Grace and Chris's embryo donation miracle

As a couple who benefited from CT Fertility’s embryo donation program, we want to share our experience and express our gratitude, hopefully encouraging more to consider donating their unused embryos.

This year we will be celebrating the holidays for the first time with a child of our own! He is an absolute gift, everyone adores him, it feels no different than having a child that is biologically ours… But without the gift of a donated embryo we wouldn’t have been parents today.
Our son Ben was born after a decade of failed attempts to become parents. After two miscarriages I had in 2001, we embarked on a journey that escalated to include the help of a gestational carrier, and several attempts with both my eggs and those of two egg donors. Exhausted from the psychological and financial toll of our journey, the use of donated embryos was suggested by the clinic staff. After 6 moths of searching and waiting for a match, a CT Fertility couple came forward to donate 3 high quality day-5 frozen embryos. This time a pregnancy occurred on the first attempt, and our gestational surrogate carried Ben to term without a hitch. We know the basic medical information and characteristic family attributes that the donors shared with us, but otherwise it was an anonymous donation. We are forever thankful… We are the happiest we have been in more than 10 years, our son is the light and shining star in our lives, a rainbow of hope.

I call upon all who are in a position to do so to consider offering their leftover embryos for donation – you can change someone’s world forever!

Grace and Chris.