One of the many benefits of using donated embryos is the ability for you to match with donor embryo profiles that fit your preferences.
There are a variety of reasons you may need donated embryos and knowing what you can choose about donor embryos can help determine if that’s a route you want to take to grow your family.
Contact us online to learn more about surrogacy as an option if you any of those reasons apply to your situation, or read more about surrogacy with donor embryos.
This article will delve into the specifics of what you can choose about embryo donor profiles.
What Are Embryo Donor Profiles?
An embryo donor profile is your way to learn more about the person or partners donating their embryos and the emotional considerations when thinking about using them.
You can learn things like:
Their medical history Physical characteristics Information about their children and their health history Pictures of both donors as children
You can get your donated embryos from known or anonymous donors, whether it’s someone you know personally or through professionals that deal with embryo donation such as fertility clinics and banks.
Depending on where you get your donated embryos from can determine what donor embryo profiles look like and how much information you can learn about who donated the embryos.
Some have known donor programs where children born from their embryos are able to receive identifying information about you once they turn 18.
Others may be completely anonymous.
If you want to know more about the donor embryo’s parents, the professional you work with makes a difference.
How to Choose an Embryo Donor
There isn’t a specific process for how to choose your embryo donor.
Embryo donor profiles can give you more information about where the donor embryos come from but it’s still up to you to find the characteristics that are important to you. You can choose donor embryos based on a number of things such as:
- Talents
- Values
- Proximity
- The use of donor gametes
- Post embryo donation contact
- And more
What’s important to you when choosing your donor embryos is unique to your preferences. It won’t necessarily look like another intended parent looking at the same process, and that’s OK.
Beyond the embryo donor profiles and characteristics that you can choose when looking for donor embryos there are the emotional considerations too.
Emotional Considerations for Using Donor Embryos
Using donor embryos could be needed if:
- Untreatable infertility for one or both partners
- Recurrent pregnancy loss related to the embryo
- Genetic disorders affecting one or both partners
No matter the reason why you may be considering using donor embryos to grow your family, you need to consider the emotions that will come with it too. Think about the following questions and how they may apply to your situation:
What are your feelings and emotions about parenting children you don’t have a genetic connection with? What will disclosure to the potential child(ren) look like? What is the plan for future contact and relationships between you, the donors and subsequent children born after embryo donation?
Sharing a genetic connection to their child is important to some intended parents. And although that’s a common bond amongst families, it’s not the only way to connect with your child.
Choosing donor embryos with parents that share the same physical traits, cultural background or lifestyle are examples of avenues that allow you to become bonded and connected with your child.
But a bond between a parent and a child goes deeper than genes or shared traits; it’s about the love you have for that child and it’s something you deserve to experience.
Fill out our online contact form if you want to find out more about surrogacy with donor embryos. You can still have the family you’ve always dreamt of with surrogacy and if you already have your embryos, you’re that much closer to being a parent.
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