Private frozen embryo adoption..is it legal??

[Redhenful]

Hi guys... i have a question..
Would anyone know if it is legal to give/sell someone your extra frozen embryos? Or does it have to go through an embryo adoption company?
Heres why i ask.. A donor egg cycle is just SO expensive..
And if you go through a embryo adoption company..its just a big hassle.. you have to have an adoption home study and all kinds of crazy stuff... and it is also pretty expensive...
I know that alot of couples have extra FETs that they arent going to use and they are just sitting there..
I thought if we could cut out the middle man..(i.e. the embryo adoption companies) it would just be so much easier and cheaper...
Any ideas?? Or am i nuts??

[mhv]

You cannot legally sell embryos.  You can donate them to someone, or to an agency, but you cannot sell them.  Their are lots of people  looking for donor embryos...you could make someones dream come true!!!  There is a website miracles waiting that matches people looking to donate with people looking to receive.  It is free for you to join if you are interested. There are also a couple of agencies you can donate them to....snowflake adoptions, and e called FIRM.  I met my donor on here, and now have 20 month old boy, girl twins.

[melly11250]

I may be interested in selling my frozen embryos in the  next few months...I am currently doing IVF at shady grove in VA and my husband and I have been thinking about selling leftovers to help us cover all out fertility bills but don't know where to start are you still looking for embroys ?

[Redhenful]

No, they have me on the progesterone inserts....
i'm wondering if the shots would work better for me...
I'm going to run it by my RE....
And yes, thank god for awesome hubbys... :o)

[RockNLocker]

Sorry to hear that for you. I have had a realy hard time dealing with it all today. DH is just a dream come true. He would move the earth if he thought it would ease my pain. I'm still so sore from the PIO injections. Are you taking them too?

[Redhenful]

So sorry...:o(
I'm also getting a BFN this month too...  *sigh*
I have only one frozen embie left... then i'm out of luck and money...

[RockNLocker]

We transfered 3 embies but we just got our BFN. But we have picked ourselves back up and will be going back to RE for follow up next week.

[Redhenful]

I just checked it out! It looks pretty good! So how many embryos do you get for that price though?? 2? Or do you get all the embies that couple has? Because it may not work the firsr time....
Thanks for this info! :o)

[RockNLocker]

Look them up on the web. NCCRM.com. It is crazey what those adoption agency wants to charge you esp when they got the embies for FREE. They neglect to mention that in there price. Our RE is absolutly the best. The whole staff is!

[mhv]

Wow! That's awesome!  I can't believe that!  I was looking into another embryo adoption agency and they were really really expensive!!!  That is a wonderful price! : )

[Redhenful]

Thanks!! I'll look into them!!! :o)

[RockNLocker]

I'm on my 2ww now with a FET. We used adopted embryos from our RE. They are the best. We live in North Carolina. We went it and did all of our blood work and HSG. It took us about 6 months to get matched up but it only costed us about 3500 and that was with meds. You can look them up. The name is North Carolina Center for Reproductive medicine. They have several offices.Dr Toma and his staff are the best. Always making you feel right at home.

[Redhenful]

Thanks! I'll check into it... :o)

[mhv]

especially if you look into the already frozen eggs.  that would mean you wouldn't have to sync your cycle with a donor.... just a thought : )

[mhv]

That would be do-able wouldn't it?  I live in OH.  It's just limited trips....

[Redhenful]

I live in Mass...

[mhv]

I don't know how you find people who want to adopt out their embryo other than an agency.  I know they can't charge you for them because they are considered an embryo.

Where do you live?  Shady Grove is really good at working with you on out of town monitoring.  It is so easy with donor eggs.  We, my DH and I,  only have to make 2 trips there.  They do an over the phone consultation free of charge, and then you go for 1 day and do all testing, and meet with Social Worker, and hubby leaves his contribution, and then you do all of your testing in the city where you live, and go for transfer day.  If you live anywhere on or near the east coast, it would be worth checking into. : )  

[Redhenful]

Paying a lawyer would be so worth it... much cheaper than the embryo adoption companies..
I wonder how i could get started in this....

[Redhenful]

I wish we had a Shady Grove up here!!! We do have Attain clinics.. but i cant find any Shady Grove.... I'll have to call the Attain clinic and see what they offer..
Is Shady Grove part of Attain??

[pol79princess]

That's an interesting question... I think the issue would be that fertility clinics wouldn't deal with anybody without any legal agreements between you and the donor; too much liability on them...

[mhv]

I would just think you would need the person and a lawyer.
Could be wrong on that, but you are right.  Adopting others embryos is very very expensive *although you can get tax write off for adoption* I checked ino that too.  OHHH... by the way... Shady Grove has Frozen Donor Eggs not embryos that you could check in to.