Embryo Adoption
The fact that hundreds of thousands of embryos are currently cryopreserved worldwide has been the subject of many articles in the press and a slew of television programs. Center for Human Reproduction, based in New York, NY, has for years been a pioneer in the concept of embryo adoption. In fact, we coined that now widely accepted term. Adopting embryos has since then become more popular.
Embryo Adoption Overview
Couples who have conceived with IVF and have completed their families often face a gut-wrenching decision on what to do with their embryos, when still having cryopreserved embryos in storage. We have for years tried to encourage such couples to donate their embryos for "adoption" by others. (See our current supply of available embryos below.) In contrast to most other IVF programs, we are also willing to accept frozen embryos from other IVF programs for this purpose.
Unfortunately, there are never enough embryos being donated and therefore, in contrast to egg donation, there is always a waiting period for embryo adoption.
The embryo adoption process is otherwise similar to oocyte/egg donation. We ask recipient couples to fill out the embryo adoption wish list, which allows us to match donors with recipient couples. Once a match is made, the cycle usually proceeds quickly.
If you are interested in our Embryo Adoption Program, complete the embryo adoption wish list. If you wish to donate embryos, please contact us.
Embryos Available for Immediate Donation to Recipients
CHR's Embryo Adoption Program utilizes embryos donated anonymously by infertile patients/couples for such a purpose. The availability of embryos is usually limited and embryo donation does not offer the wide variety of choices that egg donation and sperm donation allows.
We list here embryos currently available for embryo adoption at CHR:
Donation ID |
Ethnic Background Female |
Ethnic Background Male |
Number of Embryos |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
* Denotes embryos created with donor eggs and/or donor sperm, as specified in the Comments column. All other embryos were created with patients' own eggs and their partners' sperm. |
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#DE1052 |
French-African, Indian Ocean |
French |
2 |
|
#DE1053 |
Asian (Chinese)* |
Asian (Chinese) |
4 |
*Egg Donor |
#DE1057 |
Caucasian* |
Caucasian* |
4 |
*Egg Donor; *Sperm Donor |
#DE1059 |
Caucasian (Polish)* |
Caucasian (Italian) |
6 |
*Egg Donor |
#DE1060 |
Caucasian (Swedish)* |
Chinese |
8 |
*Egg Donor |
#DE1062 |
Caucasian, Middle Eastern (Iraqi, Hungarian, Czech)* |
Caucasian (Ashkenazi Jewish) |
7 |
*Egg donor |
#DE1063 |
Caucasian (Italian, Polish, Irish)* |
Caucasian (German, Polish, Syrian Jewish) |
4 |
*Egg donor |
This listing is steadily updated as new embryos are donated by patients to CHR and/or available embryos are implanted into recipients.
If you are interested in learning more about our Embryo Adoption Program, its costs and for consideration as a recipient, please call 212-994-4400 or contact us for an initial consultation with a CHR physician.
Last Updated: October 31, 2011
