Episode 9: Open Embryo Adoption Can Be Amazing!
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Open embryo adoption can be a beautiful thing. This episode gives you a firsthand glimpse from embryo recipients David & Laura George and their embryo donors Gerard & Nicole Straka. Below are some helpful timestamps:
2:00-3:51 What factors were important to adopters David & Laura in the donor selection process
4:04-5:28 How donors Nicole & Gerard’s fertility journey played out
5:51-10:33 Nicole & Gerard on how they agonized over what to do with their frozen embryos, and how a canceled credit card saved their embryos’ chances at life outside the womb.
11:27-16:39 What the mediation process was like for the open adoption
17:20-18:00 What it was like for the donors to see their embryos results in babies born
18:42-22:33 How David & Laura felt when their children were born
23:20-29:15 What their open relationship looks like today
29:53-30:40 What Colt, the donors’ teenage son, thinks of the open adoption relationship
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