Embryo Adoption Awareness Center - The Source for Knowledge
March 2009                               
Embryo Adoption Awareness Center News 
Second Webinar in the series...
Labeling, Storage and Quarantine: What is the FDA Inspector Looking for?
 
American Board of Bioanalysis PEER CEU credit available.
 
Two sessions to choose from.
 
TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2009, 12:00 pm PACIFIC TIME 
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2009, 9:00 am PACIFIC TIME
 
$50.00 per person or $100.00 maximum per clinic.  Registration and payment are separate steps.  To register and pay visit www.EmbryoAdoption.org.
Issue 2:3 
IN THIS ISSUE

NEW! Donor Disposition Choice Video Testimonial

Next Reglera Webinar: Labeling, Storage and Quarantine

'Octomom' Spurs Debate Around the Country

Stem Cells Help Stroke Victim Talk Again
Embryo Donor Video May Help Clinics Educate Patients 
 
                 Donor Family
 
In October 2008 two families with genetically related children met for the first time.  Watch and listen as the donor family, Jennifer and Jason Spohr share their journey through IVF to embryo donation.  Couples in your clinic have frozen embryos in storage.  Choosing the disposition of those embryos can be difficult and often results in couples simply choosing to leave them frozen.
 
The choice of embryo donation allows them to bring joy to another family.  This choice also allows your clinic to reduce the number of embryos in storage and potentially help another family achieve pregnancy.
 
This video, along with the adopting family's story will soon be posted on the Embryo Adoption web site.  Let us know what you think about this video by taking a brief poll.
Program Matches Families, Embryos
By Tracy Garcia, Staff Writer
San Gabriel Valley Tribune

 
WHITTIER - In a family squabble posted online this week, Whittier octuplets mom Nadya Suleman seemed completely taken aback when her mother said she should have put the frozen embryos from her fertility treatments up for adoption rather than have them all implanted.
 
Although Suleman, a 33-year-old divorced mother of 14 children under the age of 7, pondered the idea for a second, she quickly dismissed it for herself.
 
But for many infertile couples, embryo adoption is a viable alternative - particularly for those who were able to have children through in vitro fertilization, but don't want to destroy the embryos leftover from their treatment.

 
Thanks for reading!  Happy Spring! 

Kimberly Tyson, Program Manager
Embryo Adoption Awareness Center
(970) 663-6799 
                               Nightlight Christian Adoptions - Embryo Adoption 

 
 
 
Supported by grant # 5EAAPA94100-04-00 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  The contents are soley the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Department.
The Miracle Teabag:
Stem Cells in a pack help stroke victim to talk again 
 
Doctors have used a revolutionary stem cell treatment to restore the power of speech for a stroke victim.

Walter Bast also regained the use of his right arm after the operation to place a 'teabag' of drug-producing stem cells in his brain.

Speaking a week after the operation  -  the first of its kind in the world  -  he said: 'I feel a lucky guy.'
 
 FYI
In July the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is hosting the    22nd Annual In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer Conference
 
July 12 -15, 2009
Four Seasons Biltmore
Santa Barbara, CA
 
For more information visit the UCLA web site.
 
 
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NEW DISPOSITION BROCHURE AVAILABLE
Disposition Brochure
Contact Sarah at 970-663-6799
to learn more about how to get copies of this brochure to use with your patients.