The Cryoport® team had the pleasure of speaking with Deborah Mecerod, Co-founder and Director of Clinical Operations at MyEggBank®. MyEggBank® is one of our highly valued reproductive medicine clients and strategic partners, along with their respective sister and parent company, The Prelude Network and Inception Fertility, LLC. In our discussion, we hold conversations around MyEggBank®, … Continued
As IVF becomes more common, so is embryo donation and adoption, in which couples choose to donate extra embryos to those who cannot otherwise conceive. At CryoStork, we assist all kinds of families on their IVF journeys, including many who choose to adopt these “snowflake babies.” Here are three powerful stories we’ve heard from CryoStork clients who used embryo adoption to create their families. IVF and our … Continued
At CryoStork, we help thousands of eager IVF parents safely transport their gametes and embryos around the world — yes, even during a global pandemic. We hear a lot of stories from parents on their IVF journey, and we recently asked them to share some of their stories of struggle and triumph. Here’s what they told us, including their hard-earned advice. Welcome the Unexpected Surprises – And Solutions IVF and … Continued
The IVF process can be long and complicated, with rounds of hormonal treatments, doctor’s visits and implantations. Now imagine if you had to worry about a destructive hurricane on top of it. In the summer of 2019, Heidi Bartlett and her husband decided to adopt embryos. The Bartletts, who live in Michigan, connected with a donor family nearly 1,000 miles away in South Carolina. “You arrange … Continued
A new Daily Mail article highlights the dramatic increase in IVF amongst UK women within the last decade: treatment cycles with frozen eggs increased from 410 in 2012 1,462 in 2017. The National Health System currently imposes a time limit of ten years for women to store their eggs (excluding cancer patients and prematurely infertile women) – after that, the eggs must be used for fertility or they will be destroyed. Amending the policy could allow women to exercise … Continued
Maria Lancaster is the President and Co-Founder of Embryo Adoption Services of Cedar Park, a clinic she has run for over a decade. Below, she explains the frozen embryo adoption process, cost, and the benefits of using Cryoport’s CryoStork services. About how many embryo adoptions do you help facilitate each year? In the first 10 … Continued