After I found out that the Jones Institute would probably not be able to match us with in 6 months, I started looking into ways to match ourselves. I had joined a facebook group when we decided to move forward with Embryo adoption called Embryo Adoption and Donation Support Group. Previously, I had just read the post and absorbed the information that was being posted. I now decided to use one of the features in this group where embryo donors and those looking for embryos post info about themselves in hopes of matching with each other. I posted a paragraph about my husband and I and a couple pictures. No one contacted us and out the few I contacted no one responded.
It is stressful to match yourself because you don't know what your getting. Are you getting junk embryos that would never produce a baby or are you getting embryos that could carry diseases.Age can be a factor in the success of embryos and the grade of the embryos. There just so many factors that could affect the success rate of an embryo and you just don't know the full history when matching yourself.
There are a couple private matching websites that I am aware of and may be more:
We created a profile on the National Registry for Adoption and paid a $49 set up fee and then $39 a month fee with the 3 month package. We answered lots of questions about us as people. What we do for a living, what we are looking for from a donor, what we are interested in, etc. Think of a dating profile, on steroids. lol Seriously, It took quite a few hours to fill out all the questions they provide for you to answer. I contacted probably 20 or more donors through this website most never responded and the few who did respond had either already matched with someone or where already talking with a couple possible matches.
We tried to use the Miracles in Waiting website as well but I tried multiple times to join and could not get it to work.
I then was traveling for work and heard on the news about an IVF doctors office in Nashville, TN that had embryos available. I live on the northeast coast of North Carolina, so Nashville was a along way away, but I like to travel so figured I would check it out. I can't remember the name of the place, but I remember it was really expensive and when I contacted them they only had a few embryos. I just did not have a good feeling about it and I remember the cost being the same or more than doing a full round of IVF here locally.
Next, I contacted a IVF clinic in Raleigh who said they had embryos to find out they had a 2 year wait. I even contacted a clinic in Barbados, that people in an IVF facebook group I was part of where raving about. They did not have any embryos that would fit our criteria, but I was loving the idea of going to Barbados to transfer them.
Around sometime in May 2018, I was scrolling through Facebook and saw where my previous Clinic the New Hope Center had embryos. I wonder if this was another wild goose chase, but it kept sneaking in my mind. After wrestling with it for a week or so. I made the call to see, if they really had embryos. They did!!
Since, I had not been there in over a year, I had to set up an appointment with Dr. Robin to discuss the process and options. That appointment was set for early June 2018.
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