'I knew in my heart that discarding them was just not an option.' Fertility treatments can be a very emotional process filled with complex decisions, including what to do with extra embryos. It's a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those undergoing IVF may have embryos they don't plan to use; here's what happens when those embryos are donated to others. (Image ...

Nearly three years into her marriage, Emily Berning suspected there was some reason why she wasn’t getting pregnant. A few highly unpleasant tests at a fertility clinic gave her the answer: Her ...

The two friends used embryo donation and adoption to build their dream families. Abbey LeVine and Wendy, who asked that her last name not be used, were two single women in New York when they met on ...

Data from a national study on embryo donation found there were 21,000 donated frozen embryo transfers in the U.S. from 2004 to 2019. According to the World Health Organization, infertility affects one ...

Last week my blog concerned embryo donation. This blog will focus on the recipients of embryo donation. With the large number of cryopreserved (frozen) embryos available in the U.S., only a small ...

Each year in the United States, fertility treatment centers perform hundreds of thousands of assisted reproductive cycles in which eggs or embryos are handled. In 2020, for example, there were 326,468 ...