomplicated complicated things we have ever done!

Donating our embryos and watching a stranger become a mom to our genetic baby has been one of the most uncomplicated complicated things we have ever done! We spent so much time agonizing about whether this was the stupidest/craziest thing to do, or the most amazingly awesome. Turns out it was the latter!

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When I look at my amazing daughters, I am sometimes reminded of the five embryos we had remaining after we knew our journey to parenthood was complete.
When I look at my amazing daughters, I am sometimes reminded of the five embryos we had remaining after we knew our journey to parenthood was complete.

When I look at my amazing daughters, I am sometimes reminded of the five embryos we had remaining after we knew our journey to parenthood was complete.

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We were blessed with identical twins from our first of sixteen embryos
We were blessed with identical twins from our first of sixteen embryos

We were blessed with identical twins from our first of sixteen embryos - so deciding what to do with the other 15 was an emotionally fraught journey, and the logistics involved were overwhelming!

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